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The Cost vs. Reward of Backing Up Google Apps
Aug 2012
As the market for the cloud grows rapidly, more questions arise regarding backup protection. How can you ensure your sensitive SaaS data is protected? The idea of "cloud to cloud" backup is...
Provided by Backupify
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Whitepapers
Running a Business in the Cloud - A CFO's/CIO's Journey
Feb 2013
Get a unique perspective on moving a business to the cloud in this new paper by Tom Kelly, a cloud computing veteran who was pioneering SaaS deployments back in 1998. Now Managing Director at...
Provided by Netsuite AU
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Downloads
Executive's Guide to Best Practices in SaaS and the Cloud
Mar 2013
This guide offers analysis, perspective, and advice to help you make the right decisions when implementing cloud solutions for your organization.
Provided by TechRepublic
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Whitepapers
Converting Big Data Hype into Big Value with Analytics
May 2013
Read this whitepaper to learn how Big analytics can improve your business decision making and enhance business innovation. Most of all what does it provide in terms of business value for big...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Understanding the Cloud Computing Stack: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
Aug 2011
Cloud Computing is a broad term that describes a broad range of services. As with other significant developments in technology, many vendors have seized the term "Cloud" and are using it for...
Provided by Rackspace Hosting
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Cloudonomics: The Economics of Cloud Computing
Aug 2011
There are many reasons for organizations to move from traditional IT infrastructure to Cloud Computing. One of the most cited benefits is the economics of the Cloud. Yet while many people point...
Provided by Rackspace Hosting
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eBook: Five Things You Need to Know Today about Disaster Recovery Planning
Sep 2012
When was the last time you looked at your disaster recovery plan? What do you expect would happen if the ceiling collapsed in your data center? This free eBook outlines five important topics that...
Provided by Attachmate
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Whitepapers
Hadoop Operations - Sampler (chapters 1 & 10)
Aug 2012
With this digital Early Release edition of Hadoop Operations, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form - the author's raw and unedited content - so you can take advantage of this...
Provided by Cloudera
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Whitepapers
Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds
Feb 2011
Consolidating databases onto a private cloud is a new model for the delivery of database services. Private clouds consolidate servers, storage, operating systems, databases, and mixed workloads...
Provided by Oracle
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Web Help Desk
Dec 2012
Satisfying customers isn't as simple as keeping phone lines open 24/7. Customer support is an intricate process that needs to be fully backed by intelligent IT solutions and strategy. By...
Provided by SolarWinds
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Whitepapers
Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure for Dummies
Jan 2012
Cloud computing, and specifically Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), offers many benefits to an enterprise. Cloud computing has matured into a production grade model for the enterprise. When...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Learning How To Learn Hadoop
Jan 2013
Learning how to program and develop for the Hadoop platform can lead to lucrative new career opportunities in Big Data. But like the problems it solves, the Hadoop framework can be quite complex...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
The Future of Cloud Computing Planning Guide
Sep 2011
If the question hasn't come up yet in your organization, it probably will. How do you build a private cloud for your organization? Cloud computing is one of the top three priorities this year for...
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Architectural Strategies for Cloud Computing
Aug 2009
Opportunities for improving IT efficiency and performance through centralization of resources have increased dramatically in the last few years with the maturation of technologies such as SOA,...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Building a Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
Jan 2013
Developing a roadmap for your cloud strategy doesn't have to be daunting. It just takes a little planning, homework and collaboration. Read this IBM-sponsored white paper from Frost & Sullivan to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
How does IBM deliver cloud security?
Feb 2013
Cloud computing is changing the way we use computing and has the potential for significant economic and efficiency benefits. But the speed of adoption depends on how quickly trust in new cloud...
Provided by IBM
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Research
Amazon Web Services: A guide to Amazon's cloud
Jun 2012
Amazon launched its cloud in 2006 and since then it has come to dominate the industry. Amazon's APIs are a de facto standard, as almost any popular start-up you care to name has used its services....
Provided by ZDNet
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Hadoop and the Data Warehouse | When to Use Which
Aug 2012
In recent years, Apache Hadoop has emerged from humble beginnings to worldwide adoption - infusing data centers with new infrastructure concepts and generating new business opportunities by...
