SLA-driven elastic cloud hosting provider

Proceedings of the 18th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 111-118

  Oriol Fito J ^a   Goiri, Íñigo ^a   Guitart, Jordi ^a  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Resources outsourcing; Service level agreement; Web hosting providers

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; ECONOMIC MODELS; EMERGING COMPUTING PARADIGM; END-USERS; HIGH AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVENUE MAXIMIZATION; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; WEB APPLICATION; WEB HOSTING; WEB SERVERS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMIZATION; OUTSOURCING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 77952597023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2010.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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