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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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Having Centralized Monitoring as a Service in Cloud Computing: A Study of Performance Aspects
A Centralized Monitoring as a Service (CMaaS) is a desired and necessary feature to be included in cloud computing. One of the concerns in having CMaaS from both user and provider's perspectives would be that of performance implications. Carrying out a performance analysis thus, becomes an important task before suggesting...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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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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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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King County Creates Shared Infrastructure on FlexPod With Microsoft Private Cloud and Saves $700,000 Annually
Located on Puget Sound in the state of Washington and covering 2,134 square miles, King County is nearly twice as large as the average county in the United States. Their challenges are to migrate departments to a standard, virtualized environment that is more cost-effective, secure, and reliable and improve and...
Provided By NetApp
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Application performance management is changing; are you ready?
APM solutions have been in use since 1996. However, recent trends such as Agile Development, data center virtualization, and private and public cloud computing have changed the environment. New APM solutions are required – solutions that many legacy vendors of second-generation APM aren’t able to meet. Learn how your organization...
Provided By Dell Software
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Auditeur: A Mobile-Cloud Service Platform for Acoustic Event Detection on Smartphones
Auditeur is a general-purpose, energy-efficient, and context-aware acoustic event detection platform for Smartphones. It enables app developers to have their app register for and get notified on a wide variety of acoustic events. Auditeur is backed by a cloud service to store user contributed sound clips and to generate an...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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CrowdAtlas: Self-Updating Maps for Cloud and Personal Use
The inaccuracy of manually created digital road maps is a persistent problem, despite their high economic value. The authors present CrowdAtlas, which automates map update based on people's travels, either individually or crowdsourced. Its mobile navigation app detects significant portions of GPS traces that do not conform to the existing...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Adoption Analysis of Cloud Computing Services
Making decisions for IT outsourcing is always a challenge for companies worldwide, and cloud computing has been growing as an alternative. This paper analyzes the viewpoint of IT managers about the adoption of cloud computing services. It confronts the literature review on the main features of cloud computing with the...
Provided By Academic Journals
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Perils of Cloud Based Enterprise Resource Planning
Leading software enterprises are heavily investing in cloud infrastructure for the delivery of cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) services. Cloud computing provides data storage and software services to the clients. ERP combines all departments and functions across an enterprise onto a single machine that can serve all those different department's...
Provided By World Science Publisher
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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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Cloud Computing Security Requirements and Solutions: A Systematic Literature Review
Cloud Computing (CC) is an evolving term or paradigm, implying the use of configurable computing resources (hardware, software and network) with its purpose to offer a service to a consumer. By enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access, its underlying business model contains at least two actors. A cloud provides a...
Provided By University of Tuzla
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LogBase: A Scalable Logstructured Database System in the Cloud
Numerous applications such as financial transactions (e.g., stock trading) are write-heavy in nature. The shift from reads to writes in web applications has also been accelerating in recent years. Write-ahead-logging is a common approach for providing recovery capability while improving performance in most storage systems. However, the separation of log...
Provided By University of Calgary
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Cloud-Based Augmentation for Mobile Devices: Motivation, Taxonomies, and Open Challenges
Recently, Cloud-based Mobile Augmentation (CMA) approaches have gained remarkable ground from academia and industry. CMA is the state-of-the-art mobile augmentation model that employs resource-rich clouds to increase, enhance, and optimize computing capabilities of mobile devices aiming at execution of resource-intensive mobile applications. Augmented mobile devices envision to perform extensive computations...
Provided By University of Maine at Presque Isle
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Benefits of Consolidating and Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint in a Private Cloud Environment
More and more organizations are moving to the cloud because of the many benefits cloud computing offers in terms of cost, scalability and ease of access but many organizations are still wary about the security and privacy of public cloud solutions. Instead, these companies are opting for private cloud solutions....
Provided By EMC
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Navaho Partners With Cisco to Capture Virtual Image Storage Market
Navaho is a leading European cloud services provider, delivering a range of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for small- and medium-sized enterprises. Their business challenges were to take early and solid lead in developing cloud-based digital trust services,...
Provided By Cisco
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A CCRA based Mass Customization Development for Cloud Services
With the incredible popularity of cloud computing, the adoption of Mass Customization (MC) is significant for building a cloud computing system that could provide services provisioning in a manner of multi-tenancy. Because of lack of a standard architecture that supports MC development for cloud services, the existing metadata or model...