Provided by Cloudera
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Whitepapers
Building A Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
Mar 2012
Whether your organisation is just getting started in the cloud or is looking to expand the usage beyond one or two workloads, it pays to have a solid roadmap in place. The roadmap will ensure to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
10 Reasons to Modernize the Desktop: CIO
Aug 2011
IT departments require a solution that meets the evolving needs of the business, employees, and IT - something not possible with a traditional PC model. Desktop modernization is about evolving...
Provided by VMware
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Building a Cloud Computing Specification: Fundamental Engineering for Optimizing Cloud Computing Initiatives
Aug 2010
The need for a specification for Cloud Computing has emerged. The commoditization of the term "Cloud Computing" for various marketing purposes has diluted, and in some cases compromised the...
Provided by Computer Sciences
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e-Books
The Dark Side of Cloud Computing
Sep 2011
Botnets are based on similar principles as legitimate clouds, but serve malicious business interests. Find out more about how botnets work and the right steps after having detected infected...
Provided by Astaro
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Research
London Games: Planning a business and IT strategy
Jul 2012
As the Games come to London, organisers have also been urging businesses to be ready with contingency plans, from home working to IT infrastructure. This business and IT guide to the London Games...
Provided by ZDNet
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Analysing the Risks Involved in Cloud Computing Environments
Oct 2010
In recent years, cloud computing has been an emerging computing model in the IT industry. Machines involved in cloud computing deliver services in a scalable manner. It provides efficient...
Provided by Malardalen University
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Whitepapers
Strategies for Assessing Cloud Security
Jun 2011
When moving to a cloud computing environment, it is critical to evaluate the risks you face and have the right security controls in place. Read this white paper to learn about the security issues...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
CloudU Series: Say Goodbye to DIY Datacenters
Sep 2011
As IT increases in complexity each year, many small and medium businesses have little or no understanding of what a move to Cloud Computing really means in terms of underlying technology. In...
Provided by Rackspace Hosting
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Whitepapers - Video
Red Hat Webinar - Implementing an Open Cloud Architecture
May 2012
In this webinar, Red Hat Cloud Evangelist Gordon Haff will take you through the defining characteristics of an open cloud and explore how implementing a fully open cloud: Makes it possible to...
Provided by Red Hat AU
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Whitepapers
Database Security in Virtualization and Cloud Computing Environments
Apr 2013
Many organizations have found themselves drawn to virtualization and cloud computing architectures for the many benefits, only to find that the complexity of ensuring adequate data security was...
Provided by McAfee
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Whitepapers
Hadoop: Revealing its True Value for Business Intelligence
Aug 2012
Hadoop and related technologies have been with us for over five years now, but BI/DW professionals have only recently started exploring them, motivated by the rise of big data analytics. The...
Provided by Cloudera
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Whitepapers
Key technical support considerations for smart IT infrastructures
Feb 2013
Today, new business challenges require a smarter IT infrastructure that includes technologies like cloud computing and virtualization along with services like proactive monitoring and intelligent...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
ZDNet Big Data priorities 2013
Feb 2013
Big data stories have been all over business and tech media for the past 12 months, but how many businesses are exploiting big data capabilities to support their everyday operations? Not very...
Provided by ZDNet
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White Papers
Architectural Requirements for Cloud Computing Systems: An Enterprise Cloud Approach
Dec 2010
Cloud Computing is a model of service delivery and access where dynamically scalable and virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. This model creates a new horizon of...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Cloud Computing & Databases: How Databases Can Meet the Demands of Cloud Computing
Nov 2008
The potential benefits of cloud computing are overwhelming. However, attaining these benefits requires that each aspect of the cloud platform support the key design principles of the cloud model....
Provided by ScaleDB
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Whitepapers
Mobile Device Management
Jan 2013
Today, mobile security is a more than just a reality. It’s at the forefront of security concerns for organizations that encourage and support mobile workforces and who do business on the go -...
