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Case Studies
CEVA Seamlessly Merges Its IT Portfolio Using Compuware Changepoint
Sep 2008
CEVA, one of the world's largest transport and logistics companies, has more than 50,000 employees in over a hundred countries. CEVA wanted to ensure business continued as usual during a merger...
Provided by Compuware
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Changepoint Helps High-Flying Software House Keep to Timetable
May 2009
Datalex is a leading provider of travel distribution software and solutions that enable global travel industry suppliers and distributors to deliver increased content and choice to their customers...
Provided by Compuware
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Healthcare Network Achieves Automation Goals With Help of Vantage
Mar 2009
The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is Southeast Michigan's leading healthcare provider, operating eight facilities with 3,000 credentialed physicians. Detroit Medical Center (DMC) chose to...
Provided by Compuware
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Dole Teams Up With Compuware for Proactive Problem Resolution
Jan 2010
Dole Food Company is the world's largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit and produce. A lack of visibility into numerous issues within mission-critical applications and the...
Provided by Compuware
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Bank Tackles Inefficient Problem Resolution
Aug 2008
EDS, a leading global technology services company, provides La Caixa Bank with a business process outsourcing solution. La Caixa Bank needed visibility into business-relevant metrics and...
Provided by Compuware
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IT Service Provider Improves Client Satisfaction With Proactive Applications Management
Oct 2008
As a worldwide IT service provider with customers ranging from small companies to the Global 1000, Getronics has an extensive IT infrastructure. Getronics decided to improve the application...
Provided by Compuware
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Improving Customer Care for Mobile Data Service Providers
Oct 2009
Customer retention is a critical ingredient to successful business growth for mobile data service providers. Mobile service providers have difficulty managing call center operations effectively...
Provided by Compuware
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Case Studies
Lapointe Rosenstein L.L.P. Provides Better Service With Same Staff
Jan 2009
No matter what size the firm, in order to stay competitive and satisfy clients, IT must support a large number of applications. For a small international law firm, like Lapointe Rosenstein, that...
Provided by Compuware
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Environmental Organization Gains Workflow Visibility and Greater Financial Accountability
Aug 2008
Environmental issues look set to dominate the agenda in the 21st century. The council wanted to better understand how employees were deployed, improve visibility of workflow and gain greater...
Provided by Compuware
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Pinsent Masons Excels in Application Performance Troubleshooting
Mar 2009
The merger between Pinsent and Masons created a U.K. top ten law firm with more than 240 partners, a legal team of 900 people and over 1,500 staff in total. After a merger, Pinsent Masons was...
Provided by Compuware
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Case Studies
Network Monitoring Helps Improve Troubleshooting and Performance for New York State
Jan 2009
With 18,000 users and 1,400 sites, one Citrix-based service was critical for the functioning of a major New York state government unit. QoS Networking had to determine the reason for poor...
Provided by Compuware
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Software Firm Overcomes Limits of First-Generation Web System to Create "Rich Web" Product - Ahead of Its Time
Oct 2008
Established in 1986, Raindrop Information Systems is a global leader in property management systems. This provider of property management software needed to create a "Rich web" interface before...
Provided by Compuware
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SDWorx Uses Changepoint to Track Consultant Time, Billing and IT Planning
Jan 2009
SDWorx is continually growing, and with a number of business divisions using different time tracking systems, the company was keen to consolidate systems in order to reduce inter-departmental...
Provided by Compuware
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Case Studies
The Auto Club Group - AAA Attains Executive-Level Visibility Into Critical Application Performance
Dec 2008
As part of an effort to modernize, The Auto Club Group - AAA sought to convert its core Sales and Service application from a Windows to an AIX environment. AAA needed a systematic and effective...
Provided by Compuware
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Law Firm Improves Productivity by Minimizing Troubleshooting Time
Dec 2008
Time is money. Especially for tightly run law firms like Ungaretti & Harris. The firm Ungaretti & Harris needed to change its way of handling IT problems. Instead of just reacting to issues as...
Provided by Compuware
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Case Studies
Bancomer Speeds Deployment of Online Financial Services to Over 200,000 Users
May 2008
Grupo Financiero Bancomer (GFB) is one of Mexico's leading financial services holding company with total assets of 2.5 billion dollars. Company's challenge was to ensure fast user access and to...