Provided By Wuhan Institute of Technology Network and Information Center
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Reporting an Experience on Design and Implementation of e-Health Systems on Azure Cloud
Electronic Health (e-Health) technology has brought the world with significant transformation from traditional paper-based medical practice to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-based systems for automatic management (storage, processing, and archiving) of information. Traditionally e-Health systems have been designed to operate within stovepipes on dedicated networks, physical computers, and locally managed...
Provided By Australian National University
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Cloud Manufacturing: Drivers, Current Status, and Future Trends
Cloud Manufacturing (CM) refers to a customer-centric manufacturing model that exploits on-demand access to a shared collection of diversified and distributed manufacturing resources to form temporary, reconfigurable production lines which enhance efficiency, reduce product lifecycle costs, and allow for optimal resource loading in response to variable-demand customer generated tasking. The...
Provided By Georgia Institute of Technology
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A Technique of Formal Security Modeling in Autonomic Cloud Computing Environment
As clouds are complex, large-scale, and heterogeneous distributed systems management of their resources is a challenging task. It requires co-optimization at multiple layers (infrastructure, platform, and application) exhibiting autonomic properties. Autonomic systems exhibit the ability of self-monitoring, self-repairing, and self-optimizing by constantly sensing them and tuning their performance. The notions...
Provided By WSDOT
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Client-Independence as the Critical Step Towards a New Level of Cloud Computing
It is nowadays impossible to examine the modern world without picturing it as an information society. Among the most promising directions in current applicative computer science is the development of cloud computing, as a novel way of computer usage. As a natural progress of time-share systems from the 1960s to...
Provided By WSDOT
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Seven keys to managing your business critical cloud
It's widely recognized that a well-run cloud provides you with flexible, fast, inexpensive, and secure access to IT resources. It enables your IT organization to dramatically improve service quality and the efficiency of resource utilization. But, while such benefits dominate the headlines, stories of major service outages are beginning to...
Provided By HP and Intel®
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Cloud Security Challenges: Investigating Policies, Standards, and Guidelines in a Fortune 500 Organization
Cloud computing is quickly becoming pervasive in today's globally integrated networks. The cloud offers organizations opportunities to potentially deploy software and data solutions that are accessible through numerous mechanisms, in a multitude of settings, at a reduced cost with increased reliability and scalability. The increasingly pervasive and ubiquitous nature of...
Provided By University of Glamorgan
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A Survey of Data Management System for Cloud Computing: Models and Searching Methods
Cloud computing, as a new computing pattern having the capacity of sharing computing and storage, has been developed steadily and rapidly during recent years. It is selected by the famous scientific journal Technology Review published by MIT as one of the ten newly developed technologies which have changed the world....
Provided By ISSN
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Planting Parallel Program Simulation on the Cloud
The writing of efficient parallel code has always been a tedious and time-consuming process. However, the performance prediction prototype tools devised in the last decade come of age now, thanks to the availability of the almost unlimited computing power of clouds. This paper presents the practical use of mJADES, a...
Provided By University of San Francisco
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WSN Integrated Cloud Computing for N-Care System (NCS) Using Middleware Services
The number of wireless devices with powerful sensing capabilities is constantly growing. A mobile phone is an example of a device that is packed with several powerful sensors. Cloud computing is another area that been in focus over the last decade. Cloud computing can be defined as an architectural abstraction...
Provided By International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE)
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3 Dimensional Security in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). The name comes from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams. So it is emerging field...
Provided By IRD India
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To Implement SaaS Multitenant Framework Security in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing, a rapidly developing information technology, has aroused the concern of the whole world. Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information, are provided to computers and devices on-demand, like the electricity grid. Cloud computing is the product of the fusion of traditional computing technology and...
Provided By IRD India
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SunTrust Banks, Inc. Improves Access to Accurate Information
(SunTrust) is one of the leading financial services holding companies in the United States. To enable its relationship managers to quickly access information, SunTrust Banks, Inc. (SunTrust) wanted to bring the enterprise to a cloud-based solution. They chose IBM to overcome these challenges. They implemented IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud...
Provided By IBM
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A Cloud Computing Survey: Developments and Future Trends in Infrastructure as a Service Computing
Cloud computing is a recent paradigm based around the notion of delivery of resources via a service model over the Internet. Despite being a new paradigm of computation, cloud computing owes its origins to a number of previous paradigms. The term cloud computing is well defined and no longer merits...
