Surgient this month is taking its virtual management and automation software out of the lab. The vendor, which made its start with tools to quickly set up and tear down virtual test environments, is ...

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Provisioning resources to a wide-spread and diverse user community can be a tedious administrative task. A proposed standard, the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) 1.0, is supposed to ease ...

In this paper, the authors propose an optimized version of the FCFS scheduling algorithm to address the major challenges of task scheduling in cloud. The incoming tasks are grouped on the basis of ...

Modern cloud applications employ a plethora of components and XaaS offerings that need to be configured during provisioning. Due to increased heterogeneity, complexity is growing and existing ...