Provided by Micro Focus
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: BT Financial Group
Jan 2009
Business IT is a relative newcomer to process automation. Whereas automotive and heavy equipment manufacturers have used software to smart-wire products and eliminate wearyingly repeatable tasks...
Provided by BMC Software
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How IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture Can Be an Integral Part of an Event-Driven Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture
Apr 2008
The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change. Winning companies sense, anticipate and proactively respond to change, the rest trail behind. Business Agility, the ability to...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Cloud Computing in the Public Sector: Public Manager's Guide to Evaluating and Adopting Cloud Computing
Nov 2009
Cloud computing - delivering infrastructure, services, and software on demand via the network - offers attractive advantages to the public sector. For example, it has the potential to reduce...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Disaster Recovery for PTC Windchill Solutions With VMware Site Recovery Manager
Sep 2009
Windchill uses different repositories to store content files, metadata, and user data, and synchronization of these repositories needs to be managed in recovery situations. Addressing the high...
Provided by VMware
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A Proposed Model for Enhancing Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing Systems
Jun 2012
The reported recent success of cloud computing has attracted attention for cost effective IT services with many signs for continuing spread out if not dominating in the coming years. However,...
Provided by Journal of Computing
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Cloud Computing Security Issues, Challenges and Solution
Aug 2012
Cloud computing is an Internet-based computing, where shared resources, software and information, are provided to computers and devices on-demand. It provides people the way to share distributed...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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There Is No Cloud
Jan 2010
Cloud is not a technology solution that comes shrink-wrapped in a box. It's something you build to get the capabilities you need to improve the performance of your business. For a term that was...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Big Plans - Small Budget an Alternative Option for Business Continuity
Apr 2010
The snow earlier this year - believed to have cost UK businesses over £1bn - has been a timely reminder for companies to look at their business continuity plans and ensure they are prepared for...
Provided by CS RM&C
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Case Studies
Software Startup Triples Productivity, Saves $500,000 With Cloud Computing Solution
Mar 2010
sharpcloud was founded on a revolutionary idea: to enhance strategy development efforts by using the interactive and collaborative tools familiar to people who use social networking sites. But...
Provided by Microsoft
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Terremark Delivers Breakthrough Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Solutions With NetApp Storage
Jan 2010
As a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services, Terremark Worldwide provides managed hosting, colocation, networking, and security services. Terremark's cloud-based DR offering is...
Provided by NetApp
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HDFC Improves Operational Efficiency and Reduces Risk With NetApp
Jan 2009
Incorporated in 1977, HDFC Ltd. pioneered the home finance business in India in the 1970s, when demand for housing in India's urban areas was booming. The company's challenge was to build a...
Provided by NetApp
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CA Saves $16 Million and More Than 25 Years of Developers?: Time by Automating Provisioning for Labs on Demand Service
Mar 2010
CA's thousands of developers need access to a variety of server platforms to create and test code for new products and releases. Demand for test systems can vary considerably. To fulfill these...
Provided by CA
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Zynga Grows to #1 Social Gaming Site With RightScale
Mar 2010
Zynga is the largest developer of social games on the Web, with hugely popular titles such as FarmVille, Mafia Wars, Café World, Zynga Poker, YoVille, FishVille and PetVille. Zynga's online games...
Provided by RightScale
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Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School Minimizes Cloud Computing Management Using RightScale
Aug 2009
The LPM needed a way to increase the efficiency of its cloud deployments. While cloud computing offered a powerful computational platform for the LPM, a major challenge was to reduce the amount of...
Provided by RightScale
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RightScale Helps Sonoa Win New Customers and Increase Satisfaction
Aug 2009
Sonoa Systems provides an innovative software solution for visibility and control of cloud computing services and APIs. Sonoa needed an automated cloud-deployment system to ensure a quick and...
Provided by RightScale
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ReliaCloud's Pay-as-You-Go Cloud Server Platform Provides a Solid Gaming Environment for Preston Kelly
Mar 2010
Preston Kelly is the rare full-service agency without the silo mentality and profit-centered motives that tear down an iconic brand story. The challenge was to find a cost-effective and reliable...
Provided by ReliaCloud
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Turkish Telecommunications Provider Maximizes Investments in IT Staff and Infrastructure
Apr 2010
Turkish mobile telecommunications pioneer Turkcell provides a broad range of services to more than 36 million subscribers. As the company expanded its offerings and product lines, IT operations...
