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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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Secure Storage Services in Cloud Computing
This Cloud storage service has made the users to access their data anywhere anytime without any trouble. Available systems that provide support for the remote data integrity are useful for quality of service testing but do not deal with server failure or handling misbehaving servers. The proposed system ensures storage...
Provided By Creative Commons
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Performance Comparison of Web Service in IaaS Cloud and Standard Deployment Model
In recent years due to the rapid development of e-business, there is huge demand for application that based on web services. Web services are chosen not only on the basis of functionality but also based on Non Functional Properties (NFP) called Quality of Service (QoS). Among the NFP's performance is...
Provided By Creative Commons
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An Analysis on Privacy Preserving in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has brought a new way that organizations store and manage their data, due to reduced cost, robustness and ubiquitous nature. It offers the promise of massive cost savings along with increased IT agility. But the storage and access of sensitive data in cloud computing is an important issue...
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Accountable Data Sharing in Cloud Using Logging Mechanism
In Cloud Computing the scalable services are easily consumed in an on-demand basis via internet. In this the user's data are processed remotely in an unknown machine, where there is a fear of losing their own data. In order to overcome this problem, a decentralized accountability framework is proposed to...
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Ensuring Cloud Security Using Hybrid Encryption Scheme and Disaster Recovery Mechanism
Cloud computing, as a budding computing hypothesis, which provides users on-demand scalable services by allowing them to store their data in remote servers. As this new computing paradigm requires users to delegate their valuable data to cloud providers, it increases security and isolation concerns on outsourced data. Conversely, allowing Cloud...
Provided By Creative Commons
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A Way to Cloud Computing Basic to Multitenant Environment
Cloud Computing is evolving as a key computing platform for sharing resources that include infrastructures, software, applications, and business processes. Virtualization is widely used in the cloud computing, it is a core technology for enabling cloud resource sharing. Virtualization is used to virtualize a single instance to the multiple instances....
Provided By International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE)
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Classification of Cloud Data using Bayesian Classification
One of the major security challenges in cloud computing is the detection and prevention of intrusions and attacks. In order to detect and prevent malicious activities at the network layer, the authors propose a security framework which integrates a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) in the Cloud infrastructure. They use...
Provided By International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Security Issues in Hybrid Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is solution in which resources such as hardware, software, network and storage requirement are provided to the user as per the demand. Basically Cloud computing is the combination of private cloud and public cloud. This paper focuses on the overview of security issues which may arise while adopting...
Provided By International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Comparative Study of Green Computing on University Campus
Green computing achieve not only more efficient processing and utilization of computing infrastructure for operational, but also minimize energy consumption and save power waste. Green computing is ensured that the future growth of computing is sustainable and more reliable. Otherwise, Green computing with increasingly then front-end client devices interacting with...
Provided By International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Secure Virtualization in Cloud Computing Using Eucalyptus
The paper aims to ensure the security for virtual machines in cloud computing using Eucalyptus. Cloud computing is the next generation of networking computing, since it can deliver both software and hardware as on demand resources and services over the Internet. Virtualization plays a special role in cloud computing. After...
Provided By International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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FADE: A Secure Overlay Cloud Storage System
Cloud storage offers an abstraction of infinite storage space for clients to outsource data storage in a pay-as-you-go manner. Third party cloud storage will be provides guaranteed security and reduces the management cost. FADE provides policy access control and assured deletion. Assured deletion aims to provide cloud client on option...
Provided By International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Scheduling Virtual Machines for Load balancing in Cloud Computing Platform
Cloud computing enables developers to automatically deploy applications during task allocation and storage distribution by using distributed computing technologies in numerous servers. To gain the maximum benefit from cloud computing, developers must design mechanisms that optimize the use of architectural and deployment paradigms. The role of Virtual Machine's (VMs) has...
Provided By International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Virtualization, The Great Thing and Issues in Cloud Computing
Now within IT industry virtualization is used between today's interfaces to abstract different layers from each other when one layer is updated, the others one needs update too. When one layer is defined, the upper and lower layer cannot be used for anything else. One of the Top must's rapidly...