Provided By University of SRI BATNA
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Opportunities and Challenges for Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a new way of delivering computing resources and services. Cloud computing moved away from personal computers and the individual enterprise application server to services provided by the cloud of computers. The emergence of cloud computing has made a tremendous impact on the Information Technology (IT) industry over...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Survey on Security Issues in Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is a new technology that allows organizations and individuals to share resources, information and software on-demand over the Internet. It is a new consumption, supplement and delivery model wherein resources are provided in a cost effective manner. It typically involves the use of software and hardware that are...
Provided By International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE)
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Rebalancing in a Multi-Cloud Environment
Rebalancing policies, which replace instances in lower preferred clouds with instances in higher-preferred clouds, are needed to meet these preferences. The authors present an environment that manages multi-cloud deployment rebalancing by terminating instances, in lower-preferred clouds and launching replacement instances in higher-preferred clouds to satisfy user preferences. In particular, users...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Multi Agent System-Based on Case Based Reasoning for Cloud Computing System
Cloud Computing is a new technology which use the Internet and central remote servers in order to maintain data and applications. The aim of this paper is to describe about Case Based Reasoning (CBR) which is based on Multi Agent System (MAS) and the implementation in Cloud Computing Environment to...
Provided By FUTURE UNIVERSITY-HAKODATE
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YAWL in the Cloud
In the context of the CoSeLoG project (which involves 10 Dutch municipalities), the authors realised a proof-of-concept implementation based on YAWL. The municipalities want to share a common IT infrastructure and learn from one another, but also allow for local differences. Therefore, they extended YAWL to run in a cloud-based...
Provided By Eindhoven University of Technology
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Cloud Hosting Provider Aims to Improve Service, Lower Costs With Server Upgrade
The T-Systems Central End User Services group hosts messaging and collaboration solutions, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Lync Server, and Microsoft SharePoint Server, as managed services. Hosting provider T-Systems wanted to expand cloud services for customers around the world. It chose Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V to build a flexible,...
Provided By Microsoft
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EU-Brazil Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity
EUBrazilOpenBio is a collaborative initiative addressing strategic barriers in biodiversity research by integrating open access data and user-friendly tools widely available in Brazil and Europe. The project deploys the EU-Brazil cloud-based e-infrastructure that allows the sharing of hardware, software and data on-demand. This e-Infrastructure provides access to several integrated services...
Provided By Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
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Gearing Resource-Poor Mobile Devices with Powerful Clouds: Architectures, Challenges, and Applications
Mobile cloud computing, with its promise to meet the urgent need for richer applications and services of resource-constrained mobile devices, is emerging as a new computing paradigm and has recently attracted significant attention. However, there is no clear definition and no well defined scope for mobile cloud computing due to...
Provided By University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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Cloud Immunization and Security for e-Governance Applications
Different e-Governance applications in India are using Cloud for making the services scalable, stretchable and cost effective. Starting from the IT centres being setup at Panchayat level to the State/National data centres use the Cloud to create a common infrastructure that would be accessible by all. The focus is to...
Provided By Berhampur University
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Design of Cloud Computing Based ERP Model
This ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is the information system about the management of the enterprise, which is developed on information technology and systematic management thinking, decision-making for businesses and employees to run the means to provide decision management platform, and it can integrate all resources of enterprise. The paper puts...
Provided By ISSN
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OMT-G Modeling and Cloud Implementation of a Reference Database of Addressing in Morocco
A reference database of addressing is an important resource for urban applications. The efficiency of an addressing sys-tem depends on both data quality and technical architecture. Data must respect a standard model that is flexible to meet different cases in the field. The technical architecture should be service oriented to...
Provided By Scientific Research
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Topology-Aware Deployment of Scientific Applications in Cloud Computing
Now-a-days, more and more scientific applications are moving to cloud computing. The optimal deployment of scientific applications is critical for providing good services to users. Scientific applications are usually topology-aware applications. Therefore, considering the topology of a scientific application during the development will benefit the performance of the application. However,...
