Gregoris Mentzas

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1. Introduction In present times, there is massive data generation from a constantly and exponentially increasing number of edge devices, such as wearables, smartphones, smart cards, sensors, GPS-enabled devices, mobile phones, and other IoT devices. The IDC Data Age 2025 report on “The Digitization of the World: From Edge to Core” forecasts that the total data to be generated by the year 2025 is estimated to reach an astounding 175 zettabytes—a tenfold increase from 2016 levels.

1,2, Yiannis Verginadis1,3, Nikos Papageorgiou1,2, 1,2, Dimitris Apostolou1,4 & Gregoris Mentzas1,2 Journal of Cloud Computing volume 10, Article number: 45 (2021) Cite this article 272 Accesses 4 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract While a multitude of cloud vendors exist today offering flexible application hosting services, the application adaptation capabilities provided in terms of autoscaling are rather limited.