Modeling cloud failure data: A case study of the virtual computing lab

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 8-14

  Nagappan, Meiyappan ^a   Peeler, Aaron ^b   Vouk, Mladen ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud computing; software reliability and availability; vcl production software failures

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; FAILURE DATA; HIGHER EDUCATION; LOG FILE; RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY; SOFTWARE STACKS; VCL PRODUCTION SOFTWARE FAILURES; VIRTUAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTANCE EDUCATION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79960582234     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985500.1985503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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