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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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Medical Diagnosis Expert System as Service in Cloud
With the technological advancements in information technology, cloud computing provides several opportunities and services to users like storing personal information, accessing various web services for online transactions, online diagnosis systems etc.,. But security in cloud is biggest challenge which poses threat to individual privacy and misuse without knowledge of data...
Provided By International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology(IACSIT)
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Cloud Computing and Its Vision 2015!!
Cloud computing - "The cloud" is a familiar cliche for the internet, but when combined with "Computing", the meaning gets bigger and fuzzier. Being built on decades of research; Cloud Computing utilizes all recent achievements in virtualization, distributed and utility computing and networking. It implies a service oriented architecture through...
Provided By International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology(IACSIT)
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Cloud Computing Regulation: An Attempt to Protect Personal Data Transmission to Cross-Border Cloud Computing Storage Services
Cloud computing has become popular for its users who need low-cost and large scale computing. Lately, international and regional organizations as well as governments have begun to understand the legal impact of cross border cloud computing storage service on individuals' personal data. To meet the need of personal data protection...
Provided By International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology(IACSIT)
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Towards a Method for Decision Support in Multi-cloud Environments
Providers of cloud services as well as the cloud services themselves differ in the business models, functionality, quality of service, cost, value, etc. which makes the choice of a provider and a service difficult. Beyond that the complexity and lack of transparency with respect to cost and quality render the...
Provided By IARIA
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Defining Intercloud Federation Framework for Multi-Provider Cloud Services Integration
This paper presents the on-going research to define the InterCloud Federation Framework (ICFF) which is a part of the general InterCloud Architecture Framework (ICAF) proposed by the authors. ICFF attempts to address the interoperability and integration issues in provisioning on-demand multi-provider multi-domain heterogeneous cloud infrastructure services. The paper describe the...
Provided By IARIA
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A Look at Cloud Architecture Interoperability Through Standards
Enabling cloud infrastructures to evolve into a transparent platform while preserving integrity raises interoperability issues. How components are connected needs to be addressed. Interoperability requires standard data models and communication encoding technologies compatible with the existing Internet infrastructure. To reduce vendor lock-in situations, cloud computing must implement universal strategies regarding...
Provided By IARIA
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Community Clouds a Centralized Approach
Community cloud is one of the rising ideas in the area of cloud computing. Many companies do not move into the cloud, as they need tailored solutions to ensure industry specific security and regulatory requirements. A community cloud can perfectly fulfill this requirement and costs can be spread among several...
Provided By IARIA
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Eliciting Risk, Quality and Cost Aspects in Multi-Cloud Environments
With the increasing number of providers offering cloud-based services, new opportunities arise to build applications capable of avoiding vendor lock-in issues. Such applications are developed in multi-cloud environments that allow replacing services with those offered by alternative providers. While this may improve quality and provide independence from a single cloud...
Provided By IARIA
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CloudState: End-to-End WAN Monitoring for Cloud-Based Applications
Modern data centres are increasingly moving towards more sophisticated cloud-based infrastructures, where servers are consolidated, backups are simplified and where resources can be scaled up, across distributed cloud sites, if necessary. Placing applications and data stores across sites has a cost, in terms of the hosting at a given site,...
Provided By IARIA
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Elastic-TOSCA: Supporting Elasticity of Cloud Application in TOSCA
The Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) is an emerging framework aiming at enhancing the portability of cloud applications by standardizing their life cycle management in a vendor-neutral way. TOSCA captures the description of cloud application and infrastructure services, the relationships between parts of the services, and the...
Provided By IARIA
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Using Patterns to Move the Application Data Layer to the Cloud
Cloud services allow for hosting applications partially or completely in the Cloud by migrating their components and data. Especially with respect to data migration, a series of functional and non-functional challenges like data confidentiality arise when considering private and public Cloud data stores. In this paper, the authors identify some...
Provided By IARIA
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A Cloud Platform to Support User-Provided Mobile Services
The rapid evolution of mobile computing, together with the spread of social networks is increasingly moving the role of users from information and services consumers to actual producers. Currently, since most of the critical aspects related to user generated contents have been addressed, the main issues related to service generation...
Provided By IARIA
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A DSL for Logistics Clouds
Cloud is a new area of specialization in the computing world, and, as such, it has not been explicitly addressed by traditional programming languages and environments. Therefore, there is a need to create Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) for it. This paper presents such a DSL that targets logistics clouds, i.e....
