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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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Need total control over your data and destiny? Does your IT strategy mandate on-premise or inside-the-firewall solutions? Then a private cloud approach to enterprise endpoint backup might be right for...Provided By Code 42 Software
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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-assured services and customizable computing environment. Such scalable and agile environment increases the call for agile and dynamic deployment and governance...
Provided By Université de Limoges
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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 is connected to the conventional power grid network and in addition it is supported by an attached Renewable Energy...
Provided By University of the Witwatersrand
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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 considering the specific features of cloud services. The specific features include great quantity of outsourced data, large number of users, honest-but-curious...
Provided By National Chiao Tung University
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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 Google Apps and the other half used on-premises Microsoft messaging and collaboration solutions. FHI 360 wanted a single, cloud-based suite of...
Provided By Microsoft
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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 understood about how to transform today's data centers (being large, power-hungry facilities, and operated through heroic...
Provided By Lund University
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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 paper examines the differences between Greenfield and Brownfield environments - particularly as it pertains to cloud...
Provided By RiverMeadow Software
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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 present a SaaS in pcloud. pcloud is a distributed system which contains a number of cooperated...
Provided By Akshaya College of Engineering and Technology
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Cloud Computing Architecture:-Services and Business Faces Are Emerging in IT Field
The evolution of cloud computing over the past few years is potentially one of the major advances in the history of computing. However, if cloud computing is to achieve its potential, there needs to be a clear Understanding of the various issues involved, both from the perspectives of the providers...
Provided By Teerthanker Mahaveer University
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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 balancing algorithm". "Reallocation of the Virtual Machines" i.e., migration of the Virtual Machines when cloud provider is...
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 gaming commands on a mobile device, and the resulting video has to be streamed back to the mobile device in...
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 mobile services. In this paper, Articulate Features for Mobile-Social TV System using Cloud Computing (CloudMoV) is proposed. This system effectively utilizes...
Provided By IRD India
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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 Amazon. Sky computing improves greater efficiency and performance on multiple clouds. Interconnection of multiple clouds is possible in sky computing and...
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 to multiple multi-antenna Base Stations (BSs) via finite-capacity backhaul links. At the central encoder, pre-coding is followed by compression...
Provided By New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Cirrity Fortifies Operations and Grows Business on FlexPod With Clustered Data ONTAP and VMware VCloud Suite
Cirrity provides customers - especially those in heavily regulated industries - with all the benefits of cloud computing. To support a growing customer base, Cirrity requires an IT infrastructure that can scale simply and seamlessly. Accommodate new customers and more data, keep IT costs in check, and provide high performance...
Provided By NetApp
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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 persons who are in that cloud. Presently, different types of internet based systems are running in Cloud Computing environment. E-commerce is...
Provided By Khulna University
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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 people a month, outgrowing its ageing in-house IT systems and impacting reliability. The company wanted to provide the latest collaboration technology...
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 design to cope with massive data in the future. The core of business intelligence lies in...
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 polynomial time and space, but communication among servers being more expensive is ideally bounded by...
Provided By Georgia Tech
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Continuous Double Auction Mechanism and Bidding Strategies in Cloud Computing Markets
Cloud computing has been an emerging model which aims at allowing customers to utilize computing resources hosted by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). More and more consumers rely on CSPs to supply computing and storage service on the one hand, and CSPs try to attract consumers on favorable terms on the...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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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 enterprises is about the handover of the control of data to cloud providers. It is true that many technology...
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 truly fits. Correct Solutions is excited about a new foundation for Small and Midsize Business (SMB) growth: Windows Server 2012 Essentials, which...
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 data and applications. Outsourcing data storage and maintenance to third-party cloud services reduces data management costs, but...
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 user experience when accessing mobile services. By removing the limitations of mobile devices with respect to storage and computing...
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, while cloud computing allows to transparently scale back-end functionality such as computing and storage, the implied distributed sharing of resources has severe implications...
Provided By RWSoftware
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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 system is designed based on a combinatorial double auction, and its applicability and effectiveness are evaluated in terms of resource efficiency and...