Provided by Microsoft
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IBM Case Study: Commerzbank-Client Video
Nov 2009
Commerzbank is the third largest private bank in Germany, and one of the leading financial institutions in Europe. The major challenge IT staff face is the complexity of the bank's infrastructure....
Provided by IBM
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IBM Case Study: First Citizens Bank - Client Video
Oct 2009
First Citizens Bank is a 105 year old institution and is currently the largest family controlled bank in America today with roughly over 5,000 employees and 340 branches. The bank operates in...
Provided by IBM
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City of Madrid: Coordinated Emergency Response Raises Public Safety to a New Level
Mar 2010
The Centro Integrado de Seguridad y Emergencias de Madrid's (CISEM's) mission was to reduce emergency response time, integrate information, standardize procedures and protocols, provide seamless...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Jumping on the Cloud-Wagon?: Pack Your Server Applications for the Trip
Mar 2009
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;...
Provided by AppZero
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Service Exchange@Cloud: Low Investment, Non-Linear Revenue Growth Engine for Everyone!
Apr 2009
Service Exchange @ Cloud is a platform, where the Service Publishers and Services Subscribers can do business online for mutual benefits. It is not new from the business idea perspective; there...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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Realizing the Value Proposition of Cloud Computing: CIO's Enterprise IT Strategy for Cloud
Apr 2009
Cloud Computing is a model for provisioning and consuming IT capabilities on a need and pay use basis. This helps in shifting the cost structure from capital expenditure to operating expenditure...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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2009 Survey of Cloud Computing
Feb 2009
Executives around the globe are facing a conundrum. In the midst of widespread economic turmoil, a recent global survey of C-level executives and IT decision-makers shows a clear, collective...
Provided by Avanade
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Word Storms: Multiples of Word Clouds for Visual Comparison of Documents
Jan 2013
Word clouds are a popular tool for visualizing documents, but they are not a good tool for comparing documents, because identical words are not presented consistently across different clouds. The...
Provided by University of Economics, Prague
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FAST CLOUD: Pushing the Envelope on Delay Performance of Cloud Storage With Coding
Jan 2013
In this paper, the authors' paper presents solutions that can significantly improve the delay performance of putting and retrieving data in and out of cloud storage. They first focus on measuring...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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From 3D Point Clouds to Semantic Objects
Jul 2011
This paper presents a knowledge-based detection of objects approach using the OWL ontology language, the Semantic Web Rule Language, and 3D processing built-ins aiming at combining geometrical...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Knowledge Base Approach for 3D Objects Detection in Point Clouds Using 3D Processing and Specialists Knowledge
Jul 2012
This paper presents a knowledge-based detection of objects approach using the OWL ontology language, the Semantic Web Rule Language, and 3D processing built-ins aiming at combining geometrical...
Provided by Universite D Avignon
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Toward the Automatic Generation of a Semantic VRML Model From Unorganized 3D Point Clouds
Dec 2011
This paper presents the authors' experience regarding the creation of 3D semantic facility model out of unorganized 3D point clouds. Thus, a knowledge-based detection approach of objects using the...
Provided by Universite D Avignon
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Social Secret Sharing for Resource Management in Cloud
Jan 2013
The authors first explain the notion of secret sharing and also threshold schemes, which can be implemented with the Shamir's secret sharing. Subsequently, they review social secret sharing and...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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HTC Scientific Computing in a Distributed Cloud Environment
Feb 2013
This paper describes the use of a distributed cloud computing system for High-Throughput Computing (HTC) scientific applications. The distributed cloud computing system is composed of a number of...
Provided by University of Veszprem
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On a Catalogue of Metrics for Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services
Jun 2012
Given the continually increasing amount of commercial Cloud services in the market, evaluation of different services plays a significant role in cost-benefit analysis or decision making for...
Provided by NICTA
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Towards a Taxonomy of Performance Evaluation of Commercial Cloud Services
May 2012
Cloud Computing, as one of the most promising computing paradigms, has become increasingly accepted in industry. Numerous commercial providers have started to supply public Cloud services, and...
Provided by NICTA
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Building an Expert System for Evaluation of Commercial Cloud Services
Feb 2013
Commercial Cloud services have been increasingly supplied to customers in industry. To facilitate customers' decision makings like cost-benefit analysis or Cloud provider selection, evaluation of...