Provided By National University of Defense Technology
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A Periodic Portfolio Scheduler for Scientific Computing in the Data Center
The popularity of data centers in scientific computing has led to new architectures, new workload structures, and growing customer bases. As a consequence, the selection of efficient scheduling algorithms for the data center is an increasingly costlier and more difficult challenge. To address this challenge, and contrasting previous work on...
Provided By National University of Defense Technology
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Wukong: A Cloud-Oriented File Service for Mobile Internet Devices
Along with the rapid growth of heterogeneous cloud services and network technologies, more mobile devices use cloud storage services to enlarge the capacity and share data in the daily lives. The authors commonly use cloud storage service clients in a straight forward fashion, since they may easily obtain most client-side...
Provided By National University of Defense Technology
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County Government Standardizes on Microsoft Software to Deliver New Taxpayer Services
Clark County's move to Microsoft software has freed additional resources to focus on improved delivery of citizen services - and additional productivity gains for its thousands of business users. To reduce costs and improve reliability, Nevada's Clark County migrated from NetWare and GroupWise to Microsoft software. This decision has made...
Provided By Microsoft Tips
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An Analysis and Implementation of Cloud Computing at Higher Technical Education
In the current scenario every enterprise wants to implement cloud computing to fulfill their computing needs. Penetration of Higher Education in all regions is increasing all over the globe at very fast pace. With the increase in the number of institutions offering higher education, cloud computing implementation at higher education...
Provided By University of Puerto Rico
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Reference Deployment Models for Eliminating User Concerns on Cloud Security
Extensive research efforts have been put on cloud computing and its related technologies, resulting in several well acknowledged cloud computing theories and technologies. Cloud computing has become a hot topic both in research and in industry, and when making decisions on deploying/adopting cloud computing related solutions, security has always been...
Provided By Oslo University College
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A Cloud-Based DSS Model for Driver Safety and Monitoring on Australian Roads
There is a need to balance the requirements of new application design and technology provisioning platforms to meet both the demands of clients and new technological environments. This paper introduces a cloud computing provision for a new Decision Support Systems (DSS) solution design. The proposed DSS is based on an...
Provided By University of the Studies of the Sannio
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Email Clustering and Cloud Email Services
Lately, there has been a lot of buzz about the brand new cloud computing paradigm. Supposedly, through this type of cloud resource, one would get the same performance and user experience levels as with classic systems. Some companies have moved word and spreadsheet processors online, while others plan to allow...
Provided By GECAD TECHNOLOGIES
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Cloud Computing Security: Making Virtual Machines Cloud-Ready
This paper identifies security concerns arising in cloud computing environments and outlines methods to maintain compliance integrity and preserve security protection as virtual resources move from on-premise to public cloud environments. It provides checklists of key questions for enterprises and service providers to consider as they pursue cloud computing deployments....
Provided By Third Brigade
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Agent-Based Cloud Commerce
In a business model for Cloud computing, users pay providers for consumption of their computing capabilities. This paper proposes an agent-based testbed for bolstering the discovery of Cloud resources and SLA negotiation. In the testbed, provider and consumer agents act as intermediaries between providers and consumers. Through a 4-stage resource...
Provided By Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
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A Secure Approach Towards Cloud Data Communication
Cloud computing has been a centre of discussion from a long time. But it is a well-known fact that nearly every new technology has some problems related to it. Cloud computing is considered as an attractive service since the users' commitments for the operations and investments are reduced to a...
Provided By VIT Software, LLC
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Efficient Secure Group Communication in Cloud Computing Environment
Cloud Computing has been envisioned as the next-generation architecture of IT Enterprise. In the authors' day today life they are using many web applications. Many of the users know to create web application which is very useful for their society. After creating their web application they don't know how to...
Provided By VIT Software, LLC
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An Approach Secret Sharing Algorithm in Cloud Computing Security Over Single to Multi Clouds
Now-a-day's rapidly increased use of cloud computing in the many organization and IT industries and provides new software with low cost. So the cloud computing give the users lot of benefits with low cost and of data accessibility through Internet. The ensuring security risks of the cloud computing is the...
Provided By VIT Software, LLC
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Design of StraaS (Streaming as a Service) Based on Cloud Computing
In this paper, the authors define and design the Streaming service based on cloud computing. And they describe the various function and security function to StraaS service. The recent IT issues include Cloud Computing and Big Data, and the Industry-University-Institute collaborations are actively going on. Cloud Computing has raise as...