Provided by GFI Software
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CIO Playbook: How Mobility Can Transform Your Business
Apr 2013
Mobility is more than just smartphones and tablets. IT professionals need to get their arms around on four key elements of the mobile ecosystem as the rise of mobile devices in the enterprise...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
How Mobility Is Changing the Enterprise - A report by Harvard Business Review
Apr 2013
Forward-thinking enterprises use mobile technology across their organizations to give employees, suppliers, and customers access to appropriate data when and where they need it. This new...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
VMware vSphere 5 on NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1 Operating in Cluster-Mode
Jan 2013
Technical Report - This document aligns the server hypervisor with the storage hypervisor by prescribing the best practices for deploying VMware® vSphere® 5 on Cluster-Mode
Provided by NetApp
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Avoid making major mistakes in data center virtualization (Spanish)
Apr 2013
With increasing demand for data centers, network infrastructure may become more complex and more costly. Cisco In this article, you'll discover how to avoid the five major errors during...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
The New Normal
Dec 2012
Use of more mobile devices and more mobile applications at work creates an ever-changing set of challenges for wireless network administrators and engineers. A wide variety of laptops, smartphones...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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Whitepapers
Analyst White Paper from Nucleus
Aug 2012
Read this white paper to learn how Nucleus determined that organizations can earn an incremental ROI of up to 241% by using Big Data capabilities to examine large and complex data sets. Nucleus...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Trust in Cloud Computing
Apr 2013
Cloud computing is the most recent technology in the Information technology industry which a lot of companies and government are putting much concern to make sure that they have benefited from...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Mobile Cloud Computing
Apr 2013
Despite increasing usage of mobile computing, using its full potential is difficult due to its problems such as resource scarcity, frequent disconnections, and mobility. Mobile cloud computing can...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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A Survey on Cost Effective Multi-Cloud Storage in Cloud Computing
Apr 2013
As novel storage model, cloud storage has gain attentions from both the academics and industrial communities. However along with variant advantages, it also brings new challenges in maintaining...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Implementing XML-Based Role and Schema Migration Scheme for Clouds
Mar 2013
Cloud computing moves computing and storage tasks from individual systems to the Cloud thereby reducing the burden at user's end. It enables the delivery of hardware and software resources over...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering and Technology
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Whitepapers
Texture Analysis for Recognition of Satellite Cloud Images using Orthogonal Polynomial Model
Mar 2013
The main aim of this paper is to classify the satellite cloud images with high accuracy and good recognition rate using texture as a feature. This paper is based on Orthogonal Polynomial...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering and Technology
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A Secure Data Forwarding Schema for Cloud Storage Systems
May 2013
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...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Levels of Security Issues in Cloud Computing
May 2013
Now-a-days, cloud computing is booming in most of the IT industry. Most of the organizations are moving to cloud computing due to various reasons. It provide elastic architecture accessible...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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Whitepapers
Practical System for Querying Encrypted Data on the Cloud
May 2013
This paper proposes, compares and analyses query optimization techniques to securely query encrypted databases. Such querying capability is becoming increasingly relevant as individuals and...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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A Novel Approach for Resource Discovery Using Random Projection on Cloud Computing Environments
May 2013
Cloud computing offers different type's utilities to the IT industries. Generally the resources are scattered throughout the clouds. It has to enable the ability to find different resources are...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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Comparison of Probabilistic Optimization Algorithms for Resource Scheduling in Cloud Computing Environment
May 2013
Cloud Computing has significantly made its landmark in the field of information technology. A concept which initially stood nebulous is now used as a synonym for internet. It has paved a way to...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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Efficient Resource Utilization Algorithm (ERUA) for Service Request Scheduling in Cloud
May 2013
Cloud computing provides the user with the massive pool of resources in terms of pay-as-you-use policy. Cloud delivers these resources on demand through the use of network resources under...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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Whitepapers
Hybrid Cloud Storage: Getting the Best of Two Worlds
Jul 2012
The Aberdeen Group surveyed 106 enterprises spanning various sectors to see how they are dealing with very high growth storage. In this report we look at each component of Hybrid Cloud Storage....
