Ligang He; Laurence T. Yang; Zhihui Du; Florin Pop

“ 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 special issue shows, still face many new research challenges. ”

“ W. Ai et al. from Hunan University in China proposed a novel metric to measure the elasticity of virtualized resources. For this special issue, we are able to select excellent papers providing a range of methods on the theme of the special issue. ”