The Case for Content Search of VM Clouds
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Wolfgang Richter, Glenn Ammons, Jan Harkes, Adam Goode · 2010
The success of cloud computing can lead to large, centralized collections of virtual machine (VM) images. The ability to interactively search these VM images at a high semantic level emerges as an important capability. This paper examines the opportunities and challenges in creating such a search capability, and presents early evidence of its feasibility.