Provided By IARIA
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Seamlessly Enabling the Use of Cloud Resources in Workflows
The hosting of large on-premise computational resources is common practice. Cloud Computing offers a promising, alternative infrastructure for using scalable on-demand off-premise resources. However, outsourcing whole applications is not a cost optimal solution in some scenarios, because the already existing on-premise resources are not considered. A flexible integration of additional...
Provided By IARIA
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Cloud Terminals for Ticketing Systems
In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of a thin device implemented on a cloud platform for terminal devices on the front end of ticketing systems. Therefore, they propose the evolution of the traditional architecture of ticketing for a cloud based architecture in which the core processes of ticketing...
Provided By IARIA
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To Reserve or Not to Reserve: Optimal Online Multi-Instance Acquisition in IaaS Clouds
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds offer diverse instance purchasing options. A user can either run instances on demand or pay only for what it uses, or it can prepay to reserve instances for a long period, during which a usage discount is entitled. An important problem facing a user is how these...
Provided By University of Toledo
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A Secure Data Forwarding Schema for Cloud Storage Systems
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 the data and services may not be fully trustworthy. This unique paradigm brings about many new security challenges, which have not...
Provided By Interscience Open Access Journals
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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 of a system to automatically provision and deprovision computing resources on demand as workloads change. However, elasticity still lacks...
Provided By Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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On-demand Webcast: Ensuring Project Portfolio Management Success
Profitable new product and service development in today's market depends on maximizing resources and minimizing time to market. Successful enterprises prudently invest the right resources in the right projects to advance their strategies -- while completing quality work on schedule and within budget. To accomplish this objective launching successful products...
Provided By SAP
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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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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, engineering consultancies and the insurance industry to fulfill statutory requirements and provide professional services. As the demands for this type of work become more...
Provided By Springer Healthcare
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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 recent research proposals offer tenants a virtual cluster abstraction, emulating physical networks. Whereas offering dedicated virtual network abstractions is a significant step in...
Provided By University of Economics, Prague
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Demystifying the Cloud for SMBs
YouTube, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Flckr, If the user use any of these services in their day-to-day life, then the users are already using cloud computing. Look around their business, too. Chances they are also using cloud services, but just not calling it that. And according to recent industry reports, small...
Provided By OSF Global Services
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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 plan, operate and analyze power systems. In this paper, the authors explore the reasons for this phenomenon. They identify...
Provided By KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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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 devices' content - suffers from scalability issues. Then, they present StreamSmart, a distributed system for real-time video streaming of Smartphone...
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 offloading communication between Smartphones on the cloud. Along the way toward C2C, they study the performance of device-clones hosted in various virtualization environments...
Provided By SapientStone Games
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A Cloud-Based Component Marketplace Enabling Privacy-Friendly Big Data Applications
The development of IT solutions that meet end-users? privacy requirements is notoriously difficult. With the contemporary Big Data and Cloud Computing trends, these problems are highly critical, as information must be processed on an unprecedented scale. In this contribution, the authors describe a platform aiming at bringing the relevant stakeholders...
Provided By Fraunhofer IAIS
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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 network coding-based distributed storage systems. NC-Audit combines, for the first time, the following desired properties: efficient checking of data integrity, efficient...
Provided By Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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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 directed arcs represent transitions between states. Such models provide insights on the system dynamics, but are seldom used...
Provided By University of Central England in Birmingham
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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 integrate and customize two or more cloud services for internal and external users. The solution adopted by many companies is a hybrid cloud...
Provided By RiverMeadow Software
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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 job. Mapping performance requirements to the underlying resources in the cloud is challenging. Resource under-provisioning will inevitably...
Provided By Department of Information Technology (DIT)
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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 public providers of cloud computing services. On-demand pricing, where consumers are not required to give advance notice of requirements, does not aid the provider...
Provided By Springer Healthcare
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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 demanding in the universities, colleges and schools. Cloud Computing is an Internet based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information, are provided to computers...
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 implies a service oriented architecture, reduced information technology overhead for the end-user, great flexibility, reduced total cost of ownership, on-demand services and many...
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 initiative for small businesses that cannot afford to invest in ICT infrastructure but need to benefit from the rewards of conducting business...
Provided By University of Sofia
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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 representative achievement of cloud computing resources scheduling, and then according to the problem that there are large gap between...
Provided By JATIT
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A Remote Attestation Approach for a Secure Virtual Machine Migration in Federated Cloud Environments
Now-a-days, cloud computing is considered as a new charming technology, where new opportunities in ICT world are becoming real. Cloud is appealing many IT companies, but the largest business is in hand of big cloud operators. In the near future the scenario could change, and becoming much more complex even...
