Cloud
Cloud technologies are gaining momentum everyday in the largest data centers and the smallest businesses, offering services that encompass everything from the infrastructure down to the software level. There are many potential benefits as well as risks, but market leaders like Amazon, Rackspace, IBM, and Microsoft are bringing the cloud from the bleeding edge to the center of the IT landscape.
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Elasticity in Cloud Computing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
Originating from the field of physics and economics, the term elasticity is nowadays heavily used in the context of cloud computing. In this context, elasticity is commonly understood as the ability o...
Provided By Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Flood Modelling for Cities Using Cloud Computing
Urban flood risk modeling is a highly topical example of intensive computational processing. Such processing is increasingly required by a range of organizations including local government, engineerin...
Provided By Springer Healthcare
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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 algori...
Provided By National University of Defense Technology
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CloudMirror: Application-Aware Bandwidth Reservations in the Cloud
Cloud computing providers today do not offer guarantees for the network bandwidth available in the cloud, preventing tenants from running their applications predictably. To provide guarantees, several...
Provided By University of Economics, Prague
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Cloud Computing for the Power Grid: From Service Composition to Assured Clouds
The electric power industry is one of the few industries where cloud computing has not yet found much adoption, even though electric power utilities rely heavily on communications and computation to p...
Provided By KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Clustering Algorithms for Scale-Free Networks and Applications to Cloud Resource Management
The analysis of high-level models of a system allows users to better understand its behavior. Oftentimes users use a finite state machine model of a system where vertices represent states and the dire...
Provided By University of Central England in Birmingham
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StreamSmart: P2P Video Streaming for Smartphones Through the Cloud
In this paper, the authors analyze the complexity of real-time video streaming among Smartphone users. Firstly, they show that the traditional solution - a unique server receiving and dispatching all ...
Provided By SapientStone Games
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Clone2Clone (C2C): Peer-to-Peer Networking of Smartphones on the Cloud
In this paper, the authors introduce Clone2Clone (C2C), a distributed peer-to-peer platform for cloud clones of Smartphones. C2C shows dramatic performance improvement that is made possible by offload...
Provided By SapientStone Games
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Auditing for Distributed Storage Systems
In this paper, the authors bridge the gap between these two currently disconnected bodies of work. They propose NC-Audit, a novel remote data integrity checking scheme, designed specifically for netwo...
Provided By Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Hybrid Cloud Architecture: How to Streamline Hybrid Cloud Migration
Cloud computing is a widespread phenomenon that promises economic advantages, speed, agility, flexibility, scalability and innovation. By 2014, IT organizations in 30% of Global 1000 companies will in...
Provided By RiverMeadow Software
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Contributory Provision Point Contracts - A Risk-Free Mechanism for Hedging Cloud Energy Costs
Cloud computing services rely on electricity to power compute-servers, network equipment, cooling systems, and other supporting infrastructure. As such, energy costs are a substantial outgoing to publ...
Provided By Springer Healthcare
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Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Deadline and Budget Constrained Application in Cloud Environment
Due to missing deadlines, the jobs are being rejected. The rejection rate increases. The authors want to propose on-demand provisioning in order to maintain QoS they need to give extra resource to the...
Provided By Department of Information Technology (DIT)
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Cloud Computing Benefits for Educational Institutions
Education today is becoming completely associated with the Information Technology on the content delivery, communication and collaboration. The need for servers, storage and software are highly demand...
Provided By Cornell University
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Research, Implementations and Issues on Cloud Computing
Cloud computing - a relatively recent term, builds on decades of research in virtualization, distributed computing, utility computing, and more recently networking, web and software services. It impli...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Cloud Computing Concerns in Developing Economies
Cloud computing promises to bring substantial benefits to how organizations conduct their businesses and the way their services reach out to potential consumers. Cloud computing is a welcome initiativ...
Provided By University of Sofia
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A Network-aware Virtual Machine Placement and Migration Approach in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing represents a major step up in computing whereby shared computation resources are provided on demand. In such a scenario, applications and data thereof can be hosted by various networke...
