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White Papers
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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Whitepapers
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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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
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White Papers
Service Portfolio Management: Manage IT for Business Value
Feb 2010
Years of acquiring and managing IT from a problem-fix and techno-speak perspective put the technology function at odds with what business customers expect - demonstrable business value. Business...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Service Level Management: A CA Service Management Process Map
Jan 2010
The main objective of Service Level Management is to build and maintain a customer oriented focus, moving away from traditional based thinking in "Systems" to "Service" based thinking. This often...
Provided by CA
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Webcasts
IT Manager Webcast: IT Manager Community Chat With Kevin Remde: Collaboration Online: Windows Azure (Level 200)
Apr 2010
The attendee of this webcast will learn how Windows Azure can help the business adjust to changing conditions, innovate, and stay competitive in the market. By taking advantage of a combination of...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Business Insights Webcast: Why Microsoft Has the Leading Cloud Solutions (Level 100)
May 2010
This webcast is intended for IT decision makers who want to hear the Microsoft cloud computing story and understand the benefits for bringing their business to the cloud. Microsoft delivers a...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Create an Architecture and Roadmap for Your Private Cloud
May 2010
The private cloud vision has captured the attention of enterprise IT leaders and strategists because it promises unprecedented economies of scale and dramatically improved business agility. The...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Protecting Business-Critical Applications During a Disaster
Apr 2010
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) delivers an industry first in the coordination and orchestration of disaster planning and mitigation for the virtual infrastructure - enabling to meet the...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Automating Disaster Recovery in Virtual Environments
Apr 2010
As virtual data centers drive higher levels of consolidation and protection, replication for disaster recovery becomes a critical part of any virtualization strategy. The attendee will hear about...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Microsoft IT Venture Integration Team Uses Strategic Acquisition Process
Apr 2010
To help address complexities in integrating acquisitions, the Venture Integration team in Microsoft IT developed a strategic playbook that breaks the IT integration process into distinct phases....
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
How Microsoft Secures the Cloud Infrastructure
Apr 2010
The attendee of this webcast will learn about how Microsoft secures its cloud infrastructure and take away some best practices for the organization moving to the cloud.
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
The Journey to the Cloud: An Analyst's Perspective
Apr 2010
The presenter of this webcast discusses the state of the industry today in virtualization and cloud computing. The presenter covers in particular the challenges and opportunities that businesses...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Radio: Microsoft Cloud Services: Windows Azure in Education
Apr 2010
The United States' current focus on education and accountability from district to state and to the national level, calls for new solutions that allow collaboration, deep reporting capabilities,...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Simulcast: The Next Wave: Windows Azure
Mar 2010
The future of highly available, high-performance, secure, dynamically scalable, hosted computing is here. It's Microsoft's new online service computing platform: Windows Azure. The presenter will...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
How Cloud Service Consumers Manage and Govern Cloud-Based Applications
Apr 2010
If the organization is like most others, one is evaluating the cloud architecture to understand how to gain the benefits of consuming cloud services. Whether one plans to consume cloud services in...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
System Center Operations Manager to BMC Remedy Integration Pack Demo
Feb 2010
The presenter builds a point-to-point integration between Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and BMC Remedy. By following this demonstration one will be able to monitor Operations Manager...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and Intel vPro Technology Demonstration
Feb 2008
The presenter of this webcast demonstrates the Intel vPro integration for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2.
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Designing a Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan for Your SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure
Feb 2010
What infrastructure plan would be complete without understanding how to recover from a catastrophic occurrence? This webcast shows how to design the SharePoint infrastructure to become as...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
On the Move Creating a Culture of Business Growth
Jan 2010
As the global economic recovery slowly gathers pace, many companies remain focused on preventing further financial losses rather than ensuring future gains. They simply ducked for cover during the...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Model-Driven Application Deployment for Cloud Computing Environments
Jan 2010
The accepted best practice for creating virtual machine images for cloud computing environments is to create a golden master image that is then replicated for each virtual machine instance that is...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
New Efforts for ProjectWEB to Be Business Infrastructure
Apr 2010
Since its introduction in 1998, ProjectWEB, Fujitsu's in-house knowledge management tool has played an essential role in Fujitsu's systems engineering work. Recently, increasing numbers of...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Cisco Wide Area Application Services Optimizes Application Delivery From the Cloud
Jan 2010
The adoption of cloud-based computing and applications promises to improve the agility, efficiency, and cost effectiveness of IT operations required to provision, scale, and deliver applications...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Is Your Small Business Ready for Non-Stop Operations?: A Simple Guide for Maintaining Business Continuity Through Communications
Feb 2010
Small and Midsize Enterprises (SMEs) operate in a relentlessly challenging environment that continually requires making payroll amid economic uncertainty, finding and retaining top-notch...
