Network information centers (NICs): is there one on your horizon?

Server consolidation and application consolidation through virtualization are key performance optimizations in cloud-based service delivery industry. In this paper, we argue that it is important for both cloud consumers and cloud providers to understand ...

As server consolidations based on the virtualization techniques become popular and cloud services continue to grow rapidly, more and more data centers are being built to accommodate a number of virtual clusters running various workloads. Since these ...

Host virtualization allows data centers to live migrate an entire virtual Machine (VM) to support data center maintenance, disaster avoidance and workload balancing. Live VM Migration can consume nearly the entire bandwidth for memory intensive ...