Provided by Red Hat
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A Survey on the Architectures of Data Security in Cloud Storage Infrastructure
May 2013
Cloud computing is a most alluring technology that facilitates conducive, on-demand network access based on the requirement of users with nominal effort on management and interaction among cloud...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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Secure Key Exchange for Cloud Environment Using Cellular Automata With Triple-DES and Error-Detection
May 2013
The information housed on the cloud is often seen as valuable to individuals with malicious intent. There is a lot of personal information and potentially secure data that people store on their...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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A Survey on Keyword Based Search Over Outsourced Encrypted Data
May 2013
Cloud Computing, the trendiest computing in information technology where everything is based on demand service and pay-for-use service. It is bringing of computing services such as SaaS, PaaS and...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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A Survey on Cloud Storage Systems and Encryption Schemes
May 2013
Cloud computing is the collection of networked computers sharing the resources on-demand. The increasing use of cloud computing over the globe has brought into focus a need to design a secure...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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Whitepapers
Efficient Parallel Data Management Providing Load Balancing Service in Cloud Environment
May 2013
Cloud is one of the rapidly developing technologies as it allows convergence of many new areas like scalability, rapid elasticity and broad network access in cloud services. This paper focuses on...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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Database Audit Over Cloud Environment Using Forensic Analysis Algorithm
May 2013
Cloud Computing is a technology that uses the internet and virtual remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and organizations to use applications without...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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Whitepapers
Stratos: A Network-Aware Orchestration Layer for Middleboxes in the Cloud
May 2013
The authors see an increasing demand for in-the-cloud middlebox processing as applications and enterprises want their cloud deployments to leverage the same benefits that such services offer in...
Provided by Princeton Software
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Whitepapers
A Review on Cloud Computing Model
Mar 2013
Cloud computing is model of computing that use the internet for sharing of information, software and resources to computer and other devices upon demand. This enables the end user to access the...
Provided by Auricle Technologies
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Reducing Upload and Download Time on Cloud Using Content Distribution Algorithm
Mar 2013
Cloud computing is a term, which involves virtualization, distributed computing, networking, software and web services. Cloud services provide resources efficiently based on demand. Central of...
Provided by Auricle Technologies
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Whitepapers
Go SaaS, Go Green Green Computing Using Software as a Service
Jan 2013
Green computing means the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using and disposing of computers, servers and associated subsystems efficiently and effectively with no impact on the...
Provided by Auricle Technologies
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Whitepapers
Data Accountability in Cloud Using Reliable Log Files Forwarding
Apr 2013
Cloud computing is receiving a great deal of attention, both in publications and among users, from individuals at home to the government. The cloud makes it possible for the user to access their...
Provided by Auricle Technologies
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing a CRM Service Based on Separate Encryption and Decryption Using Blowfish Algorithm
Apr 2013
Enterprises always store the data in the internal storage of the organization itself. Especially in a Customer Relationship management system all the data of the customers will be stored in the...
Provided by Auricle Technologies
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Whitepapers
Mobile Cloud Computing: A New Approach, Case Study, Result & Analysis
Aug 2012
In this paper, the authors aim cloud computing as a new computing technology which provide efficient reliable, customized and isolated hardware network. Although, cloud computing industry promises...
Provided by International Journal of Scientific Research Engineering &Technology (IJSRET)
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Whitepapers
Secure Authentication With Encryption Technique for Mobile on Cloud Computing
Aug 2012
Cloud computing, to put it simply, means "Internet Computing" The Internet is commonly visualized as clouds; hence the term "Cloud computing" for computation done through the Internet. With Cloud...
Provided by International Journal of Scientific Research Engineering &Technology (IJSRET)
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Whitepapers
Towards Differential Query Services in Cost-Efficient Clouds
May 2013
Cloud computing as an emerging technology trend is expected to reshape the advances in information technology. In a cost-efficient cloud environment, a user can tolerate a certain degree of delay...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Outsourcing Privacy-Preserving Social Networks to a Cloud
Jan 2013
In the real world, companies would publish social networks to a third party, e.g., a cloud service provider, for marketing reasons. Preserving privacy when publishing social network data becomes...
Provided by Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Whitepapers
User-Based CPU Verification Scheme for Public Cloud Computing
Apr 2013
In this paper, a user-based CPU verification scheme is proposed for cloud cheating detection. In this scheme, a predefined computational task is constructed for the cloud to execute in the...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Whitepapers
IDC Whitepaper: Leveraging the Network for Your Virtualization and Cloud Initiatives
May 2013
Virtualization is one of the most important trends reshaping the enterprise datacenter today. Driven by the desire to reduce server sprawl and consolidate enterprise applications on fewer physical...