Provided by Avaya
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White Papers
SunGard Aquires Hosting 365
Jun 2010
A synopsis of SunGard's acquisition of 365 Hosting Limited, a Dublin, Ireland-based cloud computing and data centre services company which trades as 'Hosting 365'. Privately-owned Hosting 365 has...
Provided by SunGard Availability Services
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White Papers
The Key to Business Survival
Jun 2010
The demand for information is increasing exponentially while our tolerance for being without that information is decreasing at an even faster rate. This whitepapers looks at how Sungard...
Provided by SunGard Availability Services
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Whitepapers
Data Integrity of Cloud Data Storages (CDSs) in Cloud
Mar 2013
The growing need of Information Technology in every field has lead to the evolution of cloud computing for highly efficient usage of IT resources. Cloud provides services through internet. The...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing: Types, Architecture, Applications, Concerns, Virtualization and Role of IT Governance in Cloud
Mar 2013
Technology innovation and its adoption are two critical successful factors for any business/organization. Cloud computing is a recent technology paradigm that enables organizations or individuals...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Encrypted Data Storage in Cloud Environment
Mar 2013
Cloud Computing is the use of computing resources that are deliverable as a service over a network. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence. The cloud server may leak...
Provided by Anna University
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Whitepapers
Eco-efficient Approaches to Cloud Computing: A Review
Mar 2013
Cloud computing has emerged as a new paradigm of computing and gains increasing attention from both academic and business community. Its utility-based usage model allows users to pay per use,...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Efficient Secure Group Communication in Cloud Computing Environment
Mar 2013
Cloud Computing has been envisioned as the next-generation architecture of IT Enterprise. In the authors' day today life they are using many web applications. Many of the users know to create web...
Provided by VIT Software, LLC
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing: Security Issues And Description Of Encryption Based Algorithms To Overcome Them
Mar 2013
Cloud computing today is the latest buzzword in the software industry, an evolutionary step which encompasses elements from grid computing, utility computing and autonomic computing, into...
Provided by Amity University
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Whitepapers
A Study on Adaptive Fault Tolerance in Real Time Cloud Computing
Mar 2013
The biggest buzz in the computer world is Cloud Computing. To different people cloud computing means different things. Cloud computing may be defined as management and provision of resources,...
Provided by Lovely Professional University
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Whitepapers
Deploying Cloud Applications in Educational Organizations
Mar 2013
Cloud computing is becoming an adoptable technology for many of the organizations with its dynamic scalability and usage of virtualized resources as a service through the Internet. It will likely...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Secure Broker Cloud Computing Paradigm Using AES And Selective AES Algorithm
Mar 2013
Cloud computing is highly promising technology because of its unlimited resource provisioning and data storage services which help the user in managing the data as per requirements. But this area...
Provided by Punjab National Bank
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Whitepapers
Using Third Party Auditor for Cloud Data Security: A Review
Mar 2013
Cloud data security is a major concern for the client while using the cloud services provided by the service provider. There can be some security issues and conflicts between the client and the...
Provided by Lovely Professional University
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Whitepapers
Ensuring Distributed Accountability for Data Sharing in the Cloud
Mar 2013
Cloud computing is the use of computing of sources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the internet).It enables highly scalable services to be easily...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Reliable Proxy Re-encryption in Unreliable Clouds
Mar 2013
In this paper, the authors propose an efficient data retrieval scheme using attribute-based encryption. The proposed scheme is best suited for cloud storage systems with substantial amount of...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Effective Utilization of Cache in Cloud
Mar 2013
Cloud has the capability to rent a service, based up on the client requirements, and has the capability to store large volumes of data in it, which consists of both historic and present data in...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing:Service models,Types,Database and ssues
Mar 2013
The evolution of cloud computing over the past few years is potentially one of the major advances in the history of computing. From a user's perspective, cloud computing involves performing a task...
