Achieving High Availability at the Application Level in the Cloud

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 778-785

  Kanso, Li ^a   Lemieux, Yves ^a  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cloud middleware; configuration generation; HA as a service; High availability (HA); REST architecture; runtime upgrade; state aware applications

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MIDDLEWARES; CONFIGURATION GENERATION; HIGH AVAILABILITY; HIGH-AVAILABILITY; HIGH-AVAILABILITY AS A SERVICE; REST ARCHITECTURE; RUNTIME UPGRADE; RUNTIMES; STATE-AWARE APPLICATION;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 85184842776     PISSN: 21596182     EISSN: 21596190     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2013.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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