Provided by NICTA
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A Factor Framework for Experimental Design for Performance Evaluation of Commercial Cloud Services
Feb 2013
Given the diversity of commercial Cloud services, performance evaluations of candidate services would be crucial and beneficial for both service customers (e.g. cost-benefit analysis) and...
Provided by NICTA
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VM-MAD: A Cloud/cluster Software for Service-Oriented Academic Environments
Mar 2013
The availability of powerful computing hardware in IaaS clouds makes cloud computing attractive also for computational workloads that were up to now almost exclusively run on HPC clusters. In this...
Provided by ETH Zurich
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On Weak Dress Codes for Cloud Storage
Feb 2013
In a distributed storage network, reliability and bandwidth optimization can be provided by regenerating codes. Recently table based regenerating codes viz. DRESS (Distributed Replication-based...
Provided by Cornell University
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A Genetic Algorithm for Power-Aware Virtual Machine Allocation in Private Cloud
Feb 2013
Energy efficiency has become an important measurement of scheduling algorithm for private cloud. The challenge is trade-off between minimizing of energy consumption and satisfying Quality of...
Provided by Cornell University
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SecLaaS: Secure Logging-as-a-Service for Cloud Forensics
Feb 2013
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. Analyzing...
Provided by University of Al-Jabal Al-Gharbi
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Cloud Forensics: A Meta-Study of Challenges, Approaches, and Open Problems
Feb 2013
In recent years, cloud computing has become popular as a cost-effective and efficient computing paradigm. Unfortunately, today's cloud computing architectures are not designed for security and...
Provided by University of Al-Jabal Al-Gharbi
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Cloud Computing -An Approach With Modern Cryptography
Mar 2013
In this paper, the authors are proposing an algorithm which uses AES technique of 128/192/256 bit cipher key in encryption and decryption of data. AES provides high security as compared to other...
Provided by TATA Communications
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Inter-Cloud Data Security Strategies
Mar 2013
Cloud computing is a complex infrastructure of software, hardware, processing, and storage that is available as a service. Cloud computing offers immediate access to large numbers of the world's...
Provided by TATA Communications
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Integration of SOA and Cloud Computing in RMODP
Aug 2012
The objective of ODP is according to ITU-T Recommendation X.901 stated as follows: "The objective of ODP standardization is the development of standards that allow the benefits of distributing...
Provided by Cornell University
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VSkyConf: Cloud-Assisted Multi-Party Mobile Video Conferencing
Mar 2013
As an important application in today's busy world, mobile video conferencing facilitates people's virtual face-to-face communication with friends, families and colleagues, via their mobile devices...
Provided by University of Hohenheim
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A Real-Time Group Auction System for Efficient Allocation of Cloud Internet Applications
Apr 2013
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....
Provided by Nanyang Technological University
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A Paradigm for the Application of Cloud Computing in Mobile Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Mar 2013
Now-a-days, with the rapid growth of cloud computing, many industries are going to move their computing activities to clouds. Researchers of virtual learning are also looking for the ways to use...
Provided by Islamic Azad University
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Nimble Algorithms for Cloud Computing
Apr 2013
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...
Provided by Georgia Tech
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Cloud Computing Research Challenges
Mar 2013
In recent times cloud computing has appeared as a new model for hosting and conveying services over the Internet. This model is striking to business vendors as it eradicates the requirement for...
Provided by University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene
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Reallocation and Allocation of Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing
Apr 2013
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...
Provided by Dharmsinh Desai University
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Reputation Algebra for Cloud-Based Anonymous Data Storage Systems
Jul 2012
Given a cloud-based anonymous data storage system, there are two ways for managing the nodes involved in file transfers. One of them is using reputations and the other uses a micropayment system....
Provided by Cornell University
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Identifying Key Challenges in Performance Issues in Cloud Computing
Oct 2012
Cloud computing is a harbinger to a newer era in the field of computing where distributed and centralized services are used in a unique way. In cloud computing, the computational resources of...
