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See the latest white papers on how cloud computing and cloud services have transformed the IT industry, from data center services to virtualization, software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a service and more.
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The Forrester Wave: Information-as-a-Service, Q1 2008
Forrester evaluated leading enterprise Information-as-a-Service (IaaS) vendors across 94 criteria and found that BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, and Red Hat have established leadership positions, thanks to their IaaS capabilities, breadth of focus, and strong product and corporate strategy. BEA Systems and Oracle were the only vendors that topped all IaaS...
Provided By Forrester Research
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Three Basics For Success In The Music Industry
The music industry is full of talent that may never find success. It is unfortunate that it may take years to get a record deal, even if you're awesome! And in the independent music world, it still takes hard work to succeed, even with the increased amount of opportunities for...
Provided By DiscoveryArticles.com
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The Grid, Cloud Computing and Our Manycore Future
Introducing the data center cloud into the picture adds new dimensions to the process of problem solving. Small teams of collaborators or large communities that share a common interest will be able to create Virtual Organizations (VOs) using cloud services to set up shared data and application spaces. The process...
Provided By Indiana University
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Notice To Tenant Lowering Rent
Because of competition you have decided to lower the rent. Then you must inform this good news to your tenant. Here is a template that will help you out in writing a letter to tenant.
Provided By Best Sample Letters
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Reapplying For A Job After Rejection
You've found your dream job at your dream company. You apply. Maybe you even land an interview. What you don't land is the job. Does this mean you'll never be an employee at The Company of Your Dreams, Inc.? Far from it. Too many job seekers react to a single...
Provided By Yahoo!
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Fire Up Your Post-Firing Job Search
Finding another job after you've been fired is a matter of direction and selection, not rejection and dejection. The best way to maintain a positive attitude during such a search is not to blow smoke. Instead, do things that will really improve your odds of finding a job. This paper...
Provided By Monster
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A Comparison of Stream-Oriented High-Availability Algorithms
Recently, significant efforts have focused on developing novel data-processing systems to support a new class of applications that commonly require sophisticated and timely processing of high-volume data streams. Early work in stream processing has primarily focused on stream-oriented languages and resource-constrained, one-pass query-processing. High availability, an increasingly important goal for...
Provided By Brown University
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Inside Look At The London Music Industry
While financial and sales figures can give a quantitative demonstration of the success of London's music industry, it is somewhat more difficult to get to grips with why it is so successful. To give an explanation of why London's music industry continues to flourish is not as simple as undertaking...
Provided By HELIUM
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The Legacy Of Sega In The Video Game Industry
There was a time most known that Sega was at one point making video game consoles. The 1st system Sega made that became known was the Sega Master System. Its goal was to compete with the NES during the 8-bit Era. That system failed to put a dent into what...
Provided By HELIUM
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Time Management - Create More Time Every Day
Time - the most precious of resources. It can not be increased nor recreated when lost. A finite resource that is delivered in equal installments of 24 hours each day. Given time is a fixed commodity; we must improve at getting more done in less time. So.... what can you...
Provided By 1888articles.com
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Constructing and Querying Peer-to-Peer Warehouses of XML Resources
This paper presents KADOP, a distributed infrastructure for warehousing XML resources in a peer-to-peer framework. KADOP allows users to build a shared, distributed repository of resources such as XML documents, semantic information about such documents, Web services, and collections of such items. KADOP leverages several existing technologies and models: it...
Provided By French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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A Positive Outlook On Job Search
No one likes the experience of being terminated or laid off from a job. Even if it was a relief to finally be out of a bad work situation, the prospect of looking for that next job brings on lots of emotions, most of which are negative: possible failure, fear...
Provided By Peter K. Studner
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Letter To Former Tenant Enclosing Refund Of Security Or Cleaning Deposit
This letter accompanies a security or cleaning deposit refund check sent to your former tenants.
Provided By Best Sample Letters
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Referral Letter Former Tenant
Has your former tenant asked for the reference? Then use this template to give recommendation of your former tenant's new landlord.
Provided By Best Sample Letters
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The Myths And Realities Of Work Force Training And Education
Yes, there's a risk to hiring and training employees, but the same holds true when you buy a new machine. Although you may feel you have more control over a machine, as an inanimate object, than a person, you actually don't. In both cases you are gambling on their potential....
Provided By Bresnahan Group
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Espresso Machine
An Espresso machine is a type of coffee maker used specifically for the Italian style coffer. Espresso machines can be quite expensive, and this paper will give you more information about them so that you can make an informed purchase decision and learn where to buy them. An espresso machine...