Provided by G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Efficient and Enhanced Algorithm in Cloud Computing
Mar 2013
A class of systems and applications that procure distributed resources to execute the function in the decentralized manner is referred as cloud computing. It enables a wide range of users to...
Provided by International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering (IJSCE)
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Whitepapers
Currency Exchange Rates Prediction Based on Linear Regression Analysis Using Cloud Computing
Apr 2013
In global open economy, the study of currency exchange rates prediction with acceptable accuracy under floating exchange rates environment becomes an important issue. Exchange rates can affect a...
Provided by Chung Yuan Christian University
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Whitepapers
Cloud Adoption Lifecycle
Sep 2012
This paper can help an organization in adopting the cloud platform. It shows various stages to go through, from 'What' (Foresee) to 'What Else' (Reinvigorate), in adoption of cloud based...
Provided by TATA Communications
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing in South African SMMEs
Sep 2012
Cloud computing can offer an excellent value proposition to Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs), for whom cash flow, physical IT assets, and human resources are at a premium. However,...
Provided by University of Canterbury
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Whitepapers
Data Security Model Enhancement In Cloud Environment
Apr 2013
Cloud computing is one of the most emerging technologies which plays an important role in the next generation architecture of IT Enterprise. It has been widely accepted due to its ability to...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Stepping Into the Cloud
Sep 2012
A Cloud is a set of machines and web services that implement cloud computing. Users of a cloud request access from a set of web services that manage a pool of computing resources (i.e., machines,...
Provided by National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
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Whitepapers
Resource Allocation for Antivirus Cloud Appliances
Apr 2013
Malware detection or antivirus software has been recently provided as a service in the cloud. A cloud antivirus provider hosts a number of virtual machines each running the same or different...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Reliability of Computational Experiments on Virtualised Hardware
Oct 2011
Running computational experiments is a task that requires a lot of resources. Especially recent research in Artificial Intelligence is concerned with the behaviour of a large number of...
Provided by University of SRI BATNA
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Whitepapers
Fuzzy Metering-A New Dimension for Cloud Computing
Feb 2013
Cloud computing provides the facility to access shared resources and common infrastructure. It offers services on demand over the network to perform operations that meet changing business needs. A...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Face Recognition Using Mobile Phones and Cloud
Apr 2013
Now-a-day's lifestyle has been changed and any one can easily receive information about everyone in the world. It is very useful for person identification it can be obtained from the mobile device...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Cloud Service Selection From Earth Science Domain
Jan 2013
The promise of the cloud computing paradigm is to deliver computing as a utility available to anyone having an access to the Internet. Users can request on-demand software services hosted inside...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Big Data on the GreenCloud
Jan 2013
Cloud computing currently serves massive data loads across public and private clouds. However this poses a huge demand for energy support. The current system is mainly centered on coal and...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Utilizing Cloud Computing for Modernizing Universities IT
Jan 2013
Cloud in cloud computing refers to the combination of resources such as applications, networking, database, OS and infrastructure at one place and which will be provided by using Internet Media...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
How to Build Cloud Computing Infrastructure
Jan 2013
A type of computing where IT-related capabilities are provided as service to external customer using internet is called Cloud Computing. The use of computers in the cloud can make lots of sense to...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Energy Consumption in Cloud Computing
Jan 2013
The depletion of fossil energy has become one of the major challenges for mankind to sustain the civilization. In addition, overindulgent energy consumption causes over emission of green-house...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing for Agent-Based Traffic Management Systems
Jan 2013
Increased traffic congestion and the associated pollution are forcing everyone in transportation to think about rapid changes in traffic processes and procedures. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
IntelligentWorkload Factoring for a Hybrid Cloud Computing Model
Jul 2009
The authors present an intelligent workload factoring service for enterprise customers to make the best use of public cloud services along with their privately-owned (legacy) data centers. It...