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 involved in this protocol makes its design complicated and error-prone. In order to check that this protocol works as expected, they...
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) clouds, hundreds of thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) may be deployed and terminated in a single large cloud data...
Provided By University of Idaho
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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 because essential services are often outsourced to a third party, which makes it harder to maintain data security and privacy, support...
Provided By Creative Commons
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An Approach Secret Sharing Algorithm in Cloud Computing Security Over Single to Multi Clouds
Now-a-day's rapidly increased use of cloud computing in the many organization and IT industries and provides new software with low cost. So the cloud computing give the users lot of benefits with low cost and of data accessibility through Internet. The ensuring security risks of the cloud computing is the...
Provided By VIT Software, LLC
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A Brief Review of Mobile Cloud Computing Opportunities
Cloud Computing (CC) is becoming popular as the latest technology in the infrastructure of the computing world. The CC allows the users to make use of the resources when needed. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) combines the cloud computing concept into a mobile setting and manages to deter barriers associated with...
Provided By Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
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A Distributed Service and Business Model for Providing Cloud Computing Service
Cloud computing model has enabled IT organizations to serve the users globally. It gives the services like Platform as a Service, Software as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service without users being much aware of the details in which the services are provided. As in File Access System Service...
Provided By KIIT University
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Currency Exchange Rates Prediction Based on Linear Regression Analysis Using Cloud Computing
In global open economy, the study of currency exchange rates prediction with acceptable accuracy under floating exchange rates environment becomes an important issue. Exchange rates can affect a large number of economic decision-makings and participants' behaviors. Due to the rapid dynamic data changes and increasing large amount of data, accurate...
Provided By Chung Yuan Christian University
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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 IT technologies and separates application and information resources from the underlying infrastructure. Cloud computing security is an important aspect of quality of service...
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 scientific applications. In the Cloud environment with uncountable numeric nodes, resource is inevitably unreliable, which has a great effect on task execution...
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 computing and excellent promising technology of cloud computing concept, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) has been introduced to be a potential technology...
Provided By ISSN
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Cloud Data Management Interface Based Storage Virtualization Mechanism for Cloud Computing
Cloud computing refers to the use of Internet based computer technology for a variety of services like memory, storage, processing and bandwidth. In internet cloud computing plays a major role to maintain the collection IT resources which are used by the cloud providers. In this paper, the authors have proposed...
Provided By ISSN
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Cloud Computing: Just Fancy Name for Virtualization
Cloud computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote server to maintain data and application. Cloud computing allows consumers and business to use application without installation and access their personal files at any computer without internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing...
Provided By ISSN
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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 limits resource efficiency and user flexibility. An HPC cloud can host multiple virtual HPC clusters, giving the scientists unprecedented flexibility for research and development. With...
Provided By Temple Skin Care
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Ranked Keyword Search in Cloud Computing
In this paper, the authors provide a way towards modularized and a light weight approach towards the search engine process using the merits of cloud computing. The cloud based search architecture enables customization of search process as per requirements of the stake holders. This new approach provides effective and personalized...
Provided By IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Enterprise-Grade Mobile Device Management (MDM)
A foundational strategic feature of the Citrix enterprise mobility offering - enterprise-grade MDM. 78% of organizations allow employee-owned mobile devices in the business environment. 3/4 will deploy mobile apps for line-of-business use this year, and over half of those will be mission critical. With this proliferation of devices inside the...
Provided By Citrix
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Citrix OpenCloud Bridge
Enterprise organizations want to take advantage of cloud computing but do not want to give up their own datacenters. This suggests a hybrid cloud strategy that is a mix of both public and private clouds. There are a few challenges that must be addressed to succeed with a hybrid cloud:...
Provided By Citrix
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Cloud Forensics
Cloud computing has the potential to become one of the most transformative computing technologies, following in the footsteps of mainframes, minicomputers, personal computers, the World Wide Web and Smartphone's. Cloud computing may well become one of the most transformative technologies in the history of computing. Cloud service providers and customers...
