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White Papers
Live Database Migration for Elasticity in a Multitenant Database for Cloud Platforms
Jul 2010
The growing popularity of cloud computing as a platform for deploying internet scale applications has seen a large number of web applications being deployed in the cloud. These applications (or...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Silverline: Toward Data Confidentiality in Third-party Clouds
Oct 2010
By offering high availability and elastic access to resources, third-party cloud infrastructures such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure are revolutionizing the way today's businesses operate....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Who's Driving this Cloud? Towards Efficient Migration for Elastic and Autonomic Multitenant Databases
Apr 2010
The success of cloud computing as a platform for deploying web-applications has led to a deluge of applications characterized by small data footprints but unpredictable access patterns. An...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
ElasTraS: An Elastic, Scalable, and Self Managing Transactional Database for the Cloud
Mar 2010
Cloud computing has emerged as a pervasive platform for deploying scalable and highly available Internet applications. To facilitate the migration of data-driven applications to the cloud:...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Skydiving Through the Clouds
Feb 2011
To many people, skydiving is for daredevils, potentially risky, and very scary at first. To get over the initial anxiety many people shut their eyes and jump blindly out the doors, at which point...
Provided by GoGrid
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White Papers
Creating a High-Availability, Scalable Web-Server System Within the Digiweb Cloud
Dec 2010
Cloud computing is all the rage. "It's become the phrase du jour," says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a...
Provided by Digiweb
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White Papers
Moving From Legacy Systems to Cloud Computing
Mar 2011
Companies must internally address any technology, business process, or security concerns they may have before considering a migration to cloud computing. Once they have made that decision, they...
Provided by TATA Communications
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White Papers
Dynamic Outsourcing Mobile Computation to the Cloud
Mar 2011
Mobile devices are becoming the universal interface to online services and cloud computing applications. Since mobile phones have limited computing power and battery life, there is a potential to...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
OPEN: Passive Network Performance Estimation for Data-Intensive Applications
Nov 2008
Distributed computing applications are increasingly utilizing distributed data sources. However, the unpredictable cost of data access in large-scale computing infrastructures can lead to severe...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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Webcasts
RTO Software PinPoint: Performance Management Monitoring
May 2008
In this webcast, the presenters say about RTO Software's PinPoint that provides real-time performance and critical-path monitoring, root-cause analysis and end-to-end visibility of applications....
Provided by DABCC.com
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Podcasts
3PAR Helps Smarsh Harness the Scalability of the Cloud
Jun 2010
In this podcast, the speaker reveals that 3PAR announced today that Smarsh, the managed service leader in secure, innovative, and reliable email archiving solutions, has deployed 3PAR Utility...
Provided by DABCC.com
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White Papers
Data Centric Peer-to-Peer Communication in Power Grids
Feb 2009
The authors study the use of peer-to-peer based declarative data management to enable efficient monitoring and control of power transmission and distribution networks. They propose methods and an...
Provided by Technische Universitat Clausthal
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White Papers
Plan Effective Lessons
Dec 2007
All teachers use lesson plans in one form or another. Some teachers merely organize the lesson of the day in their heads. Others jot down a few bullet points about what they plan to do each day....
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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White Papers
Create Tests, Rubrics, and More to Assess Student Performance
Dec 2007
One of the most important jobs a teacher has is measuring the knowledge and understanding of his or her students. Teachers can determine whether a student has grasped the concepts of a lesson in a...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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White Papers
Getting to Know You: Activities for Young Students
Dec 2007
Teaching is all about borrowing ideas, and the author would give credit if he or she remembered where or from whom they originally came (some ideas actually are the authors), but now these...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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White Papers
Make Employees Feel Valued
Dec 2007
How one manages the staff and handle their conflicts and goals directly influences the company climate. That weather report - fair or foul - is broadcast endlessly to customers, vendors,...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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White Papers
Promote Self-Management in Your Organization
Dec 2007
Developing a work environment and supervisory culture that promotes self-management helps employees meet new challenges and take responsibility for their own professional development....
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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White Papers
Conduct Effective Performance Reviews as an Administrative Assistant
Dec 2007
Oftentimes, administrative assistants are responsible for supervising employees in today's workplace. Supervised employees can include interns, temporary workers, or full-time staff....