Provided By University of Memphis
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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 indeed a way to boost any enterprise mind in opting for such service. Cloud Computing offers...
Provided By Charles Sturt University
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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 networked Virtual Machines (VMs). As applications, especially data-intensive applications, often need to communicate with data frequently, the network I/O performance...
Provided By University of Wisconsin–River Falls
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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 QoS requirements of critical service-based processes. However, the negotiation process for customers is a significant task particularly when...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Interoperability and Portability of Cloud Service Enablers in a PaaS Environment
Now-a-days, the competition in the telecommunications market is exciting and new entities with value-added services have emerged over the core network of Telecommunications operators (Telcos). These new participants have taken out the operators' relevance since they are entirely agnostic from infrastructure service connectivity. Therefore Telcos, like Portugal Telecom Inovacao (PTIN),...
Provided By University of Milano-Bicocca
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Cloud Services From a Consumer Perspective
Although there is an increased attention on Cloud Computing in the academic literature in the recent years, most research work focus on technical aspects of cloud computing. Research on consumers' preferences for cloud services is limited to studies from consulting and industry companies. This paper fills the gap by empirically...
Provided By Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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Cloud Computing: New Business Opportunities for Telecommunications Companies?
Cloud computing has recently shifted into the center of attention of Telecommunications Companies. Deutsche Telekom, for example, just announced the importance of cloud computing as one of their leading growth sectors (Deutsche Telekom Press Release, 2010). Also other important telecommunication players such as AT&T, Vodafone and Telef?nica are expanding their...
Provided By Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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Challenges and Opportunities of Cloud Computing
In recent years, Cloud Computing has become an emerging technology that gains wide influence on IT systems. Cloud Computing is a distributed computing model for enabling service-oriented, on-demand network access to rapidly scalable resources. Such resources include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), development and run-time Platforms as a Service (PaaS),...
Provided By Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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Basing Obfuscation on Simple Tamper-Proof Hardware Assumptions
Code obfuscation is one of the most powerful concepts in cryptography. It could yield functional encryption, digital rights management, and maybe even secure cloud computing. However, general code obfuscation has been proven impossible and the research then focused on obfuscating very specific functions, studying weaker security definitions for obfuscation, and...
Provided By Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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A Declarative Recommender System for Cloud Infrastructure Services Selection
The cloud infrastructure services landscape advances steadily leaving users in the agony of choice. Therefore, the authors present CloudRecommender, a new declarative approach for selecting Cloud-based infrastructure services. CloudRecommender automates the mapping of users' specified application requirements to cloud service configurations. They formally capture cloud service configurations in ontology and...
Provided By Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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(MC2)2: A Generic Decision-Making Framework and Its Application to Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a disruptive technology, representing a new model for Information Technology (IT) solution engineering and management that promises to introduce significant cost savings and other benefits. The adoption of Cloud computing requires a detailed comparison of infrastructure alternatives, taking a number of aspects into careful consideration. Existing methods...
Provided By Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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Effective Analysis of Cloud Based Intrusion Detection System
The goal of IDS is to analyze events on the network and identify attacks. The increasing number of network security related incidents makes it necessary for organizations to actively protect their sensitive data with the installation of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). People are paid more attention on intrusion detection which...
Provided By Adhiyamaan College of Engineering
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Analysis of the Characteristics and Trusted Security of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing allows people the way to sharing distributed resources and services that belong to various organizations and sites. The cloud computing has its own concept, technical, economic and user experience characteristics. The service oriented, loose coupling, strong fault tolerant, business model and ease use are main characteristics of cloud...
Provided By Adhiyamaan College of Engineering
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Cloud Based School Administration & Data Management Application Using WOLF SaaS Development Platform
Established in 1984, HeadStart is an independent educational institution with more than 25 years of experience. The school firmly believes that education in the foundation years is pivotal for the child's growth and development. To match the school's growth plans, HeadStart decided to use WOLF Platform to automate certain key...
Provided By WOLF Frameworks
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Survey on Security Issues in Cloud Computing and Associated Mitigation Techniques
Cloud Computing holds the potential to eliminate the requirements for setting up of high-cost computing infrastructure for IT-based solutions and services that the industry uses. It promises to provide a flexible IT architecture, accessible through internet from lightweight portable devices. This would allow multi-fold increase in the capacity and capabilities...
Provided By Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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Grid Computing in a SaaS Environment
Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) is revolutionizing how retailers leverage their IT dollars to more efficiently access powerful planning applications. In the past, retailers purchased planning systems and maintained on-premise hardware. Besides requiring a large initial investment, these systems were expensive to maintain and upgrade. In contrast, SaaS requires a minimal up-front investment...