Provided by IBM Australia
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Whitepapers
Secure Computation of Top-K Eigenvectors for SharedMatrices in the Cloud
Feb 2013
With the development of sensor network, mobile computing, and web applications, data are now collected from many distributed sources to form big datasets. Such datasets can be hosted in the cloud...
Provided by Wright State Athletics
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Whitepapers
I Have the Proof: Providing Proofs of Past Data Possession in Cloud Forensics
Nov 2012
Cloud computing has emerged as a popular computing paradigm in recent years. However, today's cloud computing architectures often lack support for computer forensic investigations. A key task of...
Provided by University of Al-Jabal Al-Gharbi
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Whitepapers
Mathematical Frameworks for Pricing in the Cloud: Revenue, Fairness, and Resource Allocations
Dec 2012
As more and more users begin to use the cloud for their computing needs, datacenter operators are increasingly pressed to effectively allocate their resources among these client users. Yet while...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
An Ontology-Based System for Cloud Infrastructure Services' Discovery
Dec 2012
The Cloud infrastructure services landscape advances steadily leaving users in the agony of choice. As a result, Cloud service identification and discovery remains a hard problem due to different...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
A Dynamic Customizable Architecture for SaaS Based Platform
Dec 2012
The characteristics of multi associations business coordination among the enterprises in industry chain is firstly analyzed, and the demand of customizable business of SaaS (Software as a Service)...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
A Development Model for Domain-Oriented Information Service Based on Cloud Computing Infrastructure
Dec 2012
For the diversity of users demand for information services in converged network environment, a solution was proposed with the combination of cloud computing technology and domain engineering, in...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
An Improved Information Hiding Algorithm
Dec 2012
Hiding technology is a newly developed discipline that concludes many subjects and covers many fields, and it hides the transferring information in the carrier, which greatly increases the safety...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
Isolated Distributed Architecture for Cloud-Storage Services Based on Structured Strategy
Dec 2012
Cloud Security threats have greatly hindered the development of Cloud Computing and the promotion of cloud application, so how to protect the data stored in the cloud is not only the core issue of...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
An Evaluation Optimization Approach of IaaS Resource Distribution Based on Genetic Algorithm
Dec 2012
In cloud computing, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is the foundation of cloud service applications. It enables problems like resource allocation scheduling and bearing capacity to be further...
Provided by JATIT
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Whitepapers
Publish/subscribe Network Infrastructure Based on Web Service Notification
Nov 2012
To accommodate real-time dynamic large scale service composition requirements, Event-Driven Service Oriented Architecture (EDSOA) is introduced to solve the shortcomings of Service Oriented...
Provided by JATIT
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White Papers
Performance Test: Comparing Cloud Storage Platforms
May 2009
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...
Provided by PLANET
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Whitepapers
Building A Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
Mar 2012
Whether your organisation is just getting started in the cloud or is looking to expand the usage beyond one or two workloads, it pays to have a solid roadmap in place. The roadmap will ensure to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Delivering IT to the virtual workforce
Sep 2012
Workshifting works for workers. It enables them more freedom than a 9 - 5 office routine. Workshifting also works for employers. They can readily shift workers -- virtually or physically -- from...
Provided by Citrix Systems
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Whitepapers
Getting started with the cloud: A step-by-step enterprise implementation guide
Sep 2012
More enterprises are moving applications to the cloud every day, seeking faster implementation, more flexibility and lower cost. But not everyone has a master plan; these decisions are sometimes...
Provided by Rackspace
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Webcasts
Role of Automation in Cloud Computing
Oct 2010
Data Center Automation has become exciting again, especially in the cloud: find out why in this webinar. In recent years innovations like virtualization and cloud computing have created new...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Elastic, Scalable, On-Demand IT Services for Everyone
Apr 2010
Cloud computing promises enormous opportunities for organizations to cut costs and speed time to market while eliminating the heavy investment in IT capital and operating expenses traditionally...