Provided By Interaction Media Group
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Epicor Software Case Study: VMI Americas
VMI Americas manufactures machines used in tire assembly and industrial rubber processing. Weighing up to 8 tons, a VMI tire-making machine can produce up to 1,000 tires daily. Worldwide, VMI works with virtually every tire manufacturer, including The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Michelin Group, and Cooper Tire and Rubber....
Provided By Epicor Software
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Notice Of Termination Of Lease
Use this template to give notice to your tenant of termination of lease. It notifies the tenant that the lease period is about over.
Provided By 4hb.com
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Lease Abstraction
Lease abstraction provides summarized information regarding existing leases for a property. It summarizes information such as lease start date, lease termination date, renewal options, rental rate, escalation clauses, space included, parking rights, first right of refusal, signage options and other special provisions. Lease abstraction is an essential component of due...
Provided By O'Connor & Associates
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ProofMark System Technical Overview: Cryptographic Data Integrity Seal & Trusted Timestamp Issuance, Preservation and Validation
ProofSpace provides businesses with innovative solutions to prove the integrity of their electronic records. To meet the demands of different organizations and computing environments, ProofSpace delivers a variety of customized data integrity applications, the basic building block of which is company's cornerstone technology, the ProofMark System. The purpose of this...
Provided By ProofSpace
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VMware Case Study: Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University is a premier business school ranked in the top 25 nationally according to U.S. News and World Report. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University wanted to decrease server deployment time for faculty special projects; reduce amount of physical hardware; reduce...
Provided By VMware
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IBM Moves Toward a 'Cloud Computing' Infrastructure
Cloud Computing, as the term is popularly used, refers to the delivery of a range of IT capabilities (Such As Infrastructure Applications) as an externally sourced service. Since IBM does not provide Blue Cloud as a set of external infrastructure services, Gartner does not consider Blue Cloud itself to be...
Provided By Gartner
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Education Services Outsourcing
'Edu Success', one of the educational organizations in the US, forayed into tutoring in 2005, as a private & supplemental education services provider, with one-on-one Math tutoring. Hiring local tutors would have meant higher salaries, and thus reduced profit margin. Edu Success decided to operate as an online tutoring provider....
Provided By TCY Learning Solutions
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Exploit these online resources to promote healthier, lower-stress special-needs traveling
Over the past decade, the Internet has utterly transformed the travel industry. A wealth of online resources has allowed both business and holiday travelers to make savvier, more cost-effective travel decisions than ever before. In this chapter download from Sandy Berger's Great Age Guide to Online Travel, discover Internet...Provided By Addison Wesley Professional
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How The Record Industry Could Get Its Groove Back
Due to advances in technology in recent years, the record industry has undergone massive changes at super-sonic speed in a relatively short period of time. Is it any wonder there have been growing pains? It is understandable that there have been questions, doubts, and concerns for both the music industry...
Provided By Associated Content
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Comparison of Software Quality Under Perpetual Licensing and Software as a Service
Software is available through a number of different licensing models such as the commonly used perpetual licensing model and a relatively new licensing model called Software as a Service (SaaS). There are several differences between SaaS and perpetual licensing. SaaS licensing offers software using a subscription model, whereas perpetual licensing...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Hera Chooses Sun to Assure Excellent Services
The Hera Group wanted to assure the highest level of service using the most advanced technical solutions and provision data processing applications without service interruptions by using appropriate hardware and software solutions. A leading utility company in Italy has put its trust in the capability of Sun Microsystems to complete...
Provided By Oracle
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Cloud Control With Distributed Rate Limiting
Today's cloud-based services integrate globally distributed resources into seamless computing platforms. Provisioning and accounting for the resource usage of these Internet-scale applications presents a challenging technical problem. This paper presents the design and implementation of distributed rate limiters, which work together to enforce a global rate limit across traffic aggregates...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Take a holistic approach to common systems administration problems
Build a solid framework for thinking about system administration (SA) problems rather than simply mastering narrow how-to solutions to particular admin problems, and you'll be able to solve problems every time they appear, regardless of the operating system, brand of computer, or type of environment. In this chapter download...Provided By Addison Wesley Professional
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Data Storage Archiving White Paper
The rapidly increasing quantities of data generated in the last couple of years, in particular the electronic data, meant that a larger amount of data must be archived. Businesses recently noted that the time it takes to double the data volume has steadily decreased. Today, it takes about less than...
Provided By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Trust, Security And Governance In Cloud Computing
One of the most important aspect refers to security: while some cloud computing security issues are inherited from the solutions adopted to create such services, many new security questions that are particular to these solutions also arise, including those related to how the services are organized and which kind of...
