Early observations on the performance of Windows Azure

HPDC 2010 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 367-376

  Hill, Zach ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Mao, Ming ^a   Ruiz Alvarez, Arkaitz ^a   Humphrey, Marty ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Cloud storage services; Scalability; Virtual machines; Windows Azure

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DESIGN; CLOUD COMPUTING; CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES; CLOUD PROVIDERS; CLOUD STORAGE SERVICES; COMMODITY HARDWARE; COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; IS PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; POTENTIAL USERS; RUNNING-IN; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; STARTUP TIME; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SCALABILITY;

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

EID: 78650005669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1851476.1851532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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