Provided By University of Wisconsin–River Falls
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The Security Challenges and Countermeasures of Virtual Cloud
The adaption of cloud computing is on a rise these days, due to the various effects that it has on enterprise. As it allows the users to have scalable infrastructure and economical benefits which inde...
Provided By Charles Sturt University
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Scheduling Research Based on Genetic Algorithm and Qos Constraints of Cloud Computing Resources
Cloud computing is a new business model based on Internet and aims to provide information service for users. Resource scheduling is one of the key technologies of Cloud Computing. Analyzing the repres...
Provided By JATIT
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Automated SLA Negotiation Framework for Cloud Computing
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a legal contract between parties to ensure the Quality of Service (QoS) is provided to the customers. A SLA negotiation between participants assists in defining the ...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Business Analytics in the cloud: Driving business innovation through cloud computing and analytics solutions
Read this whitepaper to learn how businesses take advantage of the power of the cloud to build strong analytically oriented teams, adopt new ways to use information and jump ahead of their competition...
Provided By IBM
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Next Generation Mobile Cloud Gaming
With the proliferation of smart mobile devices and broadband wireless networks, the mobile gaming market is rapidly expanding among younger generations due to its ubiquitous entertainment features. Cl...
Provided By Huazhong University of Science & Technology
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Mediaagility Runs on the Cloud for Less Than $1/Employee/Day
MediaAgility is a Cloud Intelligence company headquartered in the US with offices in India, Singapore and the UK. Founded in early 2011, their mission is to challenge their customers to achieve their ...
Provided By MediaAgility
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Exploring Heterogeneity of Unreliable Machines for P2p Backup
P2P architecture is a viable option for enterprise backup. In contrast to dedicated backup servers, nowadays a standard solution, making backups directly on organization's workstations should be cheap...
Provided By University of Wales, Newport
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Success in the cloud
Knowing the potential benefits of cloud computing, IBM implemented this technology for six workloads—development and test, analytics, storage, collaboration, desktop and production application. And t...
Provided By IBM
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Exploring the frontiers of cloud computing: Insights from Platform-as-a-Service pioneers
See more value through the cloud One of the least understood forms of cloud computing, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), is garnering some well-deserved attention. Although it’s a new approach, early ado...
Provided By IBM
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Sheltered Data Storage Services in Cloud Computing
Cloud storage enables users to remotely store their data and enjoy the on-demand high quality cloud applications without the burden of local hardware and software management. Though the benefits are c...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Framework for Monitoring and Evaluation of Users in Trusted Cloud
In the cloud computing, due to users directly use and operate the software and OS, and even basic programming environment and network infrastructure which provided by the Cloud Services Providers (CSP...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Intelligent Agent Based Semantic Web in Cloud Computing Environment
Considering today's web scenario, there is a need of effective and meaningful search over the web which is provided by Semantic Web. Existing search engines are keyword based. They are vulnerable in a...
Provided By Cornell University
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DocCloud: A Document Recommender System on Cloud Computing With Plausible Deniability
Recommender systems select the most interesting products for costumers based on their interests. The move of a recommender system to a cloud faces many challenges from the perspective of the protectio...
Provided By Reed Business Information
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Towards Differential Query Services in Cost-Efficient Clouds
Cloud computing as an emerging technology trend is expected to reshape the advances in information technology. In a cost-efficient cloud environment, a user can tolerate a certain degree of delay whil...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Digital Forensic Investigation and Cloud Computing
In this paper, the authors aim to be a high-level introduction into fundamental concepts of both digital forensic investigations and cloud computing for non-experts in one or both areas. Once fundamen...
Provided By University College Cork
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How to Beat a Cloud Skeptic: Four Steps Towards Rationalizing the Great Cloud Debate
The cloud represents a wholesale shift in the ways in which IT services are delivered. Its presence requires us to re-ask and re-answer may of our organization’s foundational questions. Because the cl...
