Cloud Hardware and Software
Abstract
In their quest to provide reliable, low-cost services, cloud service providers exploit the latest computing, communication, and software technologies to offer a highly available, easy to use, and efficient cloud computing infrastructure.
The chapter examines the challenges and benefits of virtualization and containerization. The goal of virtualization is to support portability, improve efficiency, increase reliability, and to shield the user from the complexity of the system. Containers are based on operating-system-level virtualization.
An in-depth discussion of cloud hardware systems includes a presentation of Warehouse Scale Computers (WSCs) and their performance analysis. Then the focus ...
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