An important factor in the successful deployment of federated web-services-based business activities will be the ability to guarantee reliable distributed operation and execution....
An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
In this paper, we describe two mission critical applications currently deployed by Telecom Italia in the Operations Support System domains. The first one called "Network Neut...
Background: Complex biological database systems have become key computational tools used daily by scientists and researchers. Many of these systems must be capable of executing on...
Marko Srdanovic, Ulf Schenk, Michael Schwieger, Fa...
Virtualization has been rapidly expanding its applications in numerous server and desktop environments to improve the utilization and manageability of physical systems. Such prolif...