Provided By RFPConnect
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PKIS: Practical Keyword Index Search on Cloud Datacenter
This paper highlights the importance of the interoperability of the encrypted DB in terms of the characteristics of DB and efficient schemes. Although most prior researches have developed efficient algorithms under the provable security, the authors do not focus on the interoperability of the encrypted DB. In order to address...
Provided By Springer
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Demonstration of the OPTIMIS toolkit for Cloud Service Provisioning
The authors demonstrate the OPTIMIS toolkit for scalable and dependable service platforms and architectures that enable flexible and dynamic provisioning of cloud services. The innovations demonstrated are aimed at optimizing the whole service life cycle based on aspects such as trust, risk, eco-efficiency, cost, performance requirements and legal constraints. Adaptive...
Provided By Ume universitet
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Scheduling and Monitoring of Internally Structured Services in Cloud Federations
Cloud infrastructure providers may form Cloud federations to cope with peaks in resource demand and to make large-scale service management simpler for service providers. To realize Cloud federations, a number of technical and managerial difficulties need to be solved. The authors present ongoing work addressing three related key management topics,...
Provided By Ume universitet
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Modeling and Placement of Structured Cloud Services
Virtual machine placement is the process of mapping virtual machines to available physical hosts within a datacenter or on a remote datacenter in a cloud federation. Normally, service owners cannot influence the placement of service components beyond choosing infrastructure provider and deployment zone at that provider. For some services, however,...
Provided By Ume universitet
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A General Approach to Service Deployment in Cloud Environments
The cloud computing landscape has recently developed into a spectrum of cloud architectures, leading to a broad range of management tools for similar operations but specialized for certain deployment scenarios. This both hinders the efficient reuse of algorithmic innovations within cloud management operations and increases the heterogeneity between different management...
Provided By Ume universitet
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10 tech trends to watch in 2011
Based on the results of surveys conducted at The Experts Conference last year, analysts at Quest Software have put together this set of predictions for the upcoming year.
This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.Provided By Gil Kirkpatrick
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Designing Private and Hybrid Clouds
The continued expansion of cloud adoption across a broad spectrum of industries and use cases has helped to solidify the establishment of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as a viable, cost-effective, and scalable IT delivery model. As the adoption of public cloud resources has proven effective across a diverse set of use cases,...
Provided By Rights Publishing
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Building Scalable Applications In the Cloud
With the continued expansion of social networks, online media, and various other online communities, website user traffic has become dynamic and oftentimes unpredictable as flash crowd and viral events drive untold numbers of users to sites that may have previously seen little traffic. These situations present many new and unique...
Provided By Rights Publishing
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Quantifying the Benefits of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform
Cloud computing as a term has come to encompass several levels of IT resource delivery. This research focuses on the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) level. IaaS refers to offering on-demand, raw compute (servers), storage, bandwidth and related resources that are paid for based on usage and accessed via an API. Examples of...
Provided By Rights Publishing
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Social Gaming in the Cloud: A Technical White Paper
As social networks and Internet-connected handheld devices have continued their meteoric rise, they have spawned numerous unique and previously unexplored methods of user interaction as well as exposed new potential sources of revenue. The applications that have established a new niche within these online networks are those involving social games....
Provided By Rights Publishing
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Migrating to the Cloud Starts with Dev & Test
Companies are learning what it takes to move to the cloud by starting with development and test. Rather than migrating existing production applications to the cloud, they are taking a lower barrier to entry approach. Beginning with new development projects, enterprises are learning to use and manage cloud resources and...
Provided By Rights Publishing
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Load Balancing in the Cloud: Tools, Tips and Techniques
Load Balancing is a method to distribute workload across one or more servers, network interfaces, hard drives, or other computing resources. Typical datacenter implementations rely on large, powerful (and expensive) computing hardware and network infrastructure, which are subject to the usual risks associated with any physical device, including hardware failure,...
Provided By Rights Publishing
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Social Gaming in the Cloud a Business White Paper
In the social gaming sector, time to market is one of the critical factors to success. The ability to quickly release new games is a key element to maintaining market share or reaching a new target market. Social gaming trends are unpredictable with popularity booming overnight - then shifting to...
Provided By Rights Publishing
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RightScale Grid: Grid Computing Applications in the Cloud
Grid computing is the application of multiple computational resources in a collaborative effort to perform a large or complex task. The ultimate product of this processing may be the application of a single computational algorithm or it may involve a more complex multi-phase workflow. Grid applications in classic datacenters can...