Provided By Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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10 applications you can move to the cloud
Providers have made great strides in improving the security and reliability of cloud services -- so much so that Justin James sees a number of areas where moving applications to the cloud makes a lot of sense.
This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.Provided By Justin James
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A Cost Estimation for Web Applications on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
This paper proposed a cost estimation model for web applications on Amazon EC2 with auto scaling. The authors' approach was largely based on simulation with about 10 parameters. They observed that the cost was subjected to the distribution of users over time. The uniform distribution was the most costly. They...
Provided By Chulalongkorn University
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TAAC: Temporal Attribute-Based Access Control for Multi-Authority Cloud Storage Systems
Data access control is an effective way to ensure the data security in the cloud. Due to data outsourcing and untrusted cloud servers, the data access control becomes a challenging issue in cloud storage systems. Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE), as a promising technique for access control of encrypted data, is...
Provided By City University of Hong Kong
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Security Recommendations for Cloud Computing Providers
Cloud Computing is currently one of the hottest topics in Information Technology (IT). However, it is not so much that the term 'Cloud Computing' represents a host of new technologies, but rather that these technologies are combined and effectively upgraded so that they enable new IT services and new business...
Provided By German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)
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A Methodology for Management of Cloud Computing Using Security Criteria
Desirable requirements of cloud computing are to avoid wasting underused resources and increasing response time due to shortage of resources. The authors notice that recent literature in the field prioritizes the administration of resource provisioning and the allocation algorithms for an energy-efficient management of cloud computing environments. Security metrics can...
Provided By University of Camerino
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Securely Storing and Executing Business Processes in the Cloud
Given the latest advances in IT, the envisioning of computing as an essential utility for the general community led to the proposal of novel computing paradigms such as cloud computing. Cloud computing is presented as being able to transform the IT industry by introducing a delivery model of Software as...
Provided By Technical University of Kosice
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Byzantine Fault-Tolerant MapReduce: Faults Are Not Just Crashes
MapReduce is often used to run critical jobs such as scientific data analysis. However, evidence in the literature shows that arbitrary faults do occur and can probably corrupt the results of MapReduce jobs. MapReduce runtimes like Hadoop tolerate crash faults, but not arbitrary or Byzantine faults. The authors present a...
Provided By Technical University of Kosice
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Next Generation Networks and the migration towards convergence
The benefits of converged data and voice networks have been on the horizon for some time, but it is only now that they have become a viable option for the majority of firms. Next Generation Networks (NGNs), which combine data, voice and other applications onto a single platform are driving...
Provided By ntl:Telewest Business
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Computing Building a Framework for Successful Transition
Cloud computing, with the revolutionary promise of computing as a utility, has the potential to transform how IT services are delivered and managed. Yet, despite its great promise, even the most seasoned professionals know little about cloud computing or how to define it. A recent study revealed that 41% of...
Provided By GTSI
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Desktop Virtualization in the Cloud
Gartner says cloud computing is "A style of computing where massively scalable, IT-enabled capabilities are provided as a service across the Internet to multiple external customers." IDC says it is "An emerging IT development, deployment and delivery model, enabling real-time delivery of products, services and solutions over the Internet." Finally,...
Provided By GTSI
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Silanis Brings e-Signatures to Amazon Cloud Computing
The Silanis cloud deployment is offered with IBM's WebSphere and DB2 software to provide a complete solution on the Amazon EC2 service. A fully functional solution can be enabled for use on the cloud in the same time needed to setup and configure a competitive SaaS-based offering. Unlike competitive SaaS...
Provided By Silanis Technology
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Cloud Computing for Renewable Power Systems
Renewable energy systems are playing a main role in the future power systems. Therefore, the future electricity infrastructure must support the integration of the existing conventional power system with varies renewable energy resources, which are widely dispersed power sources. This interconnected power pools or grid needs a real-time monitoring, controlling...
Provided By University of Vienna
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Are Service Level Agreements Really Necessary In Outsourcing?
The concept of service level agreements originated from the telecoms industry where service providers are familiar with sharing bandwidth and agreeing clear technical definitions of what they are entitled to. However, as outsourcing arrangements have hit the mainstream, it has become clear that not all providers are created equal. Competitive...
Provided By BCS
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Ensuring High Service Levels in Cloud Computing: Keys to Effective Service Management
Cloud computing is getting a lot of coverage in the media and a lot of space in the slide decks presented in analyst briefings. Seemingly, however, each pundit has his or her own way of both defining and evaluating the merits of cloud computing. On one end of the spectrum,...