Provided By Quest Software
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A Database Watermarking Service with a Trusted Authority Architecture for Cloud Environment
Providing cloud services gets an increasing interest of both scientific and industrial applications today. Storage services are the fundamental component of the Cloud computing paradigm. Exploiting su...
Provided By Ain Shams University
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Securing User's Data in HDFS
With the advent of technology and increasing growth in volume of data the business are finding the cloud as suitable option to host their data. However, putting the sensitive data on third-party infra...
Provided By IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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An Efficient Approach For Integrating Data Mining Into Cloud Computing
Cloud computing and data mining are the two emerging trends now a days in the world of information technology and computing. This paper deals with the study of how data mining is used in cloud computi...
Provided By IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Assuring Data Sharing and Culpability as a Service in Cloud
Cloud computing presents a replacement thanks to supplement the present consumption and delivery model for IT services supported the net, by providing for dynamically accessible and sometimes virtuali...
Provided By IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Ensuring Data Privacy and Access Anonymity using CryptographicTechniques in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing offers many advantages, such as data ubiquity, flexibility of access, better performance and low start up cost. However, this introduces new challenges. The main challenge is the owner...
Provided By IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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An Integrated Research Analysis of Cloud Forensics for Secured Computing Environment
Cloud forensics under cloud computing an on-demand paradigm becoming a well transformative technology in the computing now a day's grabbing important attention towards pursuing in-depth analysis of se...
Provided By IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Implementation of Effective Third Party Auditing for Data Security in Cloud
Cloud computing has been envisioned as the next-generation architecture of IT Enterprise. It moves the application software and databases to the centralized large data centers, where the management of...
Provided By International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Privacy - Preserving Audit of Secure Data Storage Services in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product. It provides shared resources, software, and information to computers and other devices over a network. The increasing n...
Provided By International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Secure Role Based Data Access Control in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm in which resources of the computing infrastructure are provided as services over the Internet. As promising as it is, this paradigm also brings forth ...
Provided By Panimalar Engineering College
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An Approach for Secured Data Storage Using Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing has been envisioned as the next generation Architecture of IT venture. In contrast to conventional solutions, where the IT services are under proper physical, logical and personnel con...
Provided By Panimalar Engineering College
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Pioneer DTV System Under Cloud Computing Environment
A wide deployment of Internet Protocol TeleVision (IPTV), CAble TeleVision (CATV), Internet, User Created Contents (UCC), and Digital TeleVision (DTV) enabled the rapid increase of channels and progra...
Provided By Panimalar Engineering College
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A Survey on Cloud Computing Security, Challenges and Threats
Cloud computing is an internet based model that enable convenient, on demand and pay per use access to a pool of shared resources. It is a new technology that satisfies a user's requirement for comput...
Provided By SAGAR Institute Of Research and Technology
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A Cost-Efficient Approach for Dynamic and Geographically-Diverse Replication of Components in Cloud Computing
A cost-efficient approach for dynamic and geographically-diverse replication of components in a cloud computing infrastructure that effectively adapts to load variations and offers service availabilit...
Provided By Panimalar Engineering College
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Cloud Computing: A Study of Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)
Cloud computing is an increasingly popular paradigm for accessing computing resources. In practice, cloud service providers tend to offer services that can be grouped into three categories: software a...
Provided By Regional Institute of Management and Technology
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Study of Privacy-Preserving Framework for Cloud Storage
In order to implement privacy-preserving, efficient and secure data storage and access environment of cloud storage, the following problems must be considered: data index structure, generation and man...
Provided By Guangxi University
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Resource Constrained Multi-User Computation Partitioning for Interactive Mobile Cloud Applications
Computation offloading is considered as a critical technique to improve the responsiveness of compute-intensive interactive applications in mobile cloud computing. By using the offloading technique, a...
