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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Live Webcast - Spotlight On: Private Cloud Endpoint Backup
Join us for this LIVE Event on: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:00 am PT | 1:00 pm CT Need total control over your data and destiny? Does your IT strategy mandate on-premise or inside-the-firewall soluti...
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Gold Fields Limited: Gold Mining Firm Deploys Office 365 ProPlus to Reduce Costs, Boost Productivity
Gold Fields Limited is a South African gold mining firm. Headquartered in Johannesburg, the company owns and operates mines on several continents including Africa, Australia, and South America. With e...
Provided By Microsoft
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Cost Effective Selection of Data Center in Cloud Environment
Cloud computing today has now been rising as new technologies and new business models. The increasing cloud computing services offer great opportunities for clients to find the maximum service and fin...
Provided By Daffodil International University
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Multi-Cloud Governance Service Based on Model Driven Policy Generation
Cloud computing is an innovative and promising paradigm that is leading to remarkable changes in the way the authors manage their business. Cloud computing can provide scalable IT infrastructure, QoS-...
Provided By Université de Limoges
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The Challenge of Cloud Control
Today's cloud data center infrastructures are not even near being able to cope with the enormous and rapidly varying capacity demands that will be reality in a near future. So far, very little is unde...
Provided By Lund University
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CloudHKA: A Cryptographic Approach for Hierarchical Access Control in Cloud Computing
Cloud services are blooming recently. They provide a convenient way for data accessing, sharing, and processing. A key ingredient for successful cloud services is to control data access while consider...
Provided By National Chiao Tung University
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Dynamic Virtual Machine Allocation in Cloud Server Facility Systems with Renewable Energy Sources
In this paper, the authors explore the problem of Virtual Machine (VM) allocation in a network of cloud server facilities which are deployed in different geographical areas. Each cloud server facility...
Provided By University of the Witwatersrand
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FHI 360 Nonprofit Organization Chooses Microsoft Office 365, Gains Global Productivity
FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization working to improve lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Following an acquisition, half of its employees used G...
Provided By Microsoft
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Migrating Into the Cloud: The Brownfield Vs. Greenfield Opportunity
The IT world is a complex space and companies may not have the money to completely replace all of their systems. Therefore, the authors need solutions to optimize what they already have. This white pa...
Provided By RiverMeadow Software
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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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Enriching Mobile Multimedia Applications Using Cloud Mobile Media
Cloud Mobile Gaming (CMG), an approach that enables rich multiplayer Internet games on mobile devices, where compute intensive tasks like graphic rendering are executed on cloud servers in response to...
Provided By IRD India
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Articulate Features for Mobile-Social TV System Using Cloud Computing
The recent cloud computing technology, with its rich resources to compensate for the limitations of mobile devices and connections, can potentially provide an ideal platform to support the desired mob...
Provided By IRD India
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Software as a Service in Cloud Computing
Software as a Service (SaaS) is one of the delivery models of cloud computing in which service are provided by the service providers and client make use of it through Internet. Here the authors presen...
Provided By Akshaya College of Engineering and Technology
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A New Trusted and Secured E-commerce Architeture for Cloud Computing
Cloud computing platform gives people the opportunity for sharing resources, services and information among the people of the whole world. In private cloud system, information is shared among the pers...
Provided By Khulna University
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Analysis Based Multi-Cloud Interconnection on Sky Computing
The impact of sky computing to business world and scientific applications reduces hardware cost, reduces cost on investing infrastructure and software's for managing huge database such as Google or Am...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Joint Precoding and Multivariate Backhaul Compression for the Downlink of Cloud Radio Access Networks
In this paper, the authors explains the joint design of pre-coding and backhaul compression strategies for the downlink of cloud radio access networks. In these systems, a central encoder is connected...
Provided By New Jersey Institute of Technology
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DB Results: Smart Collaboration - Easy Set-Up
DB Results is an independent professional services consultancy that specializes in the delivery of transformation programs and systems integration. Growing fast, DB Results was hiring five to ten new ...
Provided By Microsoft
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Business Intelligence Architecture Based on Internet of Things
On the basis of the analysis of the operating characteristics of new intelligent network - Internet of things, the paper holds that the combination of the Internet of things and cloud computing is the...
Provided By JATIT
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Nimble Algorithms for Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a new paradigm where data is stored across multiple servers and the goal is to compute a function of all the data. The authors consider a simple model where each server uses polynom...
Provided By Georgia Tech
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Security Issues and Solutions for Cloud Computing
The "Lower costs" of cloud services, "Flexibility" and the "Speed of deployment" are all vastly demanded by most of the organizations in today's world. However, a common concern remains amongst large ...
