Variations in performance and scalability when migrating n-tier applications to different clouds

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 73-80

  Jayasinghe, Deepal ^a   Malkowski, Simon ^a   Wang, Qingyang ^a   Li, Jack ^a   Xiong, Pengcheng ^a   Pu, Calton ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Clouds; Datacenter; EC2; Emulab; IaaS; N tier; Open Cirrus; Performance; RUBBoS; Scalability

Indexed keywords

DATACENTER; EC2; EMULAB; IAAS; N-TIER; OPEN CIRRUS; PERFORMANCE; RUBBOS;

BENCHMARKING; CLOUDS; RESEARCH; SCALABILITY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TESTBEDS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 80053169350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2011.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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