Introducing virtual execution environments for application lifecycle management and SLA-driven resource distribution within service providers

Proceedings - 2009 8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 211-218

  Goiri, Ínigo ^a   Julià, Ferran ^a   Ejarque, Jorge ^a   De Palol, Marc ^a   Badia, Rosa M ^a   Guitart, Jordi ^a   Torres, Jordi ^a  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION-SPECIFIC; EUROPEAN PROJECT; LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REDUCING COSTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATOR; RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SELF-ADAPTIVE CAPABILITY; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SERVICE PROVIDER; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL EXECUTION; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COST REDUCTION; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; OCEAN CURRENTS; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 70449431500     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NCA.2009.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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