Provided by mecs-press
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Improving Utilization of Infrastructure Cloud
Mar 2013
A key advantage of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud is providing users on-demand access to resources. However, to provide on-demand access, cloud providers must either significantly...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Mobile Cloud Computing: Implications and Challenges
Sep 2012
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...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization for Green Clouds
Jul 2012
As Internet Data Centers (IDCs) have been increasing in scale and complexity, they are currently a significant source of energy consumption and CO2 emission. This paper proposes and evaluates a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Queuing Theoretic and Evolutionary Deployment Optimization With Probabilistic SLas for Service Oriented Clouds
May 2008
This paper envisions service-oriented applications in cloud computing environments. A service-oriented application consists of a set of services and a workflow. Each service encapsulates the...
Provided by University of Maryland University College
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An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach to Adaptive and Stable Application Deployment in Clouds
May 2008
This paper studies an evolutionary game theoretic mechanism for adaptive and stable application deployment in cloud computing environments. The proposed mechanism, called Nuage, allows...
Provided by University of Maryland University College
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Self-Stabilizable Symbiosis for Cloud Data Center Applications: A Game Theoretic Perspective
Sep 2012
This paper describes and evaluates a self-stabilizable adaptation framework for data center applications. The design of the proposed architecture, SymbioticSphere, is inspired by key biological...
Provided by University of Maryland University College
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Vision in IT from Cloud Computing
Dec 2011
In this paper, the authors' proposes a new concept for Automaticeconomic IT and optimum usage of resource in IT, especially for educational institutes. Theoretical background and overview is...
Provided by NIT
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Cloud Computing: Overview & Current Research Challenges
Dec 2012
Cloud computing is a set of IT services that are provided to a customer over a network on a leased basis and with the ability to scale up or down their service requirements. Usually Cloud...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Dynamic Mobile Cloud Computing: Ad Hoc and Opportunistic Job Sharing
Jan 2012
Despite increasing usage of mobile computing, exploiting its full potential is difficult due to problems such as resource sparseness. In this paper, the authors explore the feasibility of a mobile...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Mobile Crowd Computing With Work Stealing
Nov 2012
By pooling together the processing power of mobile devices within a crowd to form a 'Mobile cloud', these devices be efficiently utilized to help realize the full potential of mobile computing....
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Supporting Ubiquitous Sensor-Cloudlets and Context-Cloudlets: Programming Compositions of Context-Aware Systems for Mobile Users
Oct 2011
Increasing widespread use of sensor and networking technologies are yielding ubiquitous sensors and applications that pervade daily life. At the same time, context-aware pervasive computing has...
Provided by Reed Business Information
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Mobile Cloud Computing: A Survey
Jul 2012
Despite increasing usage of mobile computing, exploiting its full potential is difficult due to its inherent problems such as resource scarcity, frequent disconnections, and mobility. Mobile cloud...
Provided by Reed Business Information
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Research on Mobile Cloud Computing: Review, Trend and Perspectives
Apr 2012
Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) which combines mobile computing and cloud computing, has become one of the industry buzz words and a major discussion thread in the IT world since 2009. As MCC is...
Provided by University of Maine at Presque Isle
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White Papers
Datasheet: Infrastructure as a Service
May 2010
'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...
Provided by SunGard Availability Services
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Case Study: Cloud brings growth opportunities to Infinity
May 2010
Infinity, a specialist platform provider to the financial services industry, needed 'Infrastructure as a Service' that could ensure continuous uptime and secure storage of its customers' highly...
Provided by SunGard Availability Services
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A Security Framework for an Enterprise System on Cloud
Sep 2012
Enterprise systems provide integrated information for all activities in an organization. These systems serve as a vital asset to any organization and hence it becomes mandatory to ensure their...
Provided by Indian Journal of Computer Science and Engineering (IJCSE)
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A Review Paper on Cryptographic Approach for License Management System in Cloud Computing
Sep 2012
Computational world is become very large and complex. Cloud computing has emerged as a popular computing model to support on demand services. It has inherited the legacy technology and adding new...
Provided by Indian Journal of Computer Science and Engineering (IJCSE)
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Survey Some Attacks on Client Side, Browser & Cloud
Jul 2012
Cloud computing is not a new name in the technology world, but there are many new issues arises related with cloud. Every time in consumer mind a fear rotates because they are aware from...
Provided by Indian Journal of Computer Science and Engineering (IJCSE)
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Service Provider Selection of IAAS using Naive Bayes Approach
May 2012
Cloud is a new trend of computing. This type of computing resources are pay-as-you-go plans, as more and more consumer delegate their task to cloud provider, service level agreement are necessary....
