Server instances, also known as virtual machines (VMs), with various computing and storage capabilities (i.e. different combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking), are commonly offered by cloud computing service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Microsoft,...

Lifecycle management of digital media objects such as online videos is a challenging problem. While media objects are strong sources of revenue to content providers they also have limited shelf-life, influence each other in terms of customer choices, are data-intensive and require large...

Online storage service providers such as Amazon S3 grant a way for companies, particularly startups, to avoid spending resources on maintaining their own in-house storage infrastructure and thereby allowing them to focus on their core business activities. These providers however follow a fixed,...