A basic building block of cloud computing is virtualization. Virtual machines (VMs) encapsulate a user’s computing environment and efficiently isolate...
Data center power consumption is growing to unprecedented levels: the EPA estimates U.S. data centers will consume 100 billion kilowatt hours annually...
Large-scale network services can consist of tens of thousands of machines running thousands of unique software configurations spread across hundreds o...
Multilevel caching, common in many storage configurations, introduces new challenges to traditional cache management: data must be kept in the appropr...
Streamline is a stream-based OS communication subsystem that spans from peripheral hardware to userspace processes. It improves performance of I/O-bou...