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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White Papers
Manage Work Forces During the Labor Shortage
Dec 2007
Recent studies warn that the U.S. economy might soon experience widespread job vacancies that can't be filled due to a shortfall of workers. Do these arguments have merit, and if so, what are the...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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White Papers
Recruiting Specialists: Tips for Successfully Marketing Your Open Positions
Dec 2007
As a hiring manager, one may have recently been given the okay to hire new people for the team. What steps will one take to ensure that the job descriptions stand out amid all the other similar...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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White Papers
Flexible and Efficient Resource Location in Large-Scale Systems
Oct 2010
Inherent to the cloud computing paradigm is the ability to adjust or deploy, on demand, services to face dynamic changes on the workload. Therefore, one needs an infrastructure to keep track of...
Provided by INESC-ID
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White Papers
The Complete Cloud
May 2011
Creating and preserving cloud infrastructure savings, security and service quality requires active engagement by clients and their qualified cloud providers to prevent erosion of the benefits that...
Provided by CGI Group
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White Papers
Making it Happen: Responding to Federal Initiatives to Speed and Simplify Cloud Adoption
Feb 2011
This issue brief is intended for federal executives who seek to use cloud IT infrastructure services (such as web hosting) to better achieve agency mission and business goals while reducing spend....
Provided by CGI
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White Papers
Seeking Sustainable Computing: The Role of Cloud Computing
Dec 2010
Sustainability becomes a common norm in recent years due to the discovery of uncertainty in various aspects of human life, society, and living environment. This paper intends to examine the...
Provided by Illinois State University
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White Papers
Platforms for Building and Deploying Applications for Cloud Computing
May 2011
Cloud computing is rapidly emerging as a new paradigm for delivering IT services as utility-oriented services on subscription basis. The rapid development of applications and their deployment in...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
An Efficient Algorithm for the Nearest Neighbourhood Search for Point Clouds
Sep 2011
This paper presents a high-performance method for the k-nearest neighbourhood search. Starting from a point cloud, first the method carries out the space division by the typical cubic grid...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Implementing and Managing Framework for PaaS in Cloud Computing
Sep 2011
With the rapid development of Internet and Cloud computing, there are more and more network resources. Sharing, management and on-demand allocation of network resources are particularly important...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
On The Privacy Of Cloud Computing
Jan 2011
Cloud computing is a model for providing on-demand access to computing service via the Internet. In this instance, the Internet is the transport mechanism between a client and a server located...
Provided by Savannah State University
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Development Strengthens Delegated Information Processing as the New Information-Communications Ecosystem
Jul 2011
Information-communications systems, consisting of three core categories: information (content), communication mechanism (currently dominated by Internet), and services (data/information...
Provided by IBIMA Publishing
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White Papers
Using Cloud Computing in Higher Education: A Strategy to Improve Agility in the Current Financial Crisis
Jul 2011
In the current financial crisis and being challenged by growing needs, universities are facing problems in providing necessary Information Technology (IT) support for educational, research and...
Provided by Academy of Economic Studies
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White Papers
Identity Management Challenges for Intercloud Applications
Apr 2011
Intercloud notion is gaining a lot of attention lately from both enterprise and academia, not only because of its benefits and expected results but also due to the challenges that it introduces...
Provided by Malaga University
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: A New Phase in Information Technology Management
Mar 2011
The use of cloud computing is becoming widespread, but systematic study of its managerial implications is lacking. This paper examines cloud computing in the context of other major changes in...
Provided by University of Baltimore
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White Papers
Assessing the Relationships Among Cloud Adoption, Strategic Alignment and It Effectiveness
Jul 2011
Against the backdrop of new economic realities, one of the larger forces that is affecting businesses worldwide is cloud computing, whose benefits include agility, time to market, time to...
Provided by Capella University
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White Papers
Moving From Grid to Cloud Computing: The Challenges in an Existing Computational Grid Setup
Dec 2010
Today's scientific research is much based on large-scale numerical calculations, data analysis and collaboration at various levels. In an R&D organization there always exist requirements for more...
Provided by Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: New Business Opportunities for Telecommunications Companies?
Sep 2010
Cloud computing has recently shifted into the center of attention of Telecommunications Companies. Deutsche Telekom, for example, just announced the importance of cloud computing as one of their...
Provided by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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White Papers
An Economic Analysis of Online Streaming: How the Music Industry Can Generate Revenues From Cloud Computing
Jun 2011
Music can be characterized as information good and is therefore amenable to digitalization and copying through online sharing networks. Chances and risks arise from digitalization for the...
Provided by Centre for European Economic Research
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White Papers
Foundations of Blueprint for Cloud-Based Service Engineering
Jun 2011
Current cloud-based service offerings are often provided as one-size-fits-all solution and give little or no room for customization. This limits the ability for application developers to pick and...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Software Engineering Issues From the Cloud Application Perspective
Dec 2010
Any IT application needs a model of computation, a model of storage, and a model of communication. This job is undoubtedly taken care of by Software engineering. This keynote paper: presents a...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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White Papers
Consolidation Through Virtualisation With Sun x64 Servers
May 2008
IT organisations must complete an almost impossible juggling act. Delivering more services at less cost. Increasing performance, yet managing fewer systems. Buying the right server for the job,...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Proven Virtualisation Scalability With The Sun Fire X4600 Server
May 2008
This white paper looks at how organisation can consolidate a number of applications from a number of under-utilised servers and ease the space, power, and cooling crunch. Consolidate from many to...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Architecting Software as a Service for the Enterprise
Oct 2009
As part of the cloud computing strategy, Intel IT has been opportunistically taking advantage of external offerings of Software As A Service (SaaS) applications. To prepare for broader SaaS...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Retaining Your IT Staff
Nov 2009
A difficult economy has not reversed the demand for talented IT professionals. It might be more competitive than three years ago, but IT workers with a strong skills base and the experience to...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Webcasts
Public Vs. Private Cloud: Which Version of Cloud Computing Will You Adopt?
Jan 2010
Gartner forecasts that by 2012, industrialized utility and cloud-based services will account for at least 50 percent of the new demand for managed IT infrastructure services. If one is looking to...
Provided by Unisys
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Webcasts
Private Cloud and the Impact on the Enterprise
Jan 2010
Today's common IT infrastructures have become complex and uncompromising. With the recent adoption of virtualization and new business models such as cloud computing in its various forms, CIOs are...
Provided by Unisys
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Webcasts
What's New in JBoss SOA Platform 5.0
Apr 2010
Red Hat recently released its new JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform v5. This release adds significant new capabilities improving developer and deployment productivity in JBoss Developer Studio v3, as...
Provided by Red Hat
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Webcasts
Have You Checked Your Basement Lately Enterprise Modernization of Legacy Solaris Systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Industry Standard Hardware
Jun 2010
Large enterprises have large basements. Their basement is overflowing with existing hardware, software, and applications. The more technology that comes out each year, the more everyone is buying...
Provided by Red Hat
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Webcasts
Maximize the Value of Cloud and On-Premise Applications and Services
Nov 2010
Enterprises are placing an increasing number of their applications and business services in cloud computing deployments to take advantage of the flexibility and scalability of the cloud model....
Provided by Red Hat
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Webcasts
Companies Look to the Clouds for Collaboration
Dec 2010
Business leaders and IT departments are under pressure to provide innovative tools and capabilities to users they serve during a time of shrinking budgets and limited resources. Cloud-based...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Podcasts
Transforming Your Communications and Productivity With Office 365
Nov 2010
Microsoft Office 365 delivers the power of cloud productivity to businesses of all sizes, helping to save time, money and free up valued resources. Office 365 combines the familiar Office desktop...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
Microsoft Online Services: The New Wave of Cloud Services
Sep 2010
Microsoft Online Services are undergoing a significant and rapid transformation that is bringing richer and more powerful capabilities to these cloud offerings. These hosted cloud services, namely...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
Security and Reliability in the Cloud - A Microsoft Online Services Perspective
Dec 2009
Interested in learning more about the security and reliability of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite and Microsoft cloud computing? This podcast speaks will answer above question and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Business Insights Webcast: Server and Cloud Infrastructure - System Center, Azure, and the Private Cloud (Level 100)
Nov 2010
The IT landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation with the introduction of the cloud to the corporate environment. If they are seeking to move the infrastructure, software, or platform to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
Why Microsoft Has the Best Cloud Computing Story
Apr 2010
Cloud is a much-used IT industry term that means different things to different people. Does it mean Web-based applications, Web-hosted services, centralized server farms and data centers, or...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
The Business Value of Online Services
Apr 2010
A Microsoft cloud service is a new model for business computing. It offers greater financial flexibility in how to fund IT resources. It's like turning on a light switch: An organization doesn't...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
Why Microsoft Has the Leading Cloud Solutions
May 2010
This podcast 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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Podcasts
Microsoft Cloud Services Approach
May 2010
Microsoft became involved in cloud computing 15 years ago and has been offering services such as Hotmail, Windows Update, and Xbox Live ever since. However, these types of services weren't called...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
Windows Azure Platform
May 2010
The Windows Azure platform is the Microsoft Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that includes compute and non-relational storage via Windows Azure, relational storage via SQL AzureService bus,...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
Cloud Computing and Interoperability
Jun 2010
When one considers a cloud computing solution, interoperability is a critical success factor to ensure that existing staff skills, intellectual property, and investments in tools and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Google Apps Education Edition: Communication, Collaboration, and Security in the Cloud
Jun 2009
Collaboration and communication are more than life skills - they are essential abilities that the students will need to succeed in their professional lives. Google offers a range of online tools...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
Supporting Emergency-Response by Retasking Network Infrastructures
Nov 2007
Recent events have demonstrated the susceptibility of conventional network infrastructures to both man-made and natural disasters. The attacks on September 11th, 2001 disrupted many communication...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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White Papers
ACS' ITO Perspective on Cloud Computing: "Is it Ready"?
Dec 2008
This paper introduces and describes the benefits of PeopleSoft virtualization using the new Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology and how to effectively implement this new technology into a...
Provided by ACS
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White Papers
Cloud Computing With Control
Sep 2010
With virtualisation now firmly entrenched on the IT agenda, the focus is very much on how fast, and how far, the enterprise will take the technology, and conversely how fast and how far the...
Provided by InTechnology
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White Papers
Private Cloud Computing
Sep 2010
In the sixty-plus years since business computing began, there have been two major trends: first there was mainframe computing, followed by client-server. Now there is a new paradigm. Cloud...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Cloud Computing. The Future Brought to You by Breathable Technology.
Oct 2009
Online retailer Amazon is considered to have pioneered cloud computing, coining the term Elastic Compute Cloud in July 2002 for a new Web service that the company positioned as a tool for other...
Provided by T-Systems
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White Papers
Capturing the Value of Cloud Computing - How Enterprises can Chart their Course to the Next Level
Nov 2009
Some of the biggest and most powerful IT players - Microsoft, Google, IBM, SAP, and Wipro technologies are jostling for positions in the emerging cloud-computing market. Countless start-ups, many...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Making the Cloud Secure for Your Enterprise
Apr 2010
Security issues associated with third-party cloud environments continue to prevent organizations from taking advantage of the cost savings and flexibility that the cloud can offer. Today, using a...
Provided by CloudSwitch
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White Papers
Managing the "Cloud" in Cloud Computing With Route Analytics
Jun 2009
The latest evolution in enterprise IT outsourcing, cloud computing leverages the ubiquity of the Internet, the flexibility of server virtualization, and the massive scale of today's data centers...
Provided by Packet Design
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White Papers
Cloud Computing for the Corporate Data Center
Feb 2008
An Internet arms race is being waged between the leading consumer Web brands (e.g. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo) to deliver Internet-based applications on a global scale. The participants are...
Provided by DataSynapse
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Commoditized: Part I - Clearing the Air
Mar 2010
There are certainly hundreds of cloud computing definitions in the wild today. The semantics are as wispy as cirrus, as the term often means different things to different people. The leading...
Provided by Cutter Consortium
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White Papers
Cloud Computing for Financial Markets
Feb 2009
Enterprise IT is changing in the way that applications, information, content, compute, storage, and network is deployed and consumed. The move is toward the service delivery of IT through cloud...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Oracle White Paper in Enterprise Architecture - Architecture Strategies for Cloud Computing
Aug 2010
When developing the architectural vision, an enterprise architect should bear in mind - the characteristics of cloud computing, the organizational and cultural issues, compatibility with the...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Building Customer Trust in Cloud Computing With Transparent Security
Nov 2009
Potential users of cloud services often fear that cloud providers' governance is not yet mature enough to consistently and reliably protect their data. As the trend toward cloud-based services...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Pinnacle of IT Infrastructure Democratization
Jan 2009
Cloud Computing, in brief referring to the emergent concept of flexible access to resources on a tap, with pay-as-you-go model, over the all-pervasive network, stirs an uncanny familiarity to the...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Distributed Internet Computing for IT and Scientific Research
Oct 2009
One vision of 21st century computing is that users will access Internet services over lightweight portable devices rather than through some descendant of the traditional desktop PC. Because users...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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White Papers
Cloud Computing
Jan 2009
Cloud computing - a relatively recent term, defines the paths ahead in computer science world. Being built on decades of research it utilizes all recent achievements in virtualization, distributed...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
Computing Building a Framework for Successful Transition
Oct 2009
Cloud computing, with the revolutionary promise of computing as a utility, has the potential to transform how IT services are delivered and managed. Yet, despite its great promise, even the most...
Provided by GTSI
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White Papers
Doing the Business in the Cloud
Feb 2010
There are a plethora of cloud-based services on offer: some mature (think of cloud-based backup storage) and others not; some designed from the ground up as enterprise solutions, others evolved...
Provided by CSC
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White Papers
Computing Clouds on the Horizon - Benefits and Risks from the User's Perspective
Jun 2010
The term 'cloud computing' has shot into prominence recently, driven, as most buzzphrases are, by marketing interests. The term encompasses multiple, pre-existing services, but an analysis of the...
Provided by Xamax Consultancy
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White Papers
Security of Cloud Computing Users - A Study of Practitioners in the US & Europe
May 2010
Cloud computing is being heralded as an important trend in information technology throughout the world. Benefits for business and IT include reducing costs and increasing productivity. The...
Provided by Ponemon Institute
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Risks and National Security Keeping Pace With Expanding Technology
Sep 2010
Depending upon where the actual data exists, privacy concerns change, as does the regulatory framework governing privacy. Simple things like generating keys depend on where the data is. While...
Provided by Homeland Security Policy Institute
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White Papers
Data Centric Peer-to-Peer Communication in Power Grids
Feb 2009
The authors study the use of peer-to-peer based declarative data management to enable efficient monitoring and control of power transmission and distribution networks. They propose methods and an...
Provided by Technische Universitat Clausthal
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White Papers
Plan Effective Lessons
Dec 2007
All teachers use lesson plans in one form or another. Some teachers merely organize the lesson of the day in their heads. Others jot down a few bullet points about what they plan to do each day....
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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White Papers
Create Tests, Rubrics, and More to Assess Student Performance
Dec 2007
One of the most important jobs a teacher has is measuring the knowledge and understanding of his or her students. Teachers can determine whether a student has grasped the concepts of a lesson in a...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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White Papers
Getting to Know You: Activities for Young Students
Dec 2007
Teaching is all about borrowing ideas, and the author would give credit if he or she remembered where or from whom they originally came (some ideas actually are the authors), but now these...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
-
White Papers
Make Employees Feel Valued
Dec 2007
How one manages the staff and handle their conflicts and goals directly influences the company climate. That weather report - fair or foul - is broadcast endlessly to customers, vendors,...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
-
White Papers
Promote Self-Management in Your Organization
Dec 2007
Developing a work environment and supervisory culture that promotes self-management helps employees meet new challenges and take responsibility for their own professional development....
Provided by Microsoft Tips
-
White Papers
Conduct Effective Performance Reviews as an Administrative Assistant
Dec 2007
Oftentimes, administrative assistants are responsible for supervising employees in today's workplace. Supervised employees can include interns, temporary workers, or full-time staff....