Provided by NEC Laboratories
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Whitepapers
Security and Privacy Issues of Cloud Computing; Solutions and Secure Framework
Apr 2013
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defined cloud computing as a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Optimization of FCFS Based Resource Provisioning Algorithm for Cloud Computing
Apr 2013
In this paper, the authors propose an optimized version of the FCFS scheduling algorithm to address the major challenges of task scheduling in cloud. The incoming tasks are grouped on the basis of...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
An Analysis of Security Issues for Cloud Computing
Apr 2013
Cloud Computing is a flexible, cost-effective, and proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet. However, cloud Computing presents an added level of...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing Architecture: A Survey
Mar 2013
Now-a-day's Cloud computing is a complex and very rapidly evolving and emerging area that affects IT infrastructure, network services, data management and storage resources and applications. And...
Provided by Pund-IT
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Whitepapers
Cloud Database Management System Architecture
Mar 2013
One of the major challenges for the IT companies today is how to manage large growing volumes of data and how to produce a quality driven software product ensuring optimal utilization of resources...
Provided by Jamia Millia Islamia
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Whitepapers
Performance Analysis of Cloud Under Different Virtual Machine Capacity
Apr 2013
Cloud computing is an upcoming, novel, realistic paradigm to host and deliver internet services. Cloud computing helps to plan accurately for provisioning of hardware or software and also...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Webcasts
Pivotal Labs Talks: CloudKit: Hacking the Open Stack With Ruby and Rack
Jun 2009
In this webcast learn about the architecture and construction of CloudKit, an Open Web JSON Appliance. Along the way, see how the emerging Open Stack - including OpenID and OAuth+Discovery - can...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Whitepapers
Research and Realization of Resource Cloud Encapsulation in Cloud Manufacturing
Jan 2013
Resource Cloud Encapsulation (RCE) is one of the key technologies of recourse accessing in Cloud Manufacturing (CM) and the foundation of resource virtualization. Under the analysis of the...
Provided by Guilin University Of Electronic Technology
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Case Studies
Business Connexion: IT Provider Expects to Reduce Storage, Bandwidth Needs With Branch Cache Solution
Sep 2012
Business Connexion is a fast-growing South African IT services firm that likes rising revenues but has a different opinion of its own rising IT costs. The costs of branch-office access to data...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Enhanced Security in Cloud With Multi-Level Intrusion Detection System
Aug 2012
Cloud computing is a new type of service which provides large scale computing resource to each customer. Cloud Computing Systems can be easily threatened by various cyber attacks, because most of...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Whitepapers
Secure Framework in Data Processing for Mobile Cloud Computing
Aug 2012
Generally Mobile Cloud storage enables users to remotely store their data and enjoy the on-demand high quality cloud applications without the burden of local hardware and software management....
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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White Papers
Tactical SOA Governance Processes. AKA, Where to Start?
Jun 2009
In coming up with solutions on the perceived complexity of putting in place an initial governance solution, Dave Berry of Oracle discusses the tactical processes that would be a possible solution...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Sustainable Infrastructure Management
Dec 2008
This White Paper recommends a broadening of levels of service measures to include a fully integrated water quantity, water quality, energy, and other resource management approach and co-creation...
Provided by National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project
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White Papers
SnowFlock: Rapid Virtual Machine Cloning for Cloud Computing
Sep 2010
Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. This paper focuses on the primitive of VM fork...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Understanding Cloud Computing: Experimentation and Capacity Planning
Sep 2009
Cloud computing is a relatively new concept but has its roots in many not-so-new technologies. It is a modality of computing characterized by on demand availability of resources in a dynamic and...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
CLOUD COMPUTING - An Overview
Jan 2010
This paper discusses about an overview on cloud computing. Cloud computing is calculative example where many structures are bonded in unrestricted or restricted networks. This activity of network...
Provided by Torry Harris Business Solutions
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing Services - A Comparison
Jan 2010
This paper aims Cloud Computing services and comparisons conducted amongst Cloud Computing service suppliers. Cloud Computing service is listed as one of the leading technologies till date by...
