Dynamic scaling of web applications in a virtualized cloud computing environment

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, ICEBE 2009; IEEE Int. Workshops - AiR 2009; SOAIC 2009; SOKMBI 2009; ASOC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 281-286

  Chieu, Trieu C ^a   Mohindra, Ajay ^a   Karve, Alexei A ^a   Segal, Alla ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Scalability; Virtual machine; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTING MODEL; DYNAMIC SCALING; IT RESOURCES; MANAGEMENT COSTS; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; ON-DEMAND; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; THRESHOLD NUMBERS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WEB APPLICATION; WEB SERVERS;

BALANCING; COST REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SCALABILITY; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77950987607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEBE.2009.45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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