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT)
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PREPARE: Predictive Performance Anomaly Prevention for Virtualized Cloud Systems
Apr 2012
Virtualized cloud systems are prone to performance anomalies due to various reasons such as resource contentions, software bugs, and hardware failures. In this paper, the authors present a novel...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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FairCloud: Sharing the Network in Cloud Computing
Aug 2012
The network, similar to CPU and memory, is a critical and shared resource in the cloud. However, unlike other resources, it is neither shared proportionally to payment, nor do cloud providers...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Making Middleboxes Someone Else's Problem: Network Processing as a Cloud Service
Aug 2012
Modern enterprises almost ubiquitously deploy middlebox processing services to improve security and performance in their networks. Despite this, the authors find that today's middlebox...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Case Studies
Cloud Computing Saves Time, Money and Shortens Production Cycle
Mar 2009
TAP's role is to prototype and deploy new IBM technologies with 100,000 early adopters who will test-drive and provide feedback on new applications. Based on their feedback, IBM decides which of...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IBM Computing on Demand Uses Clouds to Increase Business Productivity
May 2011
Many companies need to scale up their computing capacity in a short period of time to meet peaks in their demand and then scale back down. IBM can deliver the additional computing capacity these...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Cloud Services Help Performance-Testing Firm Simulate Real-World Internet Traffic
Apr 2010
SOASTA, a company that tests Web applications, needed access to thousands of geographically dispersed servers to simulate real-world Internet traffic for its customers. Instead of buying its own...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
U.S.-Based Insurer Reduces Downtime, Costs While Improving Productivity
Apr 2010
As the company's IT infrastructure grew, it became difficult for staff to maintain and manage these scripts. Manual processes consumed nearly 15 percent of one team member's time and left the...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Maxis Mobile Sdn Bhd: Improving Management Consistency With Management Development Program
Oct 2009
Maxis decided it needed to develop a stream of capable managers, with consistent values and ways of approaching personnel management across the Maxis organization. By adapting the IBM Management...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
TelstraClear Strengthens Quality of Triple-Play, Next-Generation Offerings With Real-Time Service Management
Jul 2009
TelstraClear Limited wanted to gain end-to-end visibility of infrastructure to strengthen service quality and facilitate new product rollouts. TelstraClear Limited deployed a service management...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Global Distributed Service in the Cloud With F5 and VMware
Aug 2009
The term "Cloud computing" has been a prevalent, forward-thinking component of IT for the past year, fueled by new technologies in the local data center such as virtualization. Like most new terms...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Controlling the Cloud: Requirements for Cloud Computing
Jan 2010
Cloud computing represents not a revolution but an evolution of existing enterprise computing architectures, dating back to the first instance of networked computing. The difference is that today...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Availability and the Cloud
Apr 2010
Cloud computing, while still evolving in all its iterations, can offer IT a powerful alternative for efficient application, infrastructure, and platform delivery. As businesses continue to embrace...
Provided by F5 Networks
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The Optimized and Accelerated Cloud
Mar 2010
Cloud computing is an interesting change in the data center because it simultaneously offers huge benefits and brings huge risks to enterprise IT. The benefits come from providing a much more...
Provided by F5 Networks
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The Cloudy Future of Government It: Cloud Computing and the Public Sector Around the World
Jan 2010
Cloud computing is fast creating a revolution in the way information technology is used and procured by organizations and by individuals. This paper examine what cloud computing is and the...
Provided by Southeastern Louisiana University
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The Emerging Confluence of BPM and Cloud Computing: What Does It Mean for BPM Adoption and Success?
Mar 2010
Cloud computing offers many advantages for BPM adoption and would help in removing some of the key challenges that have hindered BPM success. The goal of enterprise BPM and inter?]organization...
Provided by Virtusa
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Cloud Computing: An Overview
Jun 2009
Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and others have built large, purpose-built architectures to support their applications and taught the rest of the world how to do massively scalable architectures to support...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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A Unified Execution Model for Cloud Computing
Oct 2009
This paper presents the design goals and architecture for a Unified Execution Model (UEM) for cloud computing and clusters. The UEM combines interfaces for logical provisioning and distributed...