Provided By Nimsoft
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E-learning and M-learning: Africa's Search for a Suitable Concept in the Era of Cloud Computing?
This paper is an exploration of the conceptual confusion between E-learning and M-learning particularly in Africa. Section I provides a background to the development of E-learning and M-learning. Section II focuses on the conceptual analysis as it applies to Africa. It is with an investigative and expansive mind that this...
Provided By University of the Western Cape
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Manufacturing Company Consolidates Data Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) Systems to Private Cloud, and Improves Employee Productivity With Riverbed Steelhead Appliances
KTR had consolidated most of its IT systems to a private cloud infrastructure based at its central data center in Germany, and wanted to further consolidate its data backup systems. However, users in remote branch offices began to complain of poor download speeds over the WAN for critical applications, such...
Provided By Riverbed Software
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A Dynamic Resource Allocation Method for Parallel Data Processing in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has the potential to dramatically change the landscape of the current IT industry. For companies that only have to process large amounts of data occasionally running their own data center is obviously not an option. Instead, Cloud computing has emerged as a promising approach to rent a large...
Provided By Science Publications
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Impatient Task Mapping in Elastic Cloud Using Genetic Algorithm
Task scheduling means finding the best resource or Virtual Machine (VM) (cloud computing speaking) for the requested task. It plays an essential role in the system performance because it controls the data flow and the execution order of the incoming tasks. The optimal solution for task scheduling on a heterogeneous...
Provided By Science Publications
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Vision Based Reconstruction Multi-Clouds of Scale Invariant Feature Transform Features for Indoor Navigation
Intelligent machines are starting to move into human-occupied space and they will have a high degree of autonomy to effectively navigate from one place to another. Acquiring maps of the environment is a fundamental task for autonomous mobile robots, since the maps are required in different higher level tasks, such...
Provided By Science Publications
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On the Fly Negotiation for Urgent Service Level Agreement on Intercloud Environment
Impatient jobs are the jobs that have strict constraints in starting and completion time and need a fast response and attention in mapping to resources. The negotiation process in cloud computing needs a customer-provider agreement that leads to loss of a significant amount of time for impatient jobs. The huge...
Provided By Science Publications
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Business-Level Agreements for the Future Internet of Services
Both Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing bring users a step closer to the realization of the Internet of Services. More and more organizations are be-coming consumers or providers of Service-Based Applications (SBAs), which are delivered through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings bringing the paradigm of Service-Oriented and...
Provided By University of Sharjah
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Cloud Computing: Exploring the Scope
Cloud computing refers a paradigm shift to overall IT solutions while raising the accessibility, scalability and effectiveness through its enabling technologies. However, migrated cloud platforms and services cost benefits as well as performances are neither clear nor summarized. Globalization and the recessionary economic times have not only raised the bar...
Provided By Indian Institute of Technology Allahabad
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Pacer: Taking the Guesswork Out of Live Migrations in Hybrid Cloud Computing
Hybrid Cloud Computing (HCC) - where virtualizable compute and storage resources from private datacenters and public cloud providers are seamlessly integrated into one platform in which applications can migrate freely is emerging as the most preferred cloud computing paradigm for commercial enterprises according to recent industry reports and surveys. Hybrid...
Provided By Rice Software Consulting
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Defragmenting the Cloud Using Demand-Based Resource Allocation
In this paper, the author propose two novel algorithms called BPX and IDD that are able to provide the concept of buying bulk capacity to a cloud customer. These algorithms dynamically allocate the overall capacity between VMs based on their demand and user-set importance. Both algorithms are highly scalable and...
Provided By Rice Software Consulting
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Reward Scheduling for QoS in Cloud Applications
The authors present a novel QoS scheduling algorithm for multi-tiered storage servers made up of hard disks and SSDs. The work is motivated by the difference in access times for a workload as its SSD hit ratio changes. The authors' scheme is designed to reward clients according to their runtime...
Provided By Rice Software Consulting
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Securing email in the cloud
Security is more than keeping unauthorised users out of your network and viruses off your desktops. Security means ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of business information. It doesn't matter where in the value or supply chain you are, you're relying on email for all manner of vital communications. This...
Provided By Mimecast