Provided By WordPower
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Cloud Computing Opportunities for Micro Finance
Cloud Computing Closes the Development Gap Despite tremendous global economic growth over the last few decades, prosperity has evaded huge swaths of the world. Hundreds of millions of people still live in abject poverty with limited prospects for social and economic development. It was in recognition of this imbalance that...
Provided By Redcl0ud
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ACS' ITO Perspective on Cloud Computing: "Is it Ready"?
This paper introduces and describes the benefits of PeopleSoft virtualization using the new Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology and how to effectively implement this new technology into a PeopleSoft environment. This paper discusses the architecture used, and describes various key scenarios including high availability, server consolidation, scaling, and testing. Cloud...
Provided By ACS
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Unified DR Solution for Enterprises Recovery for Cloud and Non-Cloud Environments
Is one business prepared to recover and synchronize one cloud and non-cloud environments? It's not as easy as it sounds. The emergence of Cloud Services, from simple Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to complex Business Processes-as-a-Service (BPaaS), is further complicating the need to look at enterprise disaster recovery in a more holistic way....
Provided By ACS
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ACS' ITO Perspective on Cloud Computing: "Putting People Back in Cloud"
Cloud computing has dominated blogs, conferences and the minds of CIOs around the world in recent days, bringing the promise of agility, scalability, and cost advantages to waiting markets. Although nearly all potential users can see the benefits of the concept, one key issue is slowing or preventing more from...
Provided By ACS
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Performance Test: Comparing Cloud Storage Platforms
With several cloud storage offerings available and new ones popping up all the time, how does one decide which one is right for someone and their business? Cloud products are still ill-defined, so most customers aren't sure which questions to ask when evaluating their options. In the white paper -...
Provided By PLANET
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A Dynamic Resource Management with Energy Saving Mechanism for Supporting Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is becoming an important opportunities for industry to provide a high degree of scalability and serviceability of computing resources. In order to integrate the system resource, utilize the resource flexibly, save the energy consumption and meet the requirements of users in the cloud computing environment, one of the...
Provided By Tatung Co.
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Bluewater Builds Productive, Profitable Partnership With Vce to Provide Cloud-Enabled Solutions to Customers
BlueWater Communications Group is an IT solutions provider and systems integrator, their challenges are Customers looking for ways to improve their IT efficiency and cost-effectiveness and reference architectures require difficult-to-find experts who can put everything together. They chose Vblock Infrastructure Platforms to overcome these challenges. The results of deploying Vblock...
Provided By vcdgear.com
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Optimizing Cloud Resources for Delivering IPTV Services through Virtualization
Virtualized cloud-based services can take advantage of statistical multiplexing across applications to yield significant cost savings to the operator. However, achieving similar benefits with real-time services can be a challenge. In this paper, the authors seek to lower a provider's costs of real-time IPTV services through a virtualized IPTV architecture...
Provided By AT&T Labs
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Enterprise Cloud Solutions: Meeting Business and Financial Demands
Cloud computing, sometimes referred to as the "Third Revolution" in the IT industry, follows the personal computer and Internet "Revolutions" and is already transforming the way they think about computing. But what is it? Gaining agreement on the definition of cloud computing in the tech industry is approaching the level...
Provided By Citrix
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A Class of Practical Self-Tuning Failure Detection Schemes for Distributed Networks
Cloud computing is an increasingly important solution for providing services deployed in dynamically scalable cloud networks. Services in the cloud computing networks may be virtualized with specific servers which host abstracted details. Some of the servers are active and available, while others are busy or heavy loaded, and the remaining...
Provided By Yale Systems, Inc.
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The 10 MUST-HAVES for Secure Enterprise Mobility
A security framework and evaluators checklist. At an estimated cost of more than $250 per lost record, a data breach can be expensive. In fact, some research estimates the cost of a mobile breach at more than $400,000 for an enterprise and more than $100,000 for a small business. No...
Provided By Citrix
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NetFuse: Short-Circuiting Traffic Surges in the Cloud
Modern cloud and data center platforms suffer failures and performance degradation from large traffic surges caused by both external (e.g., DDoS attacks) or internal (e.g., workload changes, operator errors, routing mis-configurations) factors. If not mitigated, traffic overload could have significant financial and availability implications for cloud providers. In this paper,...
Provided By Yale Systems, Inc.
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Choosing the Right Saas Product Development Partner
With a majority of ISVs adopting an offshore model for their product development needs, immediate impediments can be addressed by choosing a right-sized offshoring partner. However, choosing a right-sized partner involves its own set of challenges. But some best practices are available that can help ISVs choose the right offshore...
Provided By Sonata Software
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Enterprise Cloud Computing: Key Considerations for Adoption
Internet has become pervasive in one daily life and cloud computing is the newest Offering as service over the ubiquitous Web. Enterprise cloud computing is a controlled, internal place that offers the rapid and flexible provisioning of compute power, storage, software, and security services. Cloud enables enterprises to unleash their...
Provided By Waves
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Improving the Performance of Aggregate Queries with Cached Tuples in MapReduce
As an essential approach for extracting valuable summarized information from massive data set, aggregate query plays important roles for data-intensive applications in cloud computing. As a popular cloud computing platform, MapReduce is a promising paradigm for processing massive data. However, executing aggregate query over massive data sets is very time-consuming...
Provided By University of Sfax
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PKI and UDDI Based Trust Centre: An Attempt to Improve Web Service Security
Nowadays Internet becomes the most used tool for the ever increasing amount of various transactions between institutions, organizations and more generally between clients and providers. Conducted studies and experiments showed that it is more convenient to provide and achieve these transactions as Web Services (WS) to guarantee their flexibility and...
Provided By University of Sfax
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VAA Product Overview and Use Cases
Server-side application virtualization decouples the application from the OS freeing the application to move and run isolated from the OS and other applications. Application mobility enables flexibility for provisioning the application stack across boundaries. Today there are boundaries in the data center that have the effect of locking in the...
Provided By AppZero
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Jumping on the Cloud-Wagon?: Pack Your Server Applications for the Trip
Google "Cloud computing" for a leisurely stroll through more than 10 million returns - most of which are dedicated to technology issues such as: the relative merits of Amazon EC2,Go Grid et al; Platform as a Service (PaaS) ala Salesforce; or consideration of the impact Microsoft, IBM, and casts of...
Provided By AppZero
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Identifying Benefits and Risks Associated With Utilizing Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is an emerging computing model where IT and computing operations are delivered as services in highly scalable and cost effective manner. Recently, embarking this new model in business has become popular. Companies in diverse sectors intend to leverage cloud computing architecture, platforms and applications in order to gain...
Provided By Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
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Context-Aware Cloud Computing for Construction Collaboration
The construction industry has been characterised by fragmentation, lack of integration and complexities in processes and activities. These characteristics could threaten the delivery of project objectives which could ultimately have a negative impact on construction project success. The construction industry is associated with numerous activities, processes, organizations and individuals. Improving...
Provided By Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
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A Brief Review of Mobile Cloud Computing Opportunities
Cloud Computing (CC) is becoming popular as the latest technology in the infrastructure of the computing world. The CC allows the users to make use of the resources when needed. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) combines the cloud computing concept into a mobile setting and manages to deter barriers associated with...
Provided By Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
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Cloud Computing Technology for Collaborative Information System in Construction Industry
The fragmentation, poor integration and adversarial relationships among players in the construction industry has been one of the main barriers of the successful construction project delivery contributing to negative influence on project objectives. There are many processes, organizations and people involved within the construction industry. Enhanced collaboration with construction parties...
Provided By Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
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A Survey on Methods to Defend Against DDoS Attack in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a revolution in IT technology by providing a shared pool of virtualizes resources for its users to pay as they use. This technology is based on two crucial concepts as virtualization and abstraction, which increased the ability of on demand access through the available resources in the...
Provided By Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
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An Overview on Methods to Detect Port Scanning Attacks in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has become a controversial subject in the future of computer networks. Furthermore, it has emerged as a major information and communications technology leaning. The most important problem in cloud computing environment that enterprises are focused on is security concerns. One of the challenges in cloud environment is to...