Provided by Torry Harris Business Solutions
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Webcasts
Microsoft Webcast: Windows Azure Platform (Level 100)
May 2010
Does one know about Windows Azure platform? The Windows Azure platform is a flexible cloud-computing platform that lets you focus on solving business problems, and addressing customer needs. In...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Business Insights Webcast: The Business Value of Online Services (Level 100)
May 2010
Does one want to know about Microsoft online services? If one is maintaining small business, or multinational business, they should know about the Microsoft online services. The Microsoft...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Cloud Computing Made Easy with IBM and Linux
Mar 2010
To know about cloud computing, one can check this webcast, and this tells in a very simple and straight forward way. Industry analyst, Judith Hurwitz, author of the new white paper on Linux and...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Microsoft Webcast: Microsoft Cloud Services Approach (Level 100)
May 2010
Microsoft became involved in cloud computing for almost 15 years ago and it has been providing lot of services such as Hotmail, Windows Update, and Xbox Live ever since. On the other hand, these...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
The New Paradigm of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity for Small and Mid-Size Business
Oct 2009
This paper aims at explaining the new ways of recovery from a disaster during the course of business functioning and its continuity. Most of the big and small organizations experience many...
Provided by Cornick, Garber & Sandler
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White Papers
Cloud-Enabled and Cloud Based Strategies That Reduce Time to Value From Months to Minutes
Jan 2010
This paper aims to discuss the cloud-enabled and strategies based on the clouds that help in reducing the time to value from months to minutes. Shavlik Technologies in the past has successfully...
Provided by Shavlik Technologies
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Webcasts
Resiliency - The Silver Lining to Cloud Computing From IBM
Jan 2010
If one wants to know more on cloud computing, and how they greatly benefit the organization, one needs to watch this webcast, presented by Richard Cocchiara, Distinguished Engineer, CTO for...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Designing a Bullet-Proof Disaster Recovery Architecture for Business-Critical Applications
Jan 2009
While real disaster incidents are rare, the impacts are dramatic. What if the business-critical Application becomes unavailable? How much data would one lose? How much downtime can a person...
Provided by Libelle
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White Papers
Disaster Recovery Best Practices
Feb 2010
This paper refers to Disaster Recovery processes and procedures. It will mention some of the information that is gathered by the Business and the manner by which it is distributed as well as the...
Provided by Houtkin Consulting
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White Papers
The Business Case for Enterprise Disaster Recovery Planning: Calculating the Cost of Downtime
Mar 2009
Over the past 20 to 30 years, businesses of all sizes have steadily grown more dependent on their expanding IT infrastructures to help them automate, manage, and analyze their business operations...
Provided by Iron Mountain
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White Papers
Planning and Implementing Disaster Recovery for DICOM Medical Images
Aug 2009
It's a given - disaster will strike the medical imaging data at some point in time. No matter how good the IT network, some types of disaster cannot be prevented, including such natural...
Provided by InSiteOne
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White Papers
Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations Planning: Keeping Your Organization Operating at Its Best While Preparing for the Worst
Jul 2009
For any government organization or educational institution to fulfill its mission, it's important for data to be continually secure and available. Numerous events over the past few years have led...
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
IT Contingency Planning/Disaster Recovery Planning
Sep 2009
An effective Continuity of Operations (COOP) program is a federal mandate for all government agencies. Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20 (HSPD-20)/National Security Presidential...
Provided by Nova Datacom
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White Papers
Disaster Recovery: Different Approaches to Suit Different Needs
Mar 2010
Today, that picture has changed considerably, in many ways DR can be considered one of the options available within the Business Continuity Planning (BCP) spectrum. This has a lot to do with the...
Provided by Macquarie Telecom
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Whitepapers
Business Continuity Management and the Extended Enterprise
May 2008
Business Continuity is receiving a great deal of attention in the aftermath of recent events, including the London Bombings, the devastating hurricanes of 2005, as well as numerous software...