Provided By Lovely Professional University
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Dynamic Resource Allocation Using Virtual Machines for Cloud Computing Environment
Cloud computing allows business customers to scale up and down their resource usage based on needs. Many of the touted gains in the cloud model come from resource multiplexing through virtualization technology. In this paper, the authors present a system that uses virtualization technology to allocate data center resources dynamically...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Cloud: The Virtual Computing
Cloud computing builds on established trends for driving the cost out of the delivery of services while increasing the speed and agility with which services are deployed. Cloud hosting is often termed as pay-as-you-use model that allows a business to pay for only the resources it uses and thus providing...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Highly Available XenApp Cloud
In Cloud computing, application and desktop delivery are the two emerging technologies that has reduced application and desktop computing costs and provided greater IT and user flexibility compared to traditional application and desktop management models. Among the various SaaS technologies, XenApp that allow numerous end users to connect to their...
Provided By Kurukshetra University
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Comparison of Load Balancing and Scheduling Algorithms in Cloud Environment
The importance of cloud computing is increasing nowadays. Cloud computing is used for the delivery of hosted services like reliable, fault tolerant and scalable infrastructure over Internet. A variety of algorithms is used in the cloud environment for scheduling and load balancing, thereby reducing the total cost. The main algorithms...
Provided By International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE)
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Secure Sharing of Health Records in Cloud Using ABE
In recent years, Personal Health Record (PHR) has emerged as a patient-centric model of health information exchange. This stands in contrast with the more widely used electronic medical record, which is operated by institutions (such as a hospital) and contains data entered by doctors or billing data to support insurance...
Provided By International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE)
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Secure Cloud Storage With Multi Cloud Architecture
The use of cloud computing has increased rapidly in many organizations. Cloud computing provides many benefits in terms of low cost and accessibility of data. Ensuring the security of cloud computing is a major factor in the cloud computing environment, as users often store sensitive information with cloud storage providers...
Provided By International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE)
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Network Information Driven Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is bringing about it achievable to alienate the approach of developing an infrastructure for service provisioning from the business of assisting end user supports. Now, such infrastructures are commonly ascribed in big information centers and the approaches are conducted remotely from the clients. One induct for this is...
Provided By Creative Commons
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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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Future of Cloud Computing
Today almost everyone talking about "Cloud Computing" whoever belongs to technology world? The term refers to computing capabilities provided to organizations that operate over the Internet. Businesses and governments are using "The cloud" to provide more and more services as it allows for greater flexibility, efficiency and lower costs. Whether...
Provided By Viish
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Anycast End-to-end Resilience for Cloud Services over Virtual Optical Networks
Optical networks are crucial to support increasingly demanding cloud services. Delivering the requested quality of service is key to successfully provisioning end-to-end services in clouds. Therefore, as for traditional optical network services, it is of utter importance to guarantee that clouds are resilient to any failure of either network infrastructure...
Provided By Ghent University
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Modeling Mobile Cloud Computing Using Greenmetrics
Although a mobile cloud computing paradigm has obtained significant attentions from research community, the authors note that most of work is based on an ad hoc fashion. Furthermore, little work has shown a model-based cost optimization of offloading. Mobile cloud computing may instead be holistically analyzed and systematically designed as...
Provided By UCL Business PLC
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DDoS Mitigation in Cloud by Using C.I.T.F.A.
Cloud computing provides huge computing services to the business for improving the organizational growth. Basic requirement needed for this technology is Internet but provides higher capability when compared to the Internet. Cloud computing is a combination of computation, software, data access and also provides storage services. In Cloud, storage of...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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How to Federate VISION Clouds Through SAML/Shibboleth Authentication
Federation is currently finding a wide argumentation in Cloud Computing. The federation among cloud operators should allow new opportunities and businesses even making the role of SMEs crucial in these new scenarios. In this paper, the authors provide a solution on how to federate Storage Cloud providers, enabling the transparent...
Provided By University of Memphis
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Improving Virtual Machine Migration in Federated Cloud Environments
Cloud federation is the future of the cloud computing. In such new emerging scenarios, the \"Hot\" and \"Cold\" migrations imply the movement of a virtual machine disk-image from a server placed in a cloud provider to a server placed in another one, with a consequent consumption of bandwidth and cloud...
Provided By University of Memphis
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Three-Phase Cross-Cloud Federation Model: The Cloud SSO Authentication
Cloud federation aims to cost-effective assets and resources optimization among heterogeneous environments where clouds can cooperate together with the goal of obtaining \"Unbounded\" computation resources, hence new business opportunities. This paper describes an architecture for the federation establishment, where clouds that need external resources ask to federated clouds the renting...
