A performance comparison of container-based technologies for the Cloud

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 175-182

  Kozhirbayev, Zhanibek ^a   Sinnott, Richard O ^b  

^a L N GUMILYOV EURASIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Container based virtualization technologies; Performance comparison

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES; CLOUD PROVIDERS; COLLABORATION TOOL; DESIGN OF THE EXPERIMENT; LITERATURE REVIEWS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84991325429     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2016.08.025     Document Type: Article

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