Provided By Bhagwant University
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Aspects Of Security In Cloud Computing
Cloud services will eliminate the need to install and manage client rich applications and further its scope in all the private sector would increase thus it would help the company to reduce high cost infrastructure and maintenance cost. In this paper, the authors are surveying the security related issues in...
Provided By Creative Commons
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Cloud Security Issues
In past three decades, the world of computation has changed from centralized (client-server not web-based) to distributed systems and now the authors are getting back to the virtual centralization (Cloud Computing). Location of data and processes makes the difference in the realm of computation. On one hand, an individual has...
Provided By Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Cloud Computing: Issues and Challenges
Cloud computing has recently emerged as a buzz word in the distributed computing community. Many believe that Cloud is going to reshape the IT industry as a revolution. Many believe that Cloud will reshape the entire ICT industry as a revolution. In this paper, the authors aim to pinpoint the...
Provided By Curtin University of Technology
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Storm Clouds Rising: Security Challenges for IaaS Cloud Computing
Securing the authors' digital assets has become increasingly challenging as their reliance on rapidly evolving technologies continues to grow. The security perimeter in computing has changed from a well-defined boundary that was relatively easy to identify and defend, to an elastic boundary that is constantly changing and for which the...
Provided By University of Calgary
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Enabling Self Auditing for Mobile Clients in Cloud Computing
Cloud is a rising technology that works over the Internet and it permits the user to urge the service from anyplace and at any time with pay per usage theme. Cloud computing makes the business environment easier by offering huge storage capacity, processing power and infrastructure with the elastic demand....
Provided By Adhiyamaan College of Engineering
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Improving Consumer Satisfaction Through Building an Allocation Cloud
Consumer satisfaction depends on the quality of service. Services with high quality usually lead to high cost. Due to the budget limitation, consumers tend to acquire services with lowest cost. Feasible request allocation can improve service quality or reduce service cost. Some request allocation algorithms need the coordination with service...
Provided By IARIA
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Who Can You Trust in the Cloud? A Review of Security Issues Within Cloud Computing
In this paper, the authors discuss security issues with Cloud Based Computing and Cloud Operating Systems. Cloud computing has recently experienced a significant increase in popularity as major companies such as Google and Microsoft have started to release cloud based products, advertise the use of the cloud, and even release...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Security Issues on Cloud Computing
The Cloud Computing concept offers dynamically scalable resources provisioned as a service over the Internet. Economic benefits are the main driver for the Cloud, since it promises the reduction of capital expenditure and operational expenditure. In order for this to become reality, however, there are still some challenges to be...
Provided By Cornell University
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Security Issues in Cloud Computing and Countermeasures
Cloud computing technology is a new concept of providing dramatically scalable and virtualized resources, bandwidth, software and hardware on demand to consumers. Consumers can typically requests cloud services via a web browser or web service. Using cloud computing, consumers can safe cost of hardware deployment, software licenses and system maintenance....
Provided By Sir Smith
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The Role Of Cloud Computing In Sharing Of Information Resources Among Digital Libraries In New Digital Era
The evolution of traditional library collections to digital or virtual collections has given new dimension. The Internet, Web environment and associated sophisticated tools have given a new dynamic role to play and serve the new information based society in better ways than previously. Because of the powerful features of Web...
Provided By Bharathiar University
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Estimation of Performance and Availability of Cloud Application Servers Through External Clients
This paper investigates two aspects of the QoS offered by some cloud providers on the Internet, the availability and the dedicated capacity in terms of how well a user process is isolated from other users of the same application server instance. By using standard components and software utilities, a small...
Provided By IARIA
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Dynamic Request Management Algorithms for Web-Based Services in Cloud Computing
Providers of Web-based services can take advantage of many convenient features of cloud computing infrastructures, but they still have to implement request management algorithms that are able to face sudden peaks of requests. The authors consider distributed algorithms implemented by front-end servers to dispatch and redirect requests among application servers....
Provided By University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Building a Delay-Tolerant Cloud for Mobile Data
Mobile data usage is on a tremendous rise, due not only to increasing number of users but also to an increase in the number of applications that transfer data over the network. Moreover, applications for sharing, sensing, and collaboration have become more popular, causing significant amounts of data to be...
Provided By NEC Laboratories
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Automated Clustering of VMs for Scalable Cloud Monitoring and Management
The size of modern datacenters supporting cloud computing represents a major challenge in terms of monitoring and management of system resources. Available solutions typically consider every Virtual Machine (VM) as a black box each with independent characteristics and face scalability issues by reducing the number of monitoring resource samples, considering...