Provided By University of Memphis
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Implementation of Eap With RSA for Enhancing the Security of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is emerging approach because of high availability, efficient cost and performance. In Cloud computing, services providers will provide the storage for data along with services. But due the lack of proper security policies, many business companies are reluctant to adopt the Cloud computing technology. This paper has been...
Provided By Science Publishing
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On-demand Webcast: Turning Your IT Department Into Corporate Cloud Providers
You've heard the promise: adopting a cloud model will provide you with the increased flexibility and agility you need to be cost effective and meet ever-increasing business demands. How can you get started on such a transformational effort when you are also faced with the ever increasing time and cost...
Provided By IBM
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DCaaS: Data Consistency as a Service for Managing Data Uncertainty on the Clouds
Ensuring data correctness over partitioned distributed database systems is a classical problem. Classical solutions proposed to solve this problem are mainly adopting locking or blocking techniques. These techniques are not suitable for cloud environments as they produce terrible response times; due to the long latency and faultiness of wide area...
Provided By Middle East Technical University
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Building Low Cost Cloud Computing Systems
The actual models of cloud computing are based in megalomaniac hardware solutions, being its implementation and maintenance unaffordable to the majority of service providers. The use of jail services is an alternative to current models of cloud computing based on virtualization. Models based in utilization of jail environments instead of...
Provided By The Schwa
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Assessing Database and Network Threats in Traditional and Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is currently one of the most widely-spoken terms in IT. While it offers a range of technological and financial benefits, its wide acceptance by organizations is not yet wide spread. Security concerns are a main reason for this and this paper studies the data and network threats posed...
Provided By University of Warsaw
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Cloud Optimizes Product Development and Delivery
Thieme Publishing Group is a scientific and medical publishing house maintaining offices in seven cities, there challenges were to respond to Internet threat to print publishing with new business model and cost structure and accelerate product development and time to market. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented...
Provided By Cisco
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Streamforce: Outsourcing Access Control Enforcement for Stream Data to the Clouds
As tremendous amount of data being generated everyday from human activity and from devices equipped with sensing capabilities, cloud computing emerges as a scalable and cost-effective platform to store and manage the data. While benefits of cloud computing are numerous, security concerns arising when data and computation are outsourced to...
Provided By Nanyang Technological University
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UK Insurance Firm Uses Mobile App and Cloud Platform to Track Driving Behavior
Aviva, a leading provider of financial services worldwide, wanted to help customers save money by basing auto insurance quotes on the behavior of individual drivers instead of statistics. To better understand potential customers, Aviva needed to collect telematics data from moving vehicles, but deploying on-premises infrastructure was too costly and...
Provided By Microsoft
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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
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Building Internal Cloud at NIC : A Preview
The most of computing environments in the IT support organization like NIC are designed to run in centralized data centre. The centralized infrastructure of various development projects are used to deploy their services on it and connecting remotely to that data centre from all the stations of organization. Currently these...
Provided By Cornell University
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Energy Sustainability in Cooperating Clouds
Now-a-days, cloud federation is paving the way toward new business scenarios in which it is possible to enforce more flexible energy management strategies than in the past. Considering independent cloud providers, each one is exclusively bounded to the specific energy supplier powering its datacenter. The situation radically changes if the...
Provided By Università degli Studi di Genova
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On the Stability of a Market-Oriented Cloud Computing Model with Time-Varying Workloads
In this paper, the authors carry out a stability analysis of a previously introduced market-oriented cloud computing model. They introduce a necessary condition for the asymptotic stability of the system, and provide a mathematical proposition that enables the use of passivity for the analysis of stability in this model. Moreover,...
Provided By University of New Haven
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Getting started with the cloud: A step-by-step enterprise implementation guide
More enterprises are moving applications to the cloud every day, seeking faster implementation, more flexibility and lower cost. But not everyone has a master plan; these decisions are sometimes made on the fly with little forethought.
To help you succeed, this Rackspace white paper presents a step-by-step guide to...Provided By Rackspace
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Enterprise-grade test and development in the cloud
The question is now not whether to use the cloud, but how, when and for what. Enterprise users face particular challenges. In many cases they operate mature mission-critical applications, and changes are often subject to strict procedures. Notwithstanding the clear benefits, the move from a secure private infrastructure to an...