Provided By University of Bayreuth
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From Grids to Clouds: A Collective Intelligence Study for Inter-Cooperated Infrastructures
Recently, more effort has been put into developing interoperable and distributed environments that offer users exceptional opportunities for utilizing resources over the internet. By utilizing grids a...
Provided By University of Bayreuth
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Programming Model Support for Dependable, Elastic Cloud Applications
An attractive approach to leveraging the ability of cloud-computing platforms to provide resources on demand is to build elastic applications, which can scale up or down based on resource requirements...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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College Builds Secure Multitenant Cloud
Claremont McKenna College challenges were to Increase IT efficiency, Support computing needs in joint science lab, to prepare for disaster recovery. They chose VCE company to overcome these challenges...
Provided By VCE Company
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Service Provider Builds Enterprise Cloud
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., A Xerox Company is one of the Service Provider. Their facing the challenges were to building enterprise-class private cloud, to maximizing business agility and mini...
Provided By VCE Company
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The TClouds Architecture: Open and Resilient Cloud-of-Clouds Computing
In this paper, the authors give a preliminary overview of the TClouds architecture, which is devoted to providing incrementally high levels of security and dependability to cloud infrastructures, in a...
Provided By Universidade de Coimbra
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Man Group Expands Private Cloud Deployment
With the pace of its virtualization program accelerating, and a desire to manage its virtual and physical assets with a single platform and method, leading investment firm Man Group needed a cloud/vir...
Provided By DynamicOps
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Service Provider Builds Private Cloud Services Using Vblock - Infrastructure Platforms
EDV-Centrum f?r Kirche und Diakonie (ECKD) is one of the IT Service Provider in Germany. Their facing challenges were to building secure, the multitenant cloud for churches and public sector organizat...
Provided By VCE Company
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College Board Lifts Efficiency and Readies for Private Cloud Services With Vblock Infrastructure Platforms
The Mississippi Community College Board (MCCB) is the coordinating organization for Mississippi's 15 community and junior colleges. Their challenges are they wanted to leverage server virtualization, ...
Provided By VCE Company
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Service Provider Can Predict Costs to the Penny
Cobweb Solutions Ltd. provides hosted IT services to more than 6000 European customers, ranging from two-person businesses to large enterprises. Cobweb Solutions wanted to quickly introduce new hosted...
Provided By VCE Company
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Health Benefit Administrator Cures Growing Pains With Private and Public Cloud
CareCore National is a specialty benefit-management company that pioneered evidence-based medicine for healthcare treatments. Their business growth is limited by IT infrastructure constraints and inte...
Provided By VCE Company
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Service Provider Builds Private Cloud Services Using Vblock-Infrastructure Platforms
EDV-Centrum f?r Kirche und Diakonie (ECKD) is one of the IT Service Provider. ECKD's challenges were building secure, multitenant cloud for churches and public sector organizations, and to simplify ma...
Provided By VCE Company
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Cloud Computing From the Ground Up: Cloud Basics and Pragmatic Best Practices for Getting Started
What is cloud computing? The experts disagree on its exact definition, but most concur that it includes the notion of web-based services that are available on demand from an optimized, and highly scal...
Provided By Ajilitee
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Reallocation and Allocation of Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has given the new face to the distributed field. Two main issues are discussed in this paper, "The process of finding the efficient virtual machine by using the concept of load balanci...
Provided By Dharmsinh Desai University
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Case Study: Mohawk Fine Papers Uses a CSB to Ease Adoption of Cloud Computing
This Case Study examines how paper manufacturer Mohawk Fine Papers uses cloud services brokerage Liaison Technologies' service to help access trading partners and simplify the adoption of cloud comput...
Provided By Liaison Technologies
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DynamicOps ROI: Optimizing the Value of Private Cloud Computing
Increasingly, businesses are striving to use IT as a competitive advantage - which requires greater IT responsiveness to business units. At the same time, data center and desktop computing are becomin...
Provided By DynamicOps
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Lessons From Cloud Computing for End-to-End Security
While the final goal for the government as well as for the private sector is a "A network-centric data strategy that streamlines data discovery and sharing", the implementation of this vision is not a...