Provided By University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Different Solutions of MySQL in the Cloud - Security and Possibilities
Cloud computing is a good way to raise productivity of offered service without investments into new infrastructure, training of the personnel or software acquisition. This technology expands potential possibilities of existing information systems. In recent years cloud computing grew from good business concept to one of the most demanded industry...
Provided By Riftian
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A Survey on Network Security Issues in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing in a new technology the authors can use third party facilities and resources as a service to perform out computing needs. Cloud computing can offer a verity of services including hosted services over internet. Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient on demand network access to a...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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Security Architecture for Mobile Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a remote, internet-based computing, which provides shared resources, software, and information to computers and other devices such as mobile, PDA on demand. Cloud computing has become another buzzword to its tremendous business prospects. On the other hand cloud computing application on mobile internet are developed frequently, its...
Provided By Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University
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Using Synchronised Tag Clouds for Browsing Data Collections
Tag clouds have become a popular means of visualising and browsing data, especially in Web 2.0 applications. The authors show how they can be used to provide flexible and intuitive interfaces to web search services over data collections by using multiple synchronised tag clouds to browse that data. A data...
Provided By Springer Healthcare
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Exploiting Tag Clouds for Database Browsing and Querying
Querying and browsing of databases is a task exclusively done by experts that have mastered the query language and are familiar with a database's schema. The authors show how tag clouds can be used alongside more traditional query languages and data visualisation techniques as a means for browsing and querying...
Provided By Springer Healthcare
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Using Tag Clouds to Promote Community Awareness in Research Environments
Tag clouds have become a popular visualisation scheme for presenting an overview of the content of document collections. The authors describe how they have adapted tag clouds to provide visual summaries of researchers' activities and use these to promote awareness within a research group. Each user is associated with a...
Provided By ETH Zurich
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A Secure Database System Using Homomorphic Encryption Schemes
Cloud computing emerges as an attractive solution that can be delegated to store and process confidential data. However, several security risks are encountered with such a system as the securely encrypted data should be decrypted before processing them. Therefore, the decrypted data is susceptible to reading and alterations. As a...
Provided By IARIA
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The Multi-Tenant Data Placement Problem
With the advent of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployment model, managing operational costs becomes more and more important for providers of hosted software. The cost for hosting and providing a service is directly proportional to the operational margin that can be achieved when running a SaaS business. Possible avenues for reducing...
Provided By IARIA
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Just in Time Clouds: Enabling Highly-Elastic Public Clouds Over Low Scale Amortized Resources
In this paper, the authors address the problem of capacity planning for the provision of cloud data centers. Inspired by the Toyota's Just in Time (JiT) philosophy, they propose an alternative approach to assemble the computational infrastructure of a cloud computing provider using resources whose costs have already been absorbed...
Provided By University of Camerino
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Managing Cloud Migration Contract Restructuring and Retained IT
The authors continually see companies restructure their IT outsourcing contracts with traditional IT providers as part of their business transformation programs to create a global delivery model and drive cost optimization. Though such projects have created value for some companies, for others they have failed to meet expectations. Despite the...
Provided By PW Internet Investments Pty Ltd
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What are You Paying for? Performance Benchmarking for Infrastructure-as-a-Service Offerings
As part of the Cloud Computing stack, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings become more and more widespread. They allow users to deploy and run virtual machines in remote data centers (the Cloud), paying by use. However, performance specifications for virtual machines provided by providers are not coherent and sometimes not even sufficient...
Provided By Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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What's Needed for Cloud Computing?: Focus on Networking and WAN Optimization
Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true - cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry, but it does hold real potential for new types of...
Provided By Enterprise Strategy Group
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Countering Wrapping Attack on XML Signature in SOAP Message for Cloud Computing
It is known that the exchange of information between web applications is done by means of the SOAP protocol. Securing this protocol is obviously a vital issue for any computer network. However, when it comes to cloud computing systems, the sensitivity of this issue rises, as the clients of system,...
Provided By Eastern Mediterranean University
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On the Amplitude of the Elasticity Offered by Public Cloud Computing Providers
The cloud computing paradigm allows for the provision of Information Technology infrastructure in the form of a service that clients acquire on-demand and paying only for the amount of service that they actually consume. In particular, considering that the \"Area\" of a service request is given by the product between...
Provided By University of Camerino
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The New Building Blocks for IT: OpenStack, Continuous Delivery, and Devops
The key building blocks of a modern IT organization include a highly flexible infrastructure, an automated software delivery life cycle, and a devops-driven IT organization. These capabilities are essential to ensuring that IT remains relevant in an era of continuous change to customer-facing services and automated business operations. This report...
Provided By GigaOm