Provided By Rights Publishing
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Business Process Configuration in the Cloud: How to Support and Analyze Multi-Tenant Processes?
Lion's share of cloud research has been focusing on performance related problems. However, cloud computing will also change the way in which business processes are managed and supported, e.g., more and more organizations will be sharing common processes. In the classical setting, where product software is used, different organizations can...
Provided By Eindhoven University of Technology
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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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Towards a Generic Value Network for Cloud Computing
With the rise of a ubiquitous provision of computing resources over the past years, cloud computing has been established as a prominent research topic. In contrast to many other research works, this paper does not focus on technical aspects of cloud computing but rather takes a business perspective. By taking...
Provided By Technische Universität München
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Designing of Cloud-Based Virtual Factory Information System
In the manufacturing industry, customers' requirements vary all the time, a way that to increase capacity and add capabilities of factories without investing in new infrastructure becomes essential. An advanced information management system to share valuable information and knowledge among collaborative factories is demanded. The concept of \"Cloud\" can encompasses...
Provided By University of Uyo
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Towards Efficient Design and Implementation of a Hadoop-based Distributed Video Transcoding System in Cloud Computing Environment
In this paper, the authors propose a Hadoop-based Distributed Video Transcoding System in a cloud computing environment that transcodes various video codec formats into the MPEG-4 video format. This system provides various types of video content to heterogeneous devices such as smart phones, personal computers, television, and pads. They design...
Provided By Konkuk University
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An Approach for Investigating Perspective of Cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Cloud Computing extend the areas of virtualization, clustering, IT management, Web Architecture, Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and brings new dimension in extending utility computing. The primary aim of Cloud Computing is to provide mobility deployment of web-based application by means of easily accessible tools and interfaces for using and manipulating infrastructure....
Provided By RIMT-Institute of Engineering & Technology
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A Comprehensive Solution to Cloud Traffic Tribulations
Cloud computing is generally believed to be the most gifted technological revolution in computing and it will soon become an industry standard. It is believed that cloud will replace the traditional office setup. However a big question mark exists over the network performance when the cloud traffic explodes. The authors...
Provided By Jagan Institute of Management Studies
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A Comparison and Critique of Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and Nimbus
Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and Nimbus are three major open-source cloud-computing software platforms. The overall function of these systems is to manage the provisioning of virtual machines for a cloud providing infrastructure-as-a-service. These various open-source projects provide an important alternative for those who do not wish to use a commercially provided cloud....
Provided By University of Notre Dame
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GridSpace Scripting Environment - From Common Component Architecture to Cloud Components
This paper presents an overview of the experience from investigating various approaches to component-based scientific applications on grids and clouds. The developed frameworks include the MOCCA component framework based on Common Component Architecture (CCA) standard, as well as GridSpace virtual laboratory and workbench for script-based programming and running distributed collaborative...
Provided By University of Notre Dame
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Secure and Verifiable Outsourcing of Large-Scale Biometric Computations
Cloud computing services are becoming prevalent and readily available today, bringing to one economies of scale and making large scale computation feasible. Security and privacy considerations, however, stand on the way of fully utilizing the benefits of such services and architectures. In this paper, the authors address the problem of...
Provided By University of Notre Dame
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Fine-Grained Access Control in the Chirp Distributed File System
Although the distributed file-system is a widely used technology in local area networks, it has seen less use on the wide area networks that connect clusters, clouds, and grids. One reason for this is access control: existing file-system technologies require either the client machine to be fully trusted, or the...
Provided By University of Notre Dame
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Converting a High Performance Application to an Elastic Cloud Application
Over the past decade, high performance applications have embraced parallel programming and computing models. While parallel computing offers advantages such as good utilization of dedicated hardware resources, it also has several drawbacks such as poor fault-tolerance, scalability, and ability to harness available resources during run-time. The advent of cloud computing...
Provided By University of Notre Dame
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Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or Just New Bottles?
Cloud computing is an extremely successful paradigm of service oriented computing and has revolutionized the way computing infrastructure is abstracted and used. Three most popular cloud paradigms include: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). The concept however can also be...
Provided By VLDB Endowment
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Cloudy: A Modular Cloud Storage System
This demonstration presents Cloudy, a modular cloud storage system. Cloudy provides a highly flexible architecture for distributed data storage and is designed to operate with multiple workloads. Based on a generic data model, Cloudy can be customized to meet application requirements. The goal of this demonstration is to show the...
Provided By VLDB Endowment