Resource Management in Virtualized Clouds

Resource management is of paramount importance in achieving high performance in Cloud environments. Different from traditional parallel and distributed systems, resource virtualization is a key feature in Cloud systems. Although researchers have been developing various strategies and techniques to address the resource management issues in virtualized Clouds, they, as this spThis special issue aims to report the latest scientific advances in resource management techniques for virtualized Clouds, especially on the topics including VM consolidation strategies, scheduling techniques, techniques for managing various types of virtualized resource, and VM management for various types of application. This issue received 47 high quality submissions. After the rigorous review process, 23 papers were accepted in this issue, documenting the relevant research from China, Spain, USA, Australia, Korea, Mexico, Luxembourg, Russia, France, and so forth.