Provided by Verizon
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White Papers
Optimal Strategic Decision for Disaster Recovery
May 2009
Sustained data availability, accuracy, security, and updating of financial transactions are critical for banking business services. The significance of 24 × 365 hour service availability with...
Provided by Khon Kaen University
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White Papers
The Importance of a Disaster Recovery Contingency Plan
Nov 2007
Every company, and each of its locations, is susceptible to disaster. Disk crashes, power outages, communication loss-are all minor disasters that happen on an occassional basis- and most of them...
Provided by SharePointGeoff
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White Papers
Exploring the Display in Disaster Recovery
Dec 2008
This paper considers how people close to the earthquake in Sichuan in May this year engaged with different kinds of displays immediately afterwards - their home computer, mobile phones, public...
Provided by Lancaster University
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White Papers
Understanding Disaster Recovery
Dec 2007
Disaster Recovery (DR) planning is concerned with preparation for and response when disaster hits. The objective of DR planning is the survival of an organization. Because DR planning is such a...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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White Papers
Strategic Planning for Disaster Recovery With Stochastic Last Mile Distribution
Feb 2010
This paper considers the Single Commodity Allocation Problem (SCAP) for disaster recovery, a fundamental problem faced by all populated areas. SCAPs are complex stochastic optimization problems...
Provided by Brown University
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White Papers
Service Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan
Apr 2009
The Grunigen Medical Library has significant public services that would be compromised during catastrophic failures due to a weather event, a public health threat, or a power outage. The purpose...
Provided by Regents of the University of California
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White Papers
Kahuna: Problem Diagnosis for MapReduce-Based Cloud Computing Environments
Mar 2010
The authors present Kahuna, an approach that aims to diagnose performance problems in Map Reduce systems. Central to Kahuna's approach is the insight on peer-similarity, that nodes behave alike in...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Cloud Computing in Higher Education
Feb 2010
Information technologists - particularly those in higher education - are skeptical about hype. After all, haven't the authors all seen, heard of, tried, used, or continued to use service bureaus,...
Provided by EDUCAUSE
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Case Studies
Cartika Inc. Increases Server Density by 5X With CloudLinux
Jun 2010
With state-of-the-art web hosting facilities and intricate knowledge in several best-of-breed open source and commercial applications, Cartika Inc. specializes in clustered hosting solutions for...
Provided by Cloud Linux
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Whitepapers
IBM Perspective on Cloud Computing: The "Next Big Thing" or "Another Fad"?
Oct 2008
Much is being written and spoken about cloud computing, by IT analysts, industry and business leaders and others. Some believe it is a disruptive trend representing the next stage in the evolution...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Point of View: Security and Cloud Computing
Nov 2009
Cloud computing is a flexible, cost-effective and proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet. Cloud resources can be rapidly deployed and easily...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Technology Adoption Program Cloud Sandbox Internal Pilot
Sep 2009
Cloud computing is a hot topic with technology companies, analysts, and customers. IBM has completed an internal pilot to implement cloud computing. This paper details the pilot experience,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
MediaBeacon Cloud and Security
Apr 2010
Security of a system in the modern internet environment is a top concern and priority for any organization. The term 'Web 2.0" needs to also consider this harsh reality of the need for security...
Provided by MediaBeacon, a BrighTech Company
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White Papers
Five Things to Know About Cloud Computing
Jun 2010
Cloud computing has recently emerged as a hot trend, right alongside virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA). It's so new, in fact, that its precise definition is still as nebulous...
Provided by Advanced Systems
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White Papers
Telecom Companies Profit as Cloud Providers
Jun 2010
Most telecom providers rely on a large computing infrastructure running a diverse set of applications to deliver, manage and bill services. Transforming this infrastructure into clouds can reduce...
Provided by TeamQuest
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White Papers
Defining the Enterprise Cloud
Feb 2010
Cloud services promise to unlock the value of IT, and start to deliver strategic business value. Cloud computing is one of the most talked-about technology trends, with many promised business...
Provided by Cable & Wireless
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Is Memory Bound
May 2010
Cloud Computing is all about elasticity be it for CPU, memory, or storage. But some elements are easier to make elastic than others, and experience shows that memory is by far the most challenging...
Provided by Intalio