Provided By IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Correct Solutions: IT Provider Gives SMB Customers Flexibility with Mixed Cloud and On-Premises Solutions
Correct Solutions is an IT consultancy that serves small businesses in the Sydney, Australia, area. It prides itself on understanding each customer's business problems and finding technology that trul...
Provided By Microsoft
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Secured Image Sharing and Deletion in the Cloud Storage Using Access Policies
Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services, Anything as a Service (AaaS), over the web on demand basis. It uses web and central remote servers to maintain ...
Provided By Engg Journals Publications
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Analyzing the Critical Issues of Mobile Users in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new paradigm for hosting and delivering services over the Internet. Mobile Cloud Computing is widely accepted as a concept that can significantly improve the ...
Provided By Engg Journals Publications
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The Cloud Needs Cross-Layer Data Handling Annotations
Now-a-days, an ever-increasing number of service providers take advantage of the cloud computing paradigm in order to efficiently offer services to private users, businesses, and governments. However,...
Provided By RWSoftware
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An Analysis of Security Issues for Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is a flexible, cost-effective, and proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet. However, cloud Computing presents an added level of risk b...
Provided By Creative Commons
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A Real-Time Group Auction System for Efficient Allocation of Cloud Internet Applications
Increasing number of the cloud-based Internet applications demands for efficient resource and cost management. This paper proposes a real-time group auction system for the cloud instance market. The s...
Provided By Nanyang Technological University
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Verification of a Self-Configuration Protocol for Distributed Applications in the Cloud
In this paper, the authors focus on a self-configuration protocol, which is able to configure a whole distributed application without requiring any centralized server. The high degree of parallelism i...
Provided By INRIA
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Content-Based Scheduling of Virtual Machines (VMs) in the Cloud
Organizations of all sizes are shifting their IT infrastructures to the cloud because of its cost efficiency and convenience. Because of the on-demand nature of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) ...
Provided By University of Idaho
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Framework for Secure Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has changed the entire process that distributed computing used to present e.g. Grid computing, server client computing. Cloud computing describes recent developments in many existing I...
Provided By Malaysia University of Science and Technology
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CLOUD-SLA: Service Level Agreement for Cloud Computing
In the last few years, the cloud computing becomes the most important developing platform for both scientific and commercial application. Clouds are rapidly becoming an important platform for scientif...
Provided By ISSN
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Mobile Cloud Computing: Approaches and Issues
During the last few years, there is a revolutionary development in the field of mobile computing, multimedia communication and wireless technology. Together with an explosive growth of the mobile comp...
Provided By ISSN
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Security and Privacy Issues of Cloud Computing; Solutions and Secure Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defined cloud computing as a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Optimization of FCFS Based Resource Provisioning Algorithm for Cloud Computing
In this paper, the authors propose an optimized version of the FCFS scheduling algorithm to address the major challenges of task scheduling in cloud. The incoming tasks are grouped on the basis of tas...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Face Recognition Using Mobile Phones and Cloud
Now-a-day's lifestyle has been changed and any one can easily receive information about everyone in the world. It is very useful for person identification it can be obtained from the mobile device and...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Resource Allocation for Antivirus Cloud Appliances
Malware detection or antivirus software has been recently provided as a service in the cloud. A cloud antivirus provider hosts a number of virtual machines each running the same or different antivirus...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Green Computing Under Cloud Environment Proposed Architecture Using Cloud Computing & Thin Client
Private Cloud computing provides attractive & cost efficient Server Based Computing (SBC). The implementation of Thin client computing for private cloud computing will reduce the IT Cost and consumes ...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Data Security Model Enhancement In Cloud Environment
Cloud computing is one of the most emerging technologies which plays an important role in the next generation architecture of IT Enterprise. It has been widely accepted due to its ability to reduce co...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Threshold Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme and Decentralized Erasure Code in Cloud Storage with Secure Data Forwarding
A cloud storage system, used to store large number of data in storage server. Cloud system is used to provide large number storage servers, which provide long-term storage service over the Internet. T...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is a use of computing resources that is delivered as a service over a network. Sharing the data in the cloud depends on the network performance of the data centers. Bandwidth allocatio...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Networks and Wireless Communications (IJCNWC)
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Building a Private HPC Cloud for Compute and Data-Intensive Applications
Traditional HPC (High Performance Computing) clusters are best suited for well-formed calculations. The orderly batch-oriented HPC cluster offers maximal potential for performance per application, but...
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Ajax Cloud9 IDE
Cloud9 IDE empowers Web developers to lead the revolution of Web technologies like HTML5 and JavaScript. The first-ever cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for JavaScript developers, ...