Provided by Cloud.com
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White Papers
Cloud Computing - A Hope for the Rural India
Aug 2010
Rural population being the majority of Indian population has the potential of making India an economic superpower and a developed country but in the present scenario this majority is completely...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
A* Algorithm Based Optimization for Cloud Storage
Nov 2010
Cloud Storage provides users with storage space and make user friendly and timely acquire data, which is foundation of all kinds of cloud applications. However, there is lack of deep studies on...
Provided by Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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Whitepapers
Platform-as-a-Service Private Cloud with Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oct 2009
Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in IT today, but many IT professionals are struggling to determine how best to achieve cloud's promises of agile deployment and elastic capacity...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Making the Cloud Achievable
May 2011
A reference guide on cloud computing. Provides an overview of cloud computing and it's benefits and an in-depth look at preparing for the cloud. Also covers the private cloud and the public cloud...
Provided by CDW & VMware
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Whitepapers
Analytics: The real-world use of big data (Study)
Dec 2012
Today companies are striving to provide a more customer-centric experience. Being able to understand and predict customer behavior can help forge a lasting, profitable relationship between...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers - Video
Red Hat Webinar - Implementing an Open Cloud Architecture
May 2012
In this webinar, Red Hat Cloud Evangelist Gordon Haff will take you through the defining characteristics of an open cloud and explore how implementing a fully open cloud: Makes it possible to...
Provided by Red Hat AU
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Whitepapers
Managing identities and access in the cloud
Feb 2013
The ability to share services and information with various departments,partners, customers and other parts of the business ecosystem is a major advantage of cloud computing. As a result,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
VCONF: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Virtual Machines Auto-Configuration
Jun 2009
Virtual Machine (VM) technology enables multiple VMs to share resources on the same host. Resources allocated to the VMs should be re-configured dynamically in response to the change of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Provisioning Spot Market Cloud Resources to Create Cost-Effective Virtual Clusters
Aug 2011
Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers are offering their unused resources in the form of variable-priced Virtual Machines (VMs), known as "Spot instances", at prices significantly lower than their...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
A Scheduling Algorithm for Private Clouds
Jul 2011
In contrast with public clouds, private clouds have some unique features, especially when related to workflow scheduling. Of course, the trade-off problem between power and performance remains to...
Provided by Shanghai University
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White Papers
Understanding the Cloud Computing Stack: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
Aug 2011
Cloud Computing is a broad term that describes a broad range of services. As with other significant developments in technology, many vendors have seized the term "Cloud" and are using it for...
Provided by Rackspace Hosting
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White Papers
Review of Trust-Based File Sharing in Cloud Computing
Aug 2011
The recent advances in cloud computing have risen a number of unforeseen security related issues in different aspects of cloud environments. Among these, the problem of guaranteeing secure access...
Provided by University of Brasilia
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White Papers
Parallel and Distributed Simulation From Many Cores to the Public Cloud
Jun 2011
In this paper, the authors will firstly review some basic simulation concepts and then introduce the parallel and distributed simulation techniques in view of some new challenges of today and...
Provided by University of Bologna
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Whitepapers
The Cost vs. Reward of Backing Up Google Apps
Aug 2012
As the market for the cloud grows rapidly, more questions arise regarding backup protection. How can you ensure your sensitive SaaS data is protected? The idea of "cloud to cloud" backup is...
Provided by Backupify
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Whitepapers
Leveraging Microsoft's System Center 2012 Suite in the Private Cloud
Apr 2012
Ultimately, all large organizations will require the added flexibility and efficiency of the cloud. Initially, the private cloud will be the most obvious choice for enterprises that will not or...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure for Dummies
Jan 2012
Cloud computing, and specifically Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), offers many benefits to an enterprise. Cloud computing has matured into a production grade model for the enterprise. When...
Provided by Oracle
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Downloads
Executive's Guide to Best Practices in SaaS and the Cloud
Mar 2013
This guide offers analysis, perspective, and advice to help you make the right decisions when implementing cloud solutions for your organization.
Provided by TechRepublic
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Whitepapers
10 Critical Requirements for Cloud Applications
Mar 2012
Growing interest in cloud computing has prompted almost every enterprise software vendor to claim it's "in the cloud." However, in the industry's rush to fulfill demand, some vendors may skip...