Provided By Rackspace
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Fit to burst: A practitioner's guide to cloudbursting
Cloudbursting has frequently been misrepresented, with some believing that bursting can occur almost instantaneously in response to unanticipated outages or unforeseen peaks in demand. Among those who understand the not-insignificant timescales required to acquire and provision new compute capacity from a cloud provider, this has led to the broader concept...
Provided By Rackspace
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Consideration for the cloud: The process every enterprise should think through
Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in enterprise IT today. However, amidst all the hype and misinformation, it is critical that enterprise decision makers consider the cloud as a viable strategic resource for their IT environment. This Rackspace white paper discusses the IT challenges enterprises face and how...
Provided By Rackspace
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A decision maker's guide to hybrid and cloud computing
More IT organisations are achieving tangible cost efficiencies from the intelligent use of cloud computing and hosting solutions. At the same time, vendors are busy rebranding their products as cloud or cloud enabled solutions. How do you work out what can and will work for your organisation?
This Rackspace...Provided By Rackspace
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Unlocking the enterprise cloud: How the OpenStack project eliminates cloud lock-in
Cloud computing stands well-poised to help enterprises significantly improve their IT speed, agility and costs. However, the fear of technology 'lock-in' - difficulty in efficiently switching cloud hosting providers or platforms due to enterprise size and scale - continues to discourage large organisations from realising the benefits of cloud. This...
Provided By Rackspace
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The Linkage between The Oil And Non-Oil Sectors: A Panel VAR Approach
Recent empirical studies have shown an inverse relation between natural resource intensity and long-term growth, implying that the natural resources generally impede economic growth through various channels (the "natural resource curse"). This paper departs from these studies by exploring the inter-sectoral linkages between oil and non-oil sectors in a cross-country...
Provided By International Monetary Fund
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Information Disclosure Policy: Do States~ Data Processing Efforts Help More Than The Information Disclosure Itself?
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) was expected to reduce health risks stemming from emissions of hazardous chemicals by increasing public pressure on polluters. However, it is a massive and complex dataset, requiring significant expertise to interpret in its raw form. State governments have attempted to mitigate the TRI's information processing...
Provided By National Bureau of Economic Research
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On the Complexity of Power Minimization Schemes in Data Center Networks
In this paper, the authors consider migration of virtual machines in a data center to minimize network power consumption. Network power is consumed when switches are turned on, and conserved when they are turned off; the optimization problem then is to site virtual machines within the data center to achieve...
Provided By Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Rendering Adaptation to Address Communication and Computation Constraints in Cloud Mobile Gaming
A new Cloud Mobile Gaming (CMG) approach, where the responsibility of executing the gaming engines, including the most compute intensive tasks of graphic rendering, is put on cloud servers instead of the mobile devices, has the potential for enabling mobile users to play the same rich Internet games available to...
Provided By Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Enhancing MapReduce Via Asynchronous Data Processing
The MapReduce programming model simplifies large-scale data processing on commodity clusters by having users specify a map function that processes input key/value pairs to generate intermediate key/value pairs, and a reduce function that merges and converts intermediate key/value pairs into final results. Typical MapReduce implementations such as Hadoop enforce barrier...
Provided By Virginia Tech
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The Cloud Computing Paradigm: Characteristics, Opportunities and Research Issues
The Cloud Computing paradigm has become one of the most interesting trends in the arena of distributed computing owing to its numerous merits: Cloud frameworks allow the managers of server farms to adapt and optimize resource usage; the "Start-up" of small and medium enterprises is becoming easier and less onerous,...
Provided By Università della Calabria
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Denial of Service Mitigation Importance in Cloud Computing
During the second half of 2010, Google will be releasing their revolutionary new operating system, Chrome OS. This operating system will run applications "In the cloud" with the user's computer, more than likely simply a netbook with minimalist hardware; playing as simply a pretty version of yesteryear's dumb-terminals. However, with...
Provided By All My Base
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Multi-Tier Diversified Architecture for the Next Generation Internet
The authors propose a next generation Internet architecture that will allow natural sharing of resources among multiple organizations by dynamically reconfiguring and creating a virtual network for a particular application. The architecture called "Internet 3.0" consists of a 3-tier object model. The bottom tier consists of a high-speed network infrastructure...