Provided By DEMO
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mSIGNIA
mSIGNIA's Dynamic Device Identity platform provides a safe, reliable device identity for accessing cloud services on Android smartphones, tablets and is available soon on iPhone, Blackberry, Windows a...
Provided By DEMO
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The Economic Consequences of the Diffusion of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is an emerging General Purpose Technology (GPT) that could provide a fundamental contribution to efficiency in the private and public sectors, as well as promote growth, competition, a...
Provided By University of Milan
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A Design of Onto-ACM(Ontology Based Access Control Model) in Cloud Computing Environments
There are a lot of security issues in cloud computing service environments such as virtualization, distributed big data processing, serviceability, traffic-handling, application security, access contr...
Provided By Chosun University
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Enabling the Deployment of Virtual Clusters on the VCOC Experiment of the BonFIRE Federated Cloud
The BonFIRE project has developed a federated cloud that supports experimentation and testing of innovative scenarios from the Internet of Services research community. Virtual Clusters On federated Cl...
Provided By IARIA
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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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NGS Workflow Optimization Using a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
E-science applications involve great deal of data, to satisfy these processing requests, distributed computing paradigms, such as cluster, Grid, Virtual Grid, Cloud Computing, and Hybrid System are gr...
Provided By IARIA
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Accelerating Data-Intensive Applications: A Cloud Computing Approach to Parallel Image Pattern Recognition Tasks
Performance is an open issue in data intensive applications, such as image pattern recognition tasks. To process large-scale datasets with high performance more resources and reliable infrastructures ...
Provided By IARIA
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Cloud Computing: Several Cloud-Oriented Solutions
The current network architectures make difficult reusability and increase costs. These architectures not take into account the changing functional requirements at the application development. Cloud co...
Provided By IARIA
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Towards a SLA-Compliant Cloud Resource Allocator for N-Tier Applications
Cloud vendors commonly offer users IaaS where Virtual Machines (VMs) can be created and run on cloud resources. The resource allocation for each VM is defined by the user and the VM is created on a Ph...
Provided By IARIA
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Alteration Method of Schedule Information on Public Cloud for Preserving Privacy
The authors are currently experiencing an explosion of cloud technologies. However, a cloud service administrator may be an untrustworthy third party. Therefore, companies dealing with confidential in...
Provided By IARIA
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Testing the Suitability of Cassandra for Cloud Computing Environments
Since, relational DataBase Management Systems (DBMSs) are ill-suited to cloud computing environments, multiple efforts are now underway to offer a viable alternative to relational DBMSs. These efforts...
Provided By IARIA
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A Workflow Engine for Computing Clouds
This paper developed a workflow engine that enables the execution of workflows on existing Cloud platforms. The workflow engine automatically delivers the computation of each individual task to the se...
Provided By IARIA
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One Click to Build an on Demand Virtual Cluster in Cloud Web-Based Operating System With Dynamic Loading Prediction Scheduling Algorithm
As virtualization technologies become more prevalent, Cloud users usually encounter the problem of how to build his/her own virtual cluster with a friendly user interface for virtual resource manageme...
Provided By IARIA
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Understanding Cloud Requirements - A Supply Chain Lifecycle Approach
Cloud Computing is offering competitive advantages to companies through flexible and, scalable access to computing resources. More and more companies are moving to cloud environments; therefore unders...
Provided By IARIA
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Cloud Federation
This paper suggests a definition of the term Cloud Federation, a concept of service aggregation characterized by interoperability features, which addresses the economic problems of vendor lock-in and ...
Provided By IARIA
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Introducing Federated WebDAV Access to Cloud Storage Providers
Affordable access to large online hard disks via the Internet has emerged by the continuous evolving of public and private storage clouds. However, difficulties arise as soon as users of such storage ...
Provided By IARIA
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Cloud Credential Vault
While cloud computing presents strong value propositions, it also presents significant headaches to enterprise IT departments, including incompatible billing and purchasing process, no policy enforcem...
Provided By IARIA
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Model-Based Migration of Legacy Software Systems to Scalable and Resource-Efficient Cloud-Based Applications: The CloudMIG Approach
The paper describes the model-based approach CloudMIG. Cloud computing supplies software, platforms, and Infrastructures as a Service (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, respectively) over a network connection. Cl...
Provided By IARIA
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Understanding the Relationship Between SDP and the Cloud
Notions of SDP (Service Delivery Platform) have been widely used in Telcos albeit without a common industry understanding. SDP projects have spearheaded next generations of Telco Service Provider (SP)...
