... books, Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Computing (Wiley, 2004), Virtual Computing: Concept, Design and Evaluation (Kluwer,2001), and Active Middleware Services (Kluwer, 2000).Salim ... time,escalating demand, growing volumes of data, and multi-national services aredriving the proliferation of technologies and platforms, and creating IT envi-ronments that require tens of thousands of ... adjust and adapt automatically basedon business policies. It addresses the process of how IT infrastructures aredesigned, managed, and maintained. And it calls for standardizing, integrat-ing, and...