Provided by Workday
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Whitepapers
Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds
Feb 2011
Consolidating databases onto a private cloud is a new model for the delivery of database services. Private clouds consolidate servers, storage, operating systems, databases, and mixed workloads...
Provided by Oracle
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Downloads
Web Help Desk
Dec 2012
Satisfying customers isn't as simple as keeping phone lines open 24/7. Customer support is an intricate process that needs to be fully backed by intelligent IT solutions and strategy. By...
Provided by SolarWinds
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Whitepapers
ZDNet Big Data priorities 2013
Feb 2013
Big data stories have been all over business and tech media for the past 12 months, but how many businesses are exploiting big data capabilities to support their everyday operations? Not very...
Provided by ZDNet
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Whitepapers
IDC Market Spotlight: - Cloud-Based Services in the Banking Industry
Apr 2013
IDC Financial Insights believes that big data, cloud, mobile, and social technologies will be at the forefront of discussions between IT and business professionals at financial institutions in...
Provided by OpenText
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Whitepapers
Cloud for Dummies, IBM Midsize Company Limited Edition
Apr 2013
This book gives mid-sized companies insights on what it means to create flexible pools of computing resources that break down silos in your company so you can perform in a smarter and more...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Webinar: Securing the Cloud Dec 10th, 2pm ET / 11am PT
Nov 2009
Cloud computing promises to provide vast computing power, reliable off-site data storage, wide availability, all at lower maintenance and investment costs. But recent cloud computing mishaps have...
Provided by Enterprise Florida
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White Papers
Can Cloud Computing Ever Replace Traditional Desktop Computing?
May 2009
Cloud computing is a new and exciting technology that is more evolutionary in design than revolutionary. Broken down to its fundamental features, cloud computing is the movement from individual...
Provided by Bowie State University
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White Papers
Transit Portal: Bringing Connectivity to the Cloud
Jun 2009
Computing in the cloud is becoming more common as companies migrate their applications into cloud computing platforms to reduce maintenance costs and increase availability. Cloud hosting...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
Cloudonomics: The Economics of Cloud Computing
Aug 2011
There are many reasons for organizations to move from traditional IT infrastructure to Cloud Computing. One of the most cited benefits is the economics of the Cloud. Yet while many people point...
Provided by Rackspace Hosting
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White Papers
Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes
Sep 2008
Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a highly scalable cloud computing platform with high availability and dependability, and the flexibility to enable customers to build a wide range of...
Provided by Amazon.com
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White Papers
ENTERPRISE SECURITY GETS SMART
Jun 2009
IT security professionals are increasingly more concerned about the ever-rising threat from computer viruses. Many would argue the bad guys are getting ahead in the security industry and that...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
CLOUD-CLIENT ENTERPRISE SECURITY IMPACT REPORT: INCREASED PROTECTION AT A LOWER COST
Jun 2009
Malware, spam and other threats on the Internet are an increasing problem for organizations of all types and sizes and defending against these threats is making it difficult to conduct business...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Cloud Computing for the Enterprise
Jun 2009
Cloud Computing is a set of IT/Business application services that companies provide for a pay-per use or rental basis. Storage, servers, and applications also fall in this realm of Cloud Computing...
Provided by Clerisoft
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White Papers
Toward Automatic Discovery of Malware Signature for Anti-Virus Cloud Computing
Feb 2009
Security vendors are facing a serious problem of defeating the complexity of malwares. With the popularity and the variety of zero-day malware over the Internet, generating their signatures for...
Provided by Trend Micro
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Case Studies
Google Apps Case Study: Hamilton Beach simplifies global e-mail operations and saves 60% with Google Apps Premier Edition
May 2009
Google Apps — the enterprise-grade suite of email, calendar, IM, and collaboration tools that can be accessed securely from any browser — delivers the familiar Gmail experience that millions of...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Nucleus Research Case Study: 2nd Wind
Mar 2009
2nd Wind was founded in Minneapolis in 1991 as a specialty used exercise equipment dealer, and grew rapidly. It found that its collaboration and project management needs stretched beyond just...
Provided by Nucleus Research
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