Provided By Net-Scale Technologies
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Creating a High-Availability, Scalable Web-Server System Within the Digiweb Cloud
Cloud computing is all the rage. "It's become the phrase du jour," says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a diff...
Provided By Digiweb
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Cloud Computing for Healthcare Organizations: Is There a Silver Lining?
Cloud computing is now the technology buzzword of small and medium sized business. There are various services that fall under the term cloud computing. Software as a Service (SaaS), data storage and c...
Provided By Aspen Advisors
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The Smart Cloud Is Ready to Use
The Cloud makes everyone big. Cloud Computing has been around for a while. IT specialists have banded it about as if it's something that's terribly complicated and only suited to huge corporations wit...
Provided By Colt Tech
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Big Data Retention and Cloud Computing: Retaining Data Long Term Is the "Other Side" of the Big Data Imperative, and Is Well Suited to Cloud Architecture
Big Data presents significant challenges and opportunities for cost control, compliance and business transformation in the new century. Online exchange eBay operates data warehouses nearing 10 petabyt...
Provided By RainStor
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Cloud Computing, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Podcast With Siamak Farah From InfoStreet
In this podcast, the speakers discuss the InfoStreet solution along with a discussion in to the good, the bad, and the ugly of Cloud Computing. They discuss the many potential pit falls of cloud compu...
Provided By DABCC
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Citrix Cloud Computing Podcast With Brad Pederson, Kurt Moody, and Scott Swanburg From Citrix
In this podcast, the speakers discuss Citrix's views around cloud computing, XenApp in the cloud, why Citrix thinks Cloud Computing is different than the ASP market, why they feel their solutions is b...
Provided By DABCC
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IntelligentWorkload Factoring for a Hybrid Cloud Computing Model
The authors present an intelligent workload factoring service for enterprise customers to make the best use of public cloud services along with their privately-owned (legacy) data centers. It enables ...
Provided By NEC Laboratories
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What#$#s New With Microsoft Virtualization, and Cloud Computing Podcast With David Greschler From Microsoft
In this podcast, the speakers discuss what's new with Microsoft virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (formally known as Kidaro), alon...
Provided By DABCC
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Entangled Cloud Storage
The terminology "Cloud Computing" refers to a paradigm shift in which applications from a server are executed and managed through a client's web browser, with no installed client version of an applica...
Provided By Technische Universitat Clausthal
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Self-Managed Services Conceptual Model in Trustworthy Clouds' Infrastructure
Current clouds infrastructure do not provide the full potential of automated self-managed services. Cloud infrastructure management are supported by clouds' internal employees and contractors (e.g. en...
Provided By Oxford University
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Resource Allocation for Service Composition in Cloud-based Video Surveillance Platform
Resource allocation plays an important role in service composition for cloud-based video surveillance platform. In this platform, the utilization of computational resources is managed through accessin...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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QoS-aware Deployment of Network of Virtual Appliances across Multiple Clouds
Cloud computing paradigm allows on-demand access to computing and storages services over the Internet. To solve the complexity of application deployment in Cloud infrastructure, virtual appliances, pr...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Secure Signal Processing in the Cloud
In recent years, the paradigm of Cloud Computing has become a very appealing concept both for providers that can benefit from hiring out their extra computation and storage resources, and for users, t...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing
Recent advances have given rise to the popularity and success of cloud computing. However, when outsourcing the data and business application to a third party causes the security and privacy issues to...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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CAS: A Framework of Online Detecting Advance Malware Families for Cloud-Based Security
Preventing networks from being attacked has become a critical issue for network administrators and researchers. With the popularity and variety of large-scale zeroday threats over the Internet, securi...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Cloud Agile Manufacturing
In this paper, the authors propose a new manufacturing paradigm called Cloud Agile Manufacturing, and its principal objective is to offer industrial production systems as a service. Thus users can acc...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering