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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Is Your Load Balancer Cloud Ready?
Apr 2010
Cloud computing holds tremendous potential for transforming IT services delivery to significantly reduce cost of ownership and improve overall responsiveness and agility. However, related...
Provided by Citrix
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The Economics of the AWS Cloud Vs. Owned IT Infrastructure
Dec 2009
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers companies of all sizes an elastic, reliable, flexible, low-cost infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. Many companies have already launched...
Provided by Amazon
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Hardware Vs. Amazon EC2 Cloud Performance in the Cloud
Sep 2009
Cloud computing, or IaaS - infrastructure as a service has great potential for bringing the IT industry to the next technology level, making infrastructure and software services more attractive...
Provided by Enteros
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Cloud Computing: Overview and Primer
Nov 2009
Cloud computing is the convergence and evolution of several concepts from virtualization, distributed application design, grid and enterprise IT management to enable a more flexible approach for...
Provided by NARUS
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Hexagrid VxDatacenter Cloud Computing Infrastructure
Apr 2010
Hexagrid's VxDatacenter is a comprehensive suite of technology products and best practices that transforms commodity server infrastructure into a high-availability, high-performance, multi-tenant...
Provided by Hexagrid Computing
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Cloud Quick Start: A Roadmap for Adopting Cloud Computing
Nov 2009
This paper describes how ISVs can build applications that take advantage of SaaS and Cloud technologies. The focus of this paper is on a flexible roadmap for migrating to cloud computing that...
Provided by WaveMaker
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Cloud Computing in Government: The Case and Considerations
Jun 2010
The state of the government information technology (IT) infrastructure and capital investments are, if nothing else, immense. Government departments and agencies - civilian and defense - have a...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Cloud and e-Governance
Mar 2010
This white paper describes the role of Cloud computing standards and architectures in framing a good E-Governance strategy. Governments can realize the potential benefits of Information Technology...
Provided by Imaginea
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Enabling Cloud Computing for Enterprise Web Applications: Leveraging Virtualization to Revolutionize Application Management
Dec 2009
Cloud computing is no longer a nebulous term without tangible benefits. It's a real strategy and a market that's expected to grow to nearly $160 Billion by 2012, according to a recent Merrill...
Provided by Makara
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The Organisation Cloud
Jan 2010
Cloud Computing is maturing fast. More and more applications and data are being built for the cloud, in the cloud, and being moved onto the cloud. No-one can benefit from this more than small...
Provided by SMEStorage
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InMage Cloud Optimized Infrastructure: Raising the Bar for Both End User and Cloud Provider Expectations
May 2010
Cloud computing is fast becoming an accepted way of doing business. While to date it has been used primarily by small and medium businesses, it is now being seriously considered by organizations...
Provided by InMage Systems
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Making Sense of Cloud Computing
Apr 2010
There are plenty of people talking about cloud computing. Indeed, research firm IDC expects cloud computing spending to reach $42 billion worldwide by 2012. There are several simple reasons for...
Provided by Computer Design & Integration
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Must-Haves for Cloud Computing: 7 Checkpoints for Success
Sep 2009
This paper discusses the cloud computing proposition and focuses on 7 key checkpoints for any business adopting a cloud strategy. It also demonstrates real world insight of an already successful...
Provided by Champion Solutions Group
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Cloud Computing: The 'Next Big Thing' in IT: But Is It Right for Your Organization?
Jun 2009
"Cloud computing is emerging as 'the next big thing' in both enterprise and consumer computing," says Jake Smith, who spearheads Intel's enterprise cloud computing team. "It's exciting because it...
Provided by Intel
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Benefits of Cloud Computing
May 2010
Cloud computing brings benefits across three categories: economic, architectural, and strategic. First, it helps reduce IT costs and shift budgets from CAPEX to OPEX. Second, it improves the...
Provided by Intalio
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The CFO's Guide to the "cloud"
Jan 2010
The "Cloud"? It's the hottest buzzword in town right now. Everybody is jumping on the marketing bandwagon and promoting their products and services in the context of this latest IT and business...
Provided by SummaLogic
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Cloud Control
Jul 2008
While "Cloud Computing" is a hot, new marketing term, the cloud is an actual thing owned by a company providing a service. A Cloud is formed by spinning applications out into the network and...
Provided by LTC International
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Immidio White Paper - Things You Always Wanted to Know About Windows Profile Management
Mar 2010
Why are Windows user profiles so critically important for corporate IT environments and how can they be managed efficiently? If one always wanted to have a profound answer to this question, this...
Provided by immidio
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Cloud Computing - Taking IT to Task
May 2010
Much of the discussion around modern IT still revolves around purely technical aspects of a given platform, leaving many business people in the dark as to what true value of a new technical...
Provided by Quocirca
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Into the Clouds: A Look Into What Cloud Computing Is and How It May Affect Data Network Cabling
Jun 2010
Cloud computing is clearly one of the hottest topics today in IT. There are compelling financial justifications for exploring cloud computing in nearly any size organization. From rapid deployment...
Provided by CommScope
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Migrating to the Cloud: A Case Study
Oct 2009
In this paper the authors have captured the strategy, which was adopted for re-engineering application from a shared hosting platform to a popular cloud, based infrastructure and database...
Provided by Hughes Systique
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Windows Azure and Cloud Computing
May 2010
Cloud computing is arguably the next big paradigm shift in the IT industry. Customers can now rent IT infrastructure and services securely via the Internet rather than incurring the capital...
Provided by Active Web Solutions
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NC4 Homeland Security Cloud
Nov 2009
While cloud computing has garnered significant attention in the IT trade press and many corporations have embraced it at least partially, questions of security and privacy of information stored in...
Provided by ESP Group
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Automating Cloud Services: Using Petri Net Modeling Techniques for Quick Deployment and Simplified Maintenance
Nov 2009
The advent of cloud computing services has given IT organizations more options in how they can provide services to their customers. Cloud vendor services, such as Amazon Web Services, can offer...
Provided by Tap In Systems
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Introduction to Cloud Computing
Jul 2009
This whitepaper will attempt to clarify these issues by offering a comprehensive definition of cloud computing, and the business benefits it can bring. In an attempt to gain a competitive edge,...
Provided by ThinkGrid
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Optimal Migration Contracts in Virtual Networks: Pay-as-You-Come Vs Pay-as-You-Go Pricing
Oct 2012
Network virtualization realizes the vision of an Internet where resources offered by different stakeholders are used and shared by multiple coexisting virtual networks. The abstraction introduced...
Provided by Springer Healthcare
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Optimizing Long-Lived CloudNets With Migrations
Aug 2012
This paper attends to the problem of embedding flexibly specified virtual networks connecting cloud resources (e.g., storage or computation) on a given substrate (e.g., a data center, an ISP...
Provided by Telekom Indonesia
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On the Benefit of Collocation in Virtual Network Embeddings
Oct 2012
This paper attends to the problem of optimizing the resource allocation in data centers or cloud networks. The authors' work is motivated by the observation that existing Virtual Network (VNet)...
Provided by Telekom Indonesia
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Dynamic Resource Allocation for Spot Markets in Cloud Computing Environments
Oct 2011
The advent of cloud computing promises to provide computational resources to customers like public utilities such as water and electricity. To deal with dynamically fluctuating resource demands,...
Provided by University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine
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Mitigating the Negative Impact of Preemption on Heterogeneous MapReduce Workloads
Dec 2011
Modern production clusters are often shared by multiple types of jobs with different priorities in order to improve resource utilization. Preemption is a common technique employed by MapReduce...
Provided by University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine
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VDC Planner: Dynamic Migration-Aware Virtual Data Center Embedding for Clouds
Jan 2013
Cloud computing promises to provide computing resources to a large number of service applications in an on-demand manner. Traditionally, cloud providers such as Amazon only provide guaranteed...
Provided by University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine
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Dynamic Service Placement in Geographically Distributed Clouds
Jul 2012
Large-scale online service providers have been increasingly relying on geographically distributed cloud infrastructures for service hosting and delivery. In this paper, a key challenge faced by...
Provided by University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine
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Dynamic Energy-Aware Capacity Provisioning for Cloud Computing Environments
Sep 2012
Data centers have recently gained significant popularity as a cost-effective platform for hosting large-scale service applications. While large data centers enjoy economies of scale by amortizing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Optimal Provisioning for Elastic Service Oriented Virtual Network Request in Cloud Computing
Nov 2012
In the cloud computing paradigm users access applications/services hosted and run on virtual machines in interconnected datacenters. Applications from the same user may need to interact and change...
Provided by University of Electronic Science and Technology
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Appliance of Cloud Computing on e-Learning
Sep 2012
The looking education on the internet, the wonderful web-based education environment has become one of the warm points on researching remote education. Cloud computing is rising rapidly, with...
Provided by IJCSMR
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Event Reducing Mechanism for Cloud Architecture
Apr 2012
Development, implementation and maintenance of Enterprise Application are very difficult; there are several challenges like dependencies of services, response time, linking of implementation and...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Framework for Cloud Computing Platform with a Virtualized Network Infrastructure
Apr 2012
After the development of cloud computing technology and internet, manufacture of cloud computing, which is operated independently by the third party, with high scalability and low energy consumed,...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Traffic Analysis and Shaping of the Cloud Services Over Common Deployment Model Using Cloud Analyst
Apr 2012
Cloud computing gives an enormous service to the customer in order to reduce the cost of investment on infrastructure development. The CSU (Cloud service User) can get all services from CSP (Cloud...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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A Review of Workflow Scheduling in Cloud Computing Environment
Oct 2012
Cloud computing environments facilitate applications by providing virtualized resources that can be provisioned dynamically. The advent of Cloud computing as a new model of service provisioning in...
Provided by Islamic Azad University
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OFDMA Uplink Frequency Offset Estimation with Multi-Access Interference Mitigation
Jul 2012
In this paper, the authors consider the frequency offset estimation for Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OF- DMA) Up Link (UL) transmissions. They first analyze the negative effect...
Provided by Scientific Research
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Rapid and Proactive Approach on Exploration of Vulnerabilities in Cloud Based Operating Systems
Mar 2012
Clouds are a large pool of easily usable and accessible virtualized resources (such as hardware, development platforms and/or services). These assets can be dynamically reconfigured to adjust to a...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Moving Big Data to the Cloud
Jan 2013
Cloud computing, rapidly emerging as a new computation paradigm, provides agile and scalable resource access in a utility-like fashion, especially for the processing of big data. An important open...
Provided by Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Profit-Maximizing Virtual Machine Trading in a Federation of Selfish Clouds
Jan 2013
The emerging federated cloud paradigm advocates sharing of resources among cloud providers, to exploit temporal availability of resources and diversity of operational costs for job serving. While...
Provided by University of Calcutta
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Survey on Scheduling in Cloud Computing System
Nov 2012
The most important factors that affect the performance of the nodes present in a Heterogeneous Computing System (HCS) are the Energy and Completion time. The problem of achieving these two...
Provided by Karunya University
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Survey on Cloud Computing Resource Allocation Models & Methods
Dec 2012
The cloud computing is a very popular field at present which is growing very fast and the futures of the field seems really wide and drastic. To provide quality of service in the cloud environment...
Provided by Karunya University
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A Novel Approach for Energy Aware Resource Allocation Using Hybrid Heuristics in Cloud Computing
Jan 2013
Cloud computing is a major technological advancement in the field of computing and it is very advantageous to the user. It offers various computing utility services to the day to day life but the...
Provided by Karunya University
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Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing
Jan 2013
Cloud Computing has been envisioned as the next generation architecture of IT Enterprise. In contrast to traditional solutions, Cloud Computing moves the application software and databases to the...
Provided by Bhagwant University
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Architecture and Security Functions of Cloud Computing
Jan 2013
The Cloud Computing offers service over internet with dynamically scalable resources. Cloud Computing services provides benefits to the users in terms of cost and ease of use while providing...
Provided by IJCSMR
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Survey: Resource Management Strategies in Cloud Environment
Jan 2013
Cloud computing is an on demand technology as it offers dynamic and supple resource allocation for trustworthy and guaranteed services in pay as-you-use way to public. The speciality of this...
Provided by Karunya University
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Towards Efficient Storage with Multideployment and Multisnapshotting in Cloud Environment: A Survey
Feb 2013
Cloud computing is a new era in computing technology that provides delivered hosted services over the internet. With Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud economics getting increasingly complex...
Provided by Velammal - TIFAC
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A Survey on Enabling Public Auditability and Dynamic Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing
Feb 2013
In Information Technology (IT) Enterprise, Cloud computing is a new era in computing technology, which envisioned on the next generation architecture. In this paper, the authors perform on both...
Provided by Velammal - TIFAC
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Adopting Trusted Third Party Services for Multi-Level Authentication Accessing Cloud
Dec 2012
Cloud computing is an emerging, on-demand and internet-based technology. It provides variety of services over internet such as, software, hardware, data storage and infrastructure. This technology...
Provided by IJCER
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Key Infrastructure Elements for Cloud Computing
Nov 2012
Cloud computing has been the most prevalent technology in the past few years. Clouds consist of a collection of virtualized resources, which include both computational and storage facilities that...
Provided by IJCER
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CloudWatcher: Network Security Monitoring Using OpenFlow in Dynamic Cloud Networks (or: How to Provide Security Monitoring as a Service in Clouds?)
Sep 2012
Cloud computing is becoming a popular paradigm. Many recent new services are based on cloud environments, and a lot of people are using cloud networks. Since many diverse hosts and network...
Provided by Texas A&M International University
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Double Level Priority Based Optimization Algorithm for Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing
Jan 2013
Cloud computing is the fastest new paradigm for delivering on demand services over internet and can be described as internet centric software. In cloud computing there are many tasks that needs to...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Enhancement of Online Course Development Based on a Public Cloud Computing Infrastructure
Jan 2013
There are several websites which offer a user with several courses. But the current Online Course structure had failed because of several reasons. Firstly the user have to pay, if the server is...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Real Time Resource Allocation Methodology and Quality Based Framework in Cloud Computing
Jan 2013
Cloud computing provides resources and services as per user's demand. User can pay for these services as per their use. Many cloud users can request no. of resources or services simultaneously. So...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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A Novel Architecture Style: Diffused Cloud for Virtual Computing Lab
Feb 2012
Using Eucalyptus Systems' private cloud solution, an institute can build Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) that can satisfy the requirements of an institute, but it is assumed that infinite computing...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Query Optimization Issues for Data Retrieval in Cloud Computing
Sep 2012
Cloud data storage redefines the issues targeted on customer's out-sourced data (data that is not stored/retrieved from the customers own servers). In this paper, the authors observed that, from a...
Provided by IJCER
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Optimized Solutions for Mobile Cloud Computing
Aug 2012
As mobile device popularity grows, end-user demands to run heavier applications are equally increasing. Mobile cloud computing integrates the cloud computing into the mobile environment and...
Provided by IJCER
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Whitepapers
Computing Over a Multi Cloud for MTC Applications
Jun 2012
The single cloud will not be more effective for MTC paradigm (Many-Task Computing (MTC) paradigm embraces different types of high-performance applications involving many different tasks, and...
Provided by IJCER
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Architecting Distributed Domain Reducer in Cloud Environment
Feb 2012
Clouds computing is a recent technology used to represent a different way to architect and remotely manage computing resources; it is sharing resources/information as-a - service using internet....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Cloud Computing and ACPI: An Approach to Implement Better Energy Management Towards Green IT
Nov 2012
Cloud computing has proved to be a major breakthrough in terms of green computing. Cloud computing is one of the few technologies which offers the possibility of reducing energy consumption and...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Overview of Attacks on Cloud Computing
Apr 2012
Cloud computing is currently one the most hyped IT innovations. Most IT companies announce to plan or (suddenly) already have IT products according to the cloud computing paradigm. Though cloud...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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Economics of Cloud Computing
Apr 2012
In an attempt to gain a competitive edge, businesses are increasingly looking for new and innovative ways to cut costs while maximizing profits especially now that the world is experiencing...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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Trend Micro Marries Security With Cloud Computing
Jul 2008
Last week in New York City, Trend Micro announced its Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, a new type of security model that marries a lightweight desktop agent to Trend's vast network-based...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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Case Studies
AXA Group Relies on Cloud Services Solution to Efficiently Manage Insurance Claims
Jul 2010
AXA Seguros, part of AXA Group, is an insurance company that strives to deliver superior customer service, which is critical for success in this industry. The company is replacing an inefficient,...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Intuit Expands Development Platform, Brings Cloud Apps to Millions of Small Businesses
Jul 2010
In 2009, Intuit launched the Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) to help developers build software-as-a-service applications that integrate with data in QuickBooks - the popular financial software. In...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Service Provider Transforms Special-Order Process With Cloud-Based Inventory Solution
Jun 2010
GCommerce offers electronic services that improve supply chain efficiency. It wanted to develop an application for the automotive aftermarket, which relies on special-order drop shipment for most...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Electronic Services Firm Reaches Out to New Markets With Cloud-Based Solution
Jun 2010
GXS provides thousands of business customers worldwide with services and products used for business-to-business ecommerce and supply chain activities. The company wanted to add more options to its...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Global News Agency Uses Cloud Computing Platform for New Business Opportunities
Jun 2010
On a typical day, more than half of the world's population sees news that is generated by the Associated Press (AP). Even with this global reach, the AP wanted to explore new market opportunities...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Fiserv Evaluates Cloud Technologies as It Enhances Key Financial Services Offerings
Jul 2010
As a solution provider to more than 16,000 clients worldwide, Fiserv continually strives to enhance its solutions - a broad range of financial services technologies, including digital payment...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Airport Authority Consolidates Infrastructure, Drives Initiatives With Systems Architect
Jul 2010
Aena (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegacion Aerea) has 12,000 employees and provides both the infrastructure and air-traffic control for the more than 47 airports of Spain. In an effort to reduce IT...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Software Developers Offer Quick Processing of Compute-Heavy Tasks With Cloud Services
Jul 2010
InterGrid is an on-demand computing provider that offers cost-effective solutions to complex computing problems. While many customers need support for months at a time, InterGrid saw an...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Mapping Service Increases Performance by 80 Percent With Global Data Center Network
Jun 2010
Microsoft Corporation operates a content delivery network for its Internet-based services. Bing Maps took advantage of the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network, to cache and deliver content at...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Emerson Supports Multiple Business Units With Flexible Documentation and Training Tool
Jul 2010
Emerson, a global technology and engineering company, uses dozens of applications worldwide across its business units, and must ensure a productive workforce that can quickly get up-to-speed on...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Akamai Solutions for Cloud Computing: Accelerate, Scale and Fortify Applications and Platforms Running in the Cloud
Jun 2009
Cloud computing promises more agile, efficient, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions for building, scaling and using applications and services. Inherent to the Cloud, however, are the...
Provided by Akamai Technologies
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Case Studies
Rogers Reduces Cost of Desktop "Communication" and Management With Dell KACE Virtual Appliance
Jun 2010
The complexity of tying 450 remote sites together made several critical IT maintenance tasks difficult to accomplish. Two IT staff members tracked IT investments at each store using manual...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
AlertBoot Saves $200,000 Per Year With Cloud Solution From Dell
Jun 2010
AlertBoot sought to find the perfect infrastructure to host its disk encryption product and free up engineers to focus on research and development, innovation and marketing support. As a solution...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Reaching for the Clouds: Achieving the Business Benefits of Cloud Computing
May 2010
Cloud computing is driving a great deal of IT investment. Concur Technologies embraced BSM for Cloud Computing as they were facing many problems. Theirs first problem was users must have a...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Confidence in the Cloud: Five Ways to Capitalize With Symantec
Nov 2009
Cloud computing is gaining significant traction as a new IT delivery model with potential business and financial benefits. Because cloud computing is still relatively new, organizations are...
Provided by Symantec
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Open Cirrus: A Global Cloud Computing Testbed
Mar 2010
Open Cirrus is a cloud computing testbed that, unlike existing alternatives, federates distributed data centers. It aims to spur innovation in systems and applications research and catalyze...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Cloud Computing Gathers Steam With Mobile Devices
Sep 2009
The outlook for the wireless industry is getting cloudier. Consumers have tapped into cloud computing technology for years: sending messages via Hotmail, uploading photos to Facebook or editing a...
Provided by PhysOrg.com
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Capgemini Brings Cloud Computing and Services Into Reality for the Organization
Mar 2010
Capgemini Group - together with Sogeti (Capgemini Group subsidiary) - today announced the launch of a new suite of services that will help clients realize the business benefits of cloud computing...
Provided by Capgemini
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Sunny Days with Cloud Computing
May 2008
All hearing quite a bit of media chatter about "cloud computing." Sometimes suppliers may use other terms such as "Mesh computing" or "Elastic Cloud Computing." All of these terms really boil down...
Provided by Kusnetzky Group
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Elastic Data and Cloud Computing
Apr 2010
Cloud computing is one of those recklessly abused and overloaded terms that mean different things to different people, eventually serving to confuse more than clarify when used in conversation....
