cloud computing

Blog Posts

Think the cloud will cut your IT costs? Not so fast, say CIOs

February 2, 2012 4:34am PST

Contrary to the sales pitch, cloud computing does not guarantee an easy and painless way for the IT department to cut costs.

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Blog Posts

Cloud spot markets: What they are and why you should care

February 8, 2012 6:00am PST

Thoran Rodrigues explains how cloud spot markets work to potentially provide cost optimizations for those purchasing computing power.

Blog Posts

A letter of regret to Google Cloud (My)SQL?

January 16, 2012 6:00am PST

Ian Hardenburgh shares his thoughts on Google's decision to choose MySQL as its new cloud computing relational database of choice.

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Discussion Threads

A developer's reflections on 2011: Windows 8, HTML5, the cloud, more

January 1, 2012 3:18pm PST

A developer's reflections on 2011: Windows 8, HTML5, the cloud, more article root There's stuff that can never change Win 98 still needs to work eternities into the future.It's the roots and core...

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How Windows Azure will change vendor and reseller relationships

January 26, 2012 7:17am PST

How Windows Azure will change vendor and reseller relationships article root TEST TEST pass ~ nt . Cloud Computing Data migration Other than the availability of new tools, data migration to a...

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Cloud computing: Can you dodge these three hidden pitfalls?

February 9, 2012 7:25am PST

Cloud computing: Can you dodge these three hidden pitfalls? article root Biggest Challenge: Lack of Integration Support What we're not seeing enough of in cloud solutions is integration with...

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Case Studies

Innovest Systems Orchestrating Savvis Symphony Solutions to Securely Deliver Innovative Trust and Wealth Management SaaS Solutions

June 23, 2010 12:00am PDT

Innovest was founded in 2000 to provide innovative technology-driven middle- and back-office solutions to trust companies. The challenge of Innovest is to stay on the leading edge of delivering...

Provided by: SAVVIS

Case Studies

Shifting to XML Authoring is Helping the Citrix Education Team Write a New Chapter in Efficiency

April 8, 2010 12:00am PDT

Citrix is at the forefront of desktop, application and server virtualization, application networking and cloud computing. Citrix wants to create a more efficient method for authoring product...

Provided by: Justsystems

Case Studies

Service Provider Builds Private Cloud Services Using Vblock-Infrastructure Platforms

March 24, 2011 12:00am PDT

EDV-Centrum für Kirche und Diakonie (ECKD) is one of the IT Service Provider. ECKD's challenges were building secure, multitenant cloud for churches and public sector organizations, and to...

Provided by: VCE Company

Case Studies

College Builds Secure Multitenant Cloud

March 8, 2011 12:00am PST

Claremont McKenna College challenges were to Increase IT efficiency, Support computing needs in joint science lab, to prepare for disaster recovery. They chose VCE company to overcome these...

Provided by: VCE Company

Case Studies

Service Provider Builds Enterprise Cloud

March 8, 2011 12:00am PST

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., A Xerox Company is one of the Service Provider. Their facing the challenges were to building enterprise-class private cloud, to maximizing business agility and...

Provided by: VCE Company

Case Studies

Service Provider Builds Private Cloud Services Using Vblock - Infrastructure Platforms

April 4, 2011 12:00am PDT

EDV-Centrum für Kirche und Diakonie (ECKD) is one of the IT Service Provider in Germany. Their facing challenges were to building secure, the multitenant cloud for churches and public sector...

Provided by: VCE Company

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Consulting Group Moves Services to Secure Private Cloud

September 22, 2011 12:00am PDT

Hay Group is a global management consulting firm specializing in developing talent, organizing people to be more effective, and motivating them to perform at their best. Their facing challenges...

Provided by: Cisco

White Papers

Enhancing Computing Power by Exploiting Underutilized Resources in the Community Cloud

April 26, 2011 12:00am PDT

With the advent of cloud computing, organizations tend to buy services from data centers of major cloud vendors. In contrast, community cloud computing as described gives an alternative way to...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

White Papers

Specification and Quantitative Analysis of Probabilistic Cloud Deployment Patterns

August 23, 2011 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing is a new technological paradigm offering computing infrastructure, software and platforms as a pay-as-you-go subscription based service. Many potential customer's of cloud services...

Provided by: Aston University

White Papers

Toward Green Cloud Computing

February 23, 2011 12:00am PST

Cloud computing is emerging as a critical information communication technology to heavily impact the people's daily life in the future. The authors systematically analyze its energy consumption...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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A Novel Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Computing

December 25, 2011 12:00am PST

In this paper a novel virtual machine placement mechanism for cloud computing is proposed based on network-aware Virtual Machines (VMs). VMs are widely applied to modern data center for cloud...

Provided by: Islamic Azad University

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Towards Energy-Aware Autonomic Provisioning for Virtualized Environments

June 25, 2009 12:00am PDT

As energy efficiency and associated costs become key concerns, consolidated and virtualized data centers and clouds are attractive computing platforms for data- and compute-intensive applications....

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Self-Managed Services Conceptual Model in Trustworthy Clouds' Infrastructure

January 23, 2011 12:00am PST

Current clouds infrastructure do not provide the full potential of automated self-managed services. Cloud infrastructure management are supported by clouds' internal employees and contractors...

Provided by: Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)

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Profiling-as-a-Service: Adaptive Scalable Resource Profiling for the Cloud in the Cloud

June 10, 2011 12:00am PDT

Run-time profiling of Web-based applications and services is an effective method to aid in the provisioning of required resources, for monitoring server-level objectives, and for detecting...

Provided by: University of British Columbia