Provided By IARIA
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Financial Business Cloud for High-Frequency Trading
This paper defines a new business cloud model to create an efficient high-frequency trading platform. High-frequency trading systems, built to analyze trends in tick-by-tick financial data and thus to...
Provided By IARIA
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UnaCloud: Opportunistic Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service
This paper presents UnaCloud: an opportunistic cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model implementation, which provides at lower cost than dedicated cloud infrastructures, basic computi...
Provided By IARIA
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Designing an Elastic and Scalable Social Network Application
Central server-based social networks can suffer from overloading caused by social trends and make the service momentarily unavailable preventing users to access it when they most want it. Central serv...
Provided By IARIA
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A Social Network Approach to Provisioning and Management of Cloud Computing Services for Enterprises
This paper proposes a social network approach to the provisioning and management of cloud computing services termed Opportunistic Cloud Computing Services (OCCS), for enterprises; and presents the res...
Provided By IARIA
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A Linear Programming Approach for Optimizing Workload Distribution in a Cloud
Cloud computing's usage-based pricing model creates an incentive for subscribers to optimize the utilization of the rented resources. The goal of the current paper is to devise a formal approach for d...
Provided By IARIA
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Distributed Storage Support in Private Clouds Based on Static Scheduling Algorithms
This paper is focused on an extension to an open source Infrastructure as a Service Cloud called Eucalytpus for supporting distributed storage according to a defined storage strategy. As a proof of co...
Provided By IARIA
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Cloud Capacity Reservation for Optimal Service Deployment
Cloud computing is a profound revolution in the way it offers the computation capability. The Information Technology organizations do not need to oversize their infrastructure anymore, potentially red...
Provided By IARIA
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Measuring Elasticity for Cloud Databases
The rise of the Internet and the multiplication of data sources have multiplied the number of "Bigdata" storage problems. These data sets are not only very big but also tend to grow very fast, sometim...
Provided By IARIA
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Efficient Management of Hybrid Clouds
Cloud computing has become a significant technology trend driven by big players that is transforming the current IT industry. Public cloud computing comes with advantages such as cost savings, high av...
Provided By IARIA
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Cloud Computing and Its Application to Blended Learning in Engineering
The education process in engineering means theory and practice, individual study, group-based projects or experimental work that involves equipment, simulation/emulation software packages and laborato...
Provided By IARIA
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On-Demand Data Integration on the Cloud
On-demand data integration is among the key challenges in Cloud Computing. In this paper, the authors present an ontology-based framework for describing and integrating data on the fly to answer trans...
Provided By IARIA
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Network and Services Monitoring: A Survey in Cloud Computing Environments
Cloud Computing are currently seen as a trend in the computing area for companies, institutions and research groups that seek provision of computational resources on demand. This solution usually work...
Provided By IARIA
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Does Cloud Computing Matter? Networking IT and Services Value in Organizations
In this paper, the authors discuss cloud computing value generation through four company case studies. They argue that cloud computing value is generated through the interactions of organization, IT a...
Provided By IARIA
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Customer Security Concerns in Cloud Computing
There is no consensus about what exactly cloud computing is, but some characteristics are clearly repeated. It is a new distributed computing and business paradigm. It provides computing power, softwa...
Provided By IARIA
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Evaluating a Distributed Identity Provider Trusted Network With Delegated Authentications for Cloud Federation
Federation offers an affordable opportunity for small and medium cloud providers to become as competitive as the biggest counterparts. However, in order to establish a federated cloud ecosystem, it is...
Provided By IARIA
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iPrivacy: A Distributed Approach to Privacy on the Cloud
The increasing adoption of Cloud storage poses a number of privacy issues. Users wish to preserve full control over their sensitive data and cannot accept that it is accessible by the remote storage p...
Provided By IARIA
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A Proactive Energy-Efficient Technique for Change Management in Computing Clouds
The intensive use of portable and thin client devices along with the continuously increasing cost of IT management have pushed large IT companies to look for solutions that allow the use of such devic...
Provided By IARIA
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Feature Modeling of Software as a Service Domain to Support Application Architecture Design
Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm that has gained broad interest in the industry. SaaS architectures vary widely according to the application category and number of tenants. To define ...
Provided By IARIA
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Role of User Profile in Cloud-Based Collaboration Services for Innovation
Enterprises are evolving their businesses from silo-based knowledge to collaborative-based knowledge by promoting open innovation through collaboration in to their technology infrastructure. Despite o...
Provided By IARIA
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Behaviour-Inspired Data Management in the Cloud
Open source cloud computing solutions are still not mature enough to handle data-intensive applications, e.g., scientific simulations. Thus, it is crucial to propose appropriate algorithms and approac...
Provided By IARIA