Provided By Community College of Vermont
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AI Planning and Combinatorial Optimization for Web Service Composition in Cloud Computing
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in web service composition due to its importance in practical applications. At the same time, cloud computing is gradually evolving as a widely used computing platform where many different web services are published and available in cloud data centers. The issue...
Provided By Community College of Vermont
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Benefits to Cloud Computing
The Cloud Computing phenomenon has arrived. After many false starts and bobbled introductions, it is now safe to say that the world has reached the Cloud Age. Everyone is talking about it. Over the last 12 months, just about every IT vendor on the planet has introduced a new product,...
Provided By e-ternity Business Continuity Consultants
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The Business Of Music: A National Training Strategy For Business Skills In The Music Industry
The main objective of this paper is to develop a National Training Strategy for Business Skills in the Canadian Music Industry (NTS) that identifies gaps and recommends solutions. This paper is based on the findings of Development of a National Training Strategy for the Canadian Music Industry, Phase 1 (March...
Provided By Cultural Human Resources Council
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On-Demand Virtual Cluster in Cloud Web-Based OS Environment
In Cloud computing environment, there are various important issues, including information security, virtual computing resource management, routing, fault tolerance, and so on. Among these issues, the virtual computing resource management has emerged as one of the most important issues in past few years. As virtualization technologies become more prevalent, each...
Provided By National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC)
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White Paper: The Basics Of Cloud Computing
This paper highlights the friction points associated with cloud computing because there is skepticism among technical stakeholders, especially in the area of security. There are two perspectives on cloud computing. One perspective is the customer consuming cloud services over the Internet and the other perspective is the IT provider seeking...
Provided By Akili Systems
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The Perfect Private / Hybrid Cloud
A transformational shift in Information Technology is under way. The rise of 'On-demand' or 'As-a-Service' hardware and software has I.T. organizations rethinking how infrastructure is purchased and provisioned. Computational commoditization has moved the power from the vendor, long known for lock-in strategies, back to the buyer. This white paper sheds...
Provided By MomentumSI
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A Cloud Computing Architecture Framework for Scalable RFID
RFID is a leading edge technology with some bleed points. Some of the issues in RFID are preventing it from gaining everyday acceptance. Such performance issues associated with RFID systems are limited computational capacity, poor resources and inefficient data management. Hence there is a demanding urge to address these issues...
Provided By www.jiit.ac.in
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Eucalyptus Cloud Computing Platform Administrator Guide
Cloud computing is the delivery of computer resources through a Web service interface (e.g., SOAP or REST) on an as-needed basis. The term "Cloud" refers to the organization of the underlying physical infrastructure remaining opaque (Not Visible) to the end user. In other words, cloud computing gives a user access...
Provided By Eucalyptus Systems
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Cloud Computing in Life Sciences R&D
This paper was motivated by the rapidly growing importance of cloud computing in dealing with the deluge of data raining down on life science R&D organizations from several sources, notably next-generation DNA sequencing systems and -omics tools. At the same time, demand for computationally complex modeling and simulation studies continues...
Provided By Cambridge Healthtech Institute
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Mirror File System for Cloud Computing
The idea of the Mirror File System (MFS) is simple. When a user creates or updates a file, MFS creates or updates it in real time on the local file system and on a file system on a remote server in the Cloud. MFS can also replicate the same updates...
Provided By Twin Peaks Software
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What the Hell Is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing services behave like subscriptions. Usually, one pay a monthly fee - whether per user, per module or add on, based upon total usage, etc - and access the software via a web site or by logging into a remote server. The most obvious benefit of this model is...
Provided By Avrem Technologies
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Cloud Computing: What Is It and Why Should It Matter to Retailers?
Retail has always relied on technology, online retail even more so. However, it is not always possible to build and manage everything in?]house and on?]site; and that is exactly where cloud computing comes in. In essence cloud computing simply means moving things from on?]site servers to remote data centers. Business...
Provided By MetaPack
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Tapping Into the Cloud: eGovernment Solutions and Cloud Computing
Cloud and pay-per-use services are becoming the new standard for IT solutions and the eGovernment movement would serve itself well by integrating fully with the new, dynamic, cost-saving practices that are being made available through cloud computing. Therefore, it is essential that states embrace the administrative opportunities available to them...