Provided By Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
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Aster nCluster In-Database MapReduce: Deriving Deep Insights from Large Datasets
A lack of expressive techniques to transform and analyze massive data volumes in organizations has led to costly workarounds in data warehousing. One of the first to face the challenge of analyzing petabyte scale data, Google pioneered a software framework called MapReduce for high speed processing of large amounts of...
Provided By Aster Data
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Cloud computing - resilience is the key to success
This insightful whitepaper briefly explains what cloud computing is and does, examines the facts that underlie the hyperbole, and considers both the benefits and challenges that the cloud can bring to organisations of all types and sizes.
Provided By SunGard Availability Services
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Cloud Security, buyer be aware!
This paper investigates some of the concerns around physical and logical security in the cloud and recommends key questions that enterprises should ask to help determine whether their cloud provider can offer the assurances they need to pursue their Information Availability strategy.
Provided By SunGard Availability Services
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Datasheet: Infrastructure as a Service
'Infrastructure as a Service' gives enterprises the flexibility to subscribe to the compute power and storage they require today with 'pay as you grow' scalability. Learn how SunGard's fully-managed private cloud infrastructure achieves this while meeting the physical and virtual security standards demanded by today's businesses.
Provided By SunGard Availability Services
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SunGard Aquires Hosting 365
A synopsis of SunGard's acquisition of 365 Hosting Limited, a Dublin, Ireland-based cloud computing and data centre services company which trades as 'Hosting 365'. Privately-owned Hosting 365 has built a strong presence in Ireland delivering both data centre managed IT services and, more recently, on-demand computing services within its cloud...
Provided By SunGard Availability Services
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What's the value in switching to the cloud?
If your business is not already seeking to reduce IT costs or looking to increase the agility of its IT environment with a cloud solution, why not? There are a range of benefits cloud services can provide that don't end with cost savings. Consider the efficiencies the cloud creates...
Provided By SunGard Availability Services
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Case study: How cloud enables growth
Infinity provides software and IT services to institutions across the financial services industry. Its systems support the accounting and management of more than $25 trillion in invested assets, and process more than five million trades each day. It required an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider that could ensure continuous...
Provided By SunGard Availability Services
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How Worthy is Cloud Computing for Libraries
Terminological turmoil and changing dynamics of computing technology had been so rapid at its journey could be traced back from 1960 when John McCarthy predicted that someday computing would be organized as a public utility. In the early 90s, Ian Foster coined the term 'Grid computing', which talked about technologies...
Provided By INFLIBNET Centre
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Cloud Computing: Best Pratics for Migrating to Microsoft Business Produtivity Online Suit
The very name "Cloud" implies something vague about computing. It has been called many things: "Software as a service", "Software plus services" or "Hosted applications". Most common definitions of "Cloud computing" involve an organization paying a monthly fee for a service - usually a service that the organization would have...
Provided By PointBridge
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Cutting Through the Hype of Cloud Computing
Modern hype would suggest that if one don't have a 'Cloud Strategy' already in place and one is not already planning on migrating the bulk of the applications to 'The Cloud' then the companies are certain to be left behind by the competition. Cutting through the hype, it is debatable...
Provided By Hudson & Yorke
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White Paper Cloud Computing: Thin Clients in the Clouds
Cloud services represent an attractive and cost-efficient continuation of server-based computing and application service provider models. In combination with universal thin client solutions, the cost benefits apply not only to the data center but also to desktops. The term cloud computing has not yet been clearly defined but the media...
Provided By IGEL Technology
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Analysis of Fault Tolerance Approaches in Dynamic Cloud Computing
Cloud computing provide many service to the user. Now a day the user level is highly increased to utilize the services in cloud computing. In cloud computing the major problem area is fault tolerance. Many clients can request the server at a time make the server overloading cause fault. In...
Provided By Bharathiar University
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Improved Max-Min Algorithm in Cloud Computing
In this paper, a unique modification of Max-min algorithm is proposed. The algorithm is built based on comprehensive study of the impact of RASA algorithm in scheduling tasks and the atom concept of Max-min strategy. An Improved version of Max-min algorithm is proposed to outperform scheduling map at least similar...
Provided By Mansoura University