Towards automated business-driven indication and mitigation of VM Sprawl in Cloud supply chains

Proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1062-1065

  Lindner, Maik ^b   McDonald, Fiona ^b   McLarnon, Barry ^b   Robinson, Philip ^a  

^a The Concourse   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Automation; Indicators; Mitigation; Monitoring; Virtual Machine; Virtualisation; VM Sprawl

Indexed keywords

BULLWHIP EFFECTS; DATA CENTERS; MITIGATION; MITIGATION STRATEGY; PROBLEM AREAS; PROTOTYPICAL IMPLEMENTATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALISATION; VM SPRAWL;

AUTOMATION; CHAINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 80052756561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INM.2011.5990505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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