Provided By CC Intelligent Solutions
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Cloud Computing and Healthcare: Bad Weather or Sunny Forecast?
In current IT circles, the Internet is often referred to as The Cloud. Think of multiple computers in a giant mesh all interworking together. Now think of many such meshes and step back ? see The Cloud? Although one may not physically see it, The Cloud is there for all...
Provided By SOUNDOFF Computing
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How Bungee Connect Enables Cloud Computing: Integrated and Interactive Cloud-Based Applications
More with less has always been the mantra for CIOs trying to get as much efficiency as possible from existing systems. IT departments are reevaluating their application and platform strategies - looking for innovative ways to cut costs and create competitive advantages. New economic pressures require new solutions that fit...
Provided By Bungee Labs
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Cloud Computing: Need of the Hour
Every decade, a revolution changes the way everyone uses computers. A huge mainframes in the 1960s, minicomputers in the 1970s, personal computers in the 1980s, cell phones and smart phones in the last decade to the emergence of could-computing in recent years. This paper will succinctly discusses the state-of -...
Provided By INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY, NAGPUR
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Insights Into Cloud Computing
The basic point of cloud computing is to avoid acquiring and maintaining computer equipment and software, increasing the ease-of-use and flexibility of the benefit offered by the technology. Cloud computing allows computer technology to be easily accessed as a service over the Internet or via a private network from any...
Provided By Kelley Drye & Warren
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Cloud Computing Changing Data Management: Got Data? Will Crunch Cheap
The Cloud is Enabling Small, Medium, and Large Businesses to Outsource Non-Strategic IT, says the author. "Cloud Computing Gives Businesses the Opportunity to Make their Investments in IT More Strategic and Deliver a Better ROI." Most companies' strategies don't pivot on email or CRM (Customer Relationship Management), for instance, so...
Provided By Cloud 9 Technology
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LANSA & Cloud Computing
The author defines Cloud Computing as follows: Cloud computing is a general concept that incorporates Software as a Service (SaaS), Web 2.0 and other recent, well-known technology trends, in which the common theme is reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users. For example, Google Apps...
Provided By Rippe & Kingston Systems
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Cloud Computing in Discovery: How We Deal With Electronically Stored Information
CLOUD COMPUTING is an e-discovery buzzword. In all likelihood, one can and theirs clients are already using it, whether one know it or not. Cloud computing, sometimes referred to as Software as a Service (SaaS) or Platforms as a Service (PaaS), allows a company to store its data and software...
Provided By Virginia State Bar
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Pricing and Positioning Cloud Computing Services
In this paper, one will find information to help to understand how to position Cloud Computing Services in the solution stack and price them profitably for the prospects and clients. Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,...
Provided By Managed Services Provider University
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Using Cloud Computing for Parallel Analysis of Genome-Wide Datasets
Analysis of today's genome-wide datasets poses ever-increasing demands for computational capacity. For example, imputation, empirical p-values, epistatic analysis or QTL analysis of a large number of traits may easily take days or even months on a single computer. For many analysis tasks, a linear increase in performance can be achieved...
Provided By Biocomputing Platforms
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Cloud-Based Service for Big Spatial Data Technology in Emergence Management
Following the development of spatial information acquisition technology, more and more spatial data have been collected through various approaches. There has been a full utilization of geospatial information in emergency management than the past. Increasing demands are being put forward on use of spatial information in emergence system. Recent evolutions...
Provided By Henan Polytechnic University
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Secure and Dependable 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 clear, such a service is also relinquishing users' physical possession of their outsourced data, which inevitably poses new security risks...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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Musings on the Cloud - A Customer Oriented Concept Formation on Cloud Computing With Respect to SME
Cloud computing is an entirely new computing paradigm. It profoundly changes the procurement, maintenance and disposal process of information technology. However actual definitions focus on technical rather than economical aspects of cloud computing. Within this paper recently published cloud definitions are investigated. Determined definatory features are evaluated and grouped into...
Provided By Information Systems Evaluation and Integration Group
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CometCloud: An Autonomic Cloud Engine
Clouds typically have highly dynamic demands for resources with highly heterogeneous and dynamic workloads. For example, the workloads associated with the application can be quite dynamic, both in terms of the number of tasks processed as well as computation requirements of each task. Furthermore, different applications may have very different...
Provided By Rutgers