TransCom: A virtual disk-based cloud computing platform for heterogeneous services

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 46-59

  Zhou, Yuezhi ^a   Zhang, Yaoxue ^b   Xie, Yinglian ^c   Zhang, Hui ^d   Yang, Laurence T ^e   Min, Geyong ^f  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^d CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centralized management; cloud computing; distributed platforms; heterogeneous services; virtual disks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; EXPERIMENTS; MAINTENANCE;

APPLICATION SOFTWARES; CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT; CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS; DISTRIBUTED PLATFORMS; DISTRIBUTING COMPUTING; ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT; HETEROGENEOUS SERVICES; VIRTUAL DISK;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84899995713     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2013.122613.120358     Document Type: Article

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