The ever-increasing operational cost of geographically distributed datacenters has become a critical issue for cloud service providers. In order to cut the electricity cost of geographically distributed datacenters, several workload management schemes have been proposed, such as Electricity price-aware InteR-datacenter load balancing (EIR), which reduces the electricity cost of active servers b...

0 Abstract The increasing popularity of cloud storage services has led many companies to migrate their data into clouds for high availability whilst saving infrastructure constructions. Within the last few years, the architectures of most major cloud storage providers have evolved from single data center to multiple data centers, across different geo-locations. This architecture help improve th...

As demonstrated by the emergence of paradigms like fog computing [1] or cloud-of-clouds [2], the landscape of third-party computation is moving beyond straightforward single datacenter-based cloud computing. However, building applications that execute efficiently across data-centers and clouds is tedious due to the variety of communication abstractions provided, and variations in latencies with...

For high performance computing, cloud services offer highly scaleable infrastructures on demand. Without requiring a great deal of maintenance and financial resources, which a datacenter would need, it is possible to obtain a huge set of computing instances from, e.g., the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (Amazon EC2). The downsides of cloud computing are that the set of computing instances is ar...

Network virtualization with combined control of network and IT resources enables network designs for end-to-end cloud services with latency and availability guarantees. Even though providing such QoE guarantees is of high importance for cloud services, it is mostly not possible today if the services traverse different domains. To addresses this problem, firstly, we introduce novel resilient des...

Cloud services are becoming increasingly globalized and data-center workloads are expanding exponentially. GPU and FPGA-based clouds have illustrated improvements in power and performance by accelerating compute-intensive workloads. ASIC-based clouds are a promising way to optimize the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a given datacenter computation (e.g. YouTube transcoding) by reducing both en...