Dynamically scaling applications in the cloud

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-52

  Vaquero, Luis M ^a   Rodero Merino, Luis ^b   Buyya, Rajkumar ^c  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIV LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Scalability

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SCALABILITY; CLOUD SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING SOLUTION; RESEARCH EFFORTS; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING; SCALABILITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79551491370     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1925861.1925869     Document Type: Article

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