Provided by IBM
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Towards a Cloud Computing Research Agenda
Apr 2009
The 2008 LADIS workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems brought together leaders from the commercial cloud computing community with researchers working on a variety of topics in distributed...
Provided by Cornell University
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Exploiting Non-Dedicated Resources for Cloud Computing
Nov 2009
Popular web services and applications such as Google Apps, DropBox, and Go.Pc introduce a wasteful imbalance of processing resources. Each host operated by a provider serves hundreds to thousands...
Provided by Zuse Institute Berlin
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What's Inside the Cloud?: An Architectural Map of the Cloud Landscape
Feb 2009
Cloud computing is emerging as a model in support of "Everything-as-a-Service" (XaaS). Virtualized physical resources, virtualized infrastructure, as well as virtualized middleware platforms and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Minimizing Execution Costs When Using Globally Distributed Cloud Services
Jan 2010
Cloud computing is an emerging technology that allows users to utilize on-demand computation, storage, data and services from around the world. However, Cloud service providers charge users for...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Decentralized Overlay for Federation of Enterprise Clouds
Jan 2010
This paper describes Aneka-Federation, a decentralized and distributed system that combines enterprise Clouds, overlay networking, and structured peer-to-peer techniques to create scalable...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Today and Tomorrow
Feb 2009
During the past few years, cloud computing has become a key IT buzzword. Although the definition of cloud computing is still "Cloudy", the trade press and bloggers label many vendors as cloud...
Provided by Journal of Object Technology (JOT)
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White Papers
The Utility of Cloud Computing as a New Pricing - And Consumption - Model for Information Technology
Nov 2009
This paper provides the reader with a look at the cloud computing concept and its likely impact on information technology. It begins with a look at how cloud computing has rapidly evolved,...
Provided by Southeastern Louisiana University
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White Papers
Forecast: Improved Economy in the Cloud: An Introduction to Cloud Computing in Government
Mar 2010
Just as cable companies offer consumers a range of services - basic cable packages, premium channels, and pay-per-view - cloud computing brings to government flexible choices about computing...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
The Cloud or the Mist?
Sep 2009
This paper will discuss the potential security risks of storing information in the cloud with respect to malware. It will explore whether malware can infiltrate the cloud, what effects it can...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
The Case for Cloud Computing
Mar 2009
Cloud computing doesn't yet have a standard definition, but a good working description of it is to say that clouds, or clusters of distributed computers, provide on-demand resources and services...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Cloud Computing - A Hot Topic in 2010 When Cost Reduction Is on Everyone's Mind
Feb 2010
Cloud computing, is an emerging computing technology that allows clients to access, via the Internet, a wide array of data and software stored remotely on central servers owned and operated by a...
Provided by Phillips & Reiter
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White Papers
Clouded in Uncertainty - The Legal Pitfalls of Cloud Computing
Sep 2008
Business leaders are becoming more open to the idea of buying IT as a service, rather than owning infrastructure. The enticing prospect of releasing the enterprise from the shackles of buying and...
Provided by Incisive Media Investments
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White Papers
Searching for SNPs With Cloud Computing
Nov 2009
As DNA sequencing outpaces improvements in computer speed, there is a critical need to accelerate tasks like alignment and SNP calling. Crossbow is a cloud-computing software tool that combines...
Provided by BioMed Central
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White Papers
Cloud Computing for the Sciences
Jun 2009
What exactly is cloud computing, and how is it important to science and engineering? This simple-looking question turns out to be hard to answer. According to Wikipedia, "Cloud computing is a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Controlling Data in the Cloud: Outsourcing Computation Without Outsourcing Control
Nov 2009
Cloud computing is clearly one of today's most enticing technology areas due, at least in part, to its cost-efficiency and flexibility. However, despite the surge in activity and interest, there...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Computing in the Cloud
Oct 2009
Cloud computing has become a very hot term in the last few years, but a clear description of what it is, what it can do, and why companies might use it is often difficult to find. The concept and...
Provided by Modelbenders
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White Papers
Cloudy With a Chance Of... Great Service!: Fair Weather in the Cloud Requires Management of the Service Value Chain
Feb 2010
With the evolution of the cloud-connected enterprise, Service Value Chain Management becomes a crucial component of success. Now that multiple service providers - whether from within the cloud,...
Provided by CA