Provided by NorthScale
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Multiscale not Multicore: Efficient Heterogeneous Cloud Computing
Mar 2010
In this paper, authors present a vision of the future of heterogeneous cloud computing. Ours is a cleanslate approach, sweeping away decades of accreted system software. They believe the advent of...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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Activities in Cloud Computing Standardization
Jan 2010
At its meeting in February 2010, ITU-T's Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG) proposed to establish a Focus Group on cloud computing to identify and study the standards needs in...
Provided by ITU
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Cloud Computing: Desktop Virtualization & Thin Client Computing
Feb 2010
'Cloud computing' or 'computing in the clouds' is a metaphor for software and desktop virtualization and is often called thin-client computing (Nastu, 2008). The Cloud is a synonym for the whole...
Provided by Emporia State University
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Amazon Enters the Cloud Computing Business
May 2008
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looked at the clock on the instrument panel of his Segway Human Transporter; it was 7:52AM and he knew he would need a little luck to get to his 8:00AM meeting at Amazon's...
Provided by Stanford University
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Cloud Computing for Financial Institutions
Jul 2009
Ever changing IT world has resulted into plethora of alternate delivery models that have enabled business for organizations. Cloud Computing, as touted by many, is not just an alternative delivery...
Provided by HCL
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NSF Awards Millions For Cloud Computing Research
May 2009
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced it has awarded nearly $5 million in grants to 14 universities through its Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) program to participate in the IBM/Google...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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NASA Nebula Cloud Computing Platform
Apr 2010
Nebula is an open-source cloud computing platform that was developed to provide an easily quantifiable and improved alternative to building additional expensive data centers and to provide an...
Provided by NASA
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Cloud Computing: Whose Law Governs the Cloud? (Part III)
Feb 2010
This paper is the last of a three-part series looking at cloud computing from market and legal perspectives. Part I, published in the June 2009 issue of Cyberspace Lawyer, examined the...
Provided by Thomson Reuters
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Case Study: O2 Ireland
Dec 2009
Telefónica O2 Ireland is a leading provider of mobile services, with 1.7 million customers. O2 Ireland decided to create a new channel to market in order to compete in a competitive industry. They...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Global Managed Services Support Specsavers' International Expansion
May 2009
Specsavers is a dynamic, rapidly-growing company that has been voted the UK's most Trusted Optician for the seventh time in a row in the annual Readers Digest survey .they wanted to Implement...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Considerations And Next Steps
Jun 2010
Cloud computing is an important transition and a paradigm shift in IT services delivery - one that promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Flying Blind in the Cloud: The State of Information Governance
Apr 2010
Despite widespread interest in adopting cloud computing technologies, many organizations are "Flying Blind" with respect to making them secure, potentially putting their operations, intellectual...
Provided by Ponemon Institute
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White Papers
Bridging the IT-Business Alignment Chasm
Oct 2009
The quote above points to the potential for dramatic improvement that can be realized when infrastructure and application teams understand their respective requirements and contributions. Tight...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Cloud Computing and the Economics of Enterprise IT
Jun 2010
Enterprise IT departments need to respond with agility to business needs and demand fluctuations, which existing data center architectures cannot achieve. Private cloud computing - highly scalable...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Intel Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel Xeon Processor-Based Platforms
Apr 2010
Cloud computing offers a path to greater scalability and lower costs for service providers, infrastructure hosting companies, and large enterprises. Establishing an infrastructure that can provide...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
Key Service Management Processes for Cloud Infrastructures
Feb 2010
Cloud computing has significantly impacted how companies deliver and support applications. On the positive side, cloud computing has the potential to both increase end-user productivity and reduce...
Provided by SAVVIS
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White Papers
Privacy in the Clouds
May 2008
The new digital ecosystem will also present complex security and privacy challenges. Fundamentally, it will need to provide flexible, user-friendly ways to authenticate users. Without better...
Provided by Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: Securing Web Resources Using Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control (Level 300)
Aug 2010
In this webcast, the presenter drills into claims-based identity management, exploring in detail the implementation of a web service that authenticates user claims with Windows Azure AppFabric...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric (Level 200)
Aug 2010
Windows Azure AppFabric provides Access Control and an Internet-scale service bus. Access Control can authenticate users and claims, authorizing access to web sites and web services. The Service...
Provided by Microsoft
