Trends and Challenges in Cloud Datacenters

IEEE Cloud Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-20

  Bilal, Kashif ^a   Malik, Saif Ur Rehman ^a   Khan, Samee U ^a   Zomaya, Albert Y ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cloud; cloud computing; cloud data center; resource utilization; resources consolidation techniques; thermal awareness; virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLOUD DATA CENTERS; CONSOLIDATION TECHNIQUES; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; THERMAL AWARENESS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84941201000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23256095     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCC.2014.26     Document Type: Article

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