Provided by Microsoft Tips
-
White Papers
Manage Work Forces During the Labor Shortage
Dec 2007
Recent studies warn that the U.S. economy might soon experience widespread job vacancies that can't be filled due to a shortfall of workers. Do these arguments have merit, and if so, what are the...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
-
White Papers
Recruiting Specialists: Tips for Successfully Marketing Your Open Positions
Dec 2007
As a hiring manager, one may have recently been given the okay to hire new people for the team. What steps will one take to ensure that the job descriptions stand out amid all the other similar...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
-
White Papers
Flexible and Efficient Resource Location in Large-Scale Systems
Oct 2010
Inherent to the cloud computing paradigm is the ability to adjust or deploy, on demand, services to face dynamic changes on the workload. Therefore, one needs an infrastructure to keep track of...
Provided by INESC-ID
-
White Papers
The Complete Cloud
May 2011
Creating and preserving cloud infrastructure savings, security and service quality requires active engagement by clients and their qualified cloud providers to prevent erosion of the benefits that...
Provided by CGI Group
-
White Papers
Making it Happen: Responding to Federal Initiatives to Speed and Simplify Cloud Adoption
Feb 2011
This issue brief is intended for federal executives who seek to use cloud IT infrastructure services (such as web hosting) to better achieve agency mission and business goals while reducing spend....
Provided by CGI
-
White Papers
Seeking Sustainable Computing: The Role of Cloud Computing
Dec 2010
Sustainability becomes a common norm in recent years due to the discovery of uncertainty in various aspects of human life, society, and living environment. This paper intends to examine the...
Provided by Illinois State University
-
White Papers
Platforms for Building and Deploying Applications for Cloud Computing
May 2011
Cloud computing is rapidly emerging as a new paradigm for delivering IT services as utility-oriented services on subscription basis. The rapid development of applications and their deployment in...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
An Efficient Algorithm for the Nearest Neighbourhood Search for Point Clouds
Sep 2011
This paper presents a high-performance method for the k-nearest neighbourhood search. Starting from a point cloud, first the method carries out the space division by the typical cubic grid...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
-
White Papers
Implementing and Managing Framework for PaaS in Cloud Computing
Sep 2011
With the rapid development of Internet and Cloud computing, there are more and more network resources. Sharing, management and on-demand allocation of network resources are particularly important...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
-
White Papers
On The Privacy Of Cloud Computing
Jan 2011
Cloud computing is a model for providing on-demand access to computing service via the Internet. In this instance, the Internet is the transport mechanism between a client and a server located...
Provided by Savannah State University
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing Development Strengthens Delegated Information Processing as the New Information-Communications Ecosystem
Jul 2011
Information-communications systems, consisting of three core categories: information (content), communication mechanism (currently dominated by Internet), and services (data/information...
Provided by IBIMA Publishing
-
White Papers
Using Cloud Computing in Higher Education: A Strategy to Improve Agility in the Current Financial Crisis
Jul 2011
In the current financial crisis and being challenged by growing needs, universities are facing problems in providing necessary Information Technology (IT) support for educational, research and...
Provided by Academy of Economic Studies
-
White Papers
Identity Management Challenges for Intercloud Applications
Apr 2011
Intercloud notion is gaining a lot of attention lately from both enterprise and academia, not only because of its benefits and expected results but also due to the challenges that it introduces...
Provided by Malaga University
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing: A New Phase in Information Technology Management
Mar 2011
The use of cloud computing is becoming widespread, but systematic study of its managerial implications is lacking. This paper examines cloud computing in the context of other major changes in...
Provided by University of Baltimore
-
White Papers
Assessing the Relationships Among Cloud Adoption, Strategic Alignment and It Effectiveness
Jul 2011
Against the backdrop of new economic realities, one of the larger forces that is affecting businesses worldwide is cloud computing, whose benefits include agility, time to market, time to...
Provided by Capella University
-
White Papers
Moving From Grid to Cloud Computing: The Challenges in an Existing Computational Grid Setup
Dec 2010
Today's scientific research is much based on large-scale numerical calculations, data analysis and collaboration at various levels. In an R&D organization there always exist requirements for more...
Provided by Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: New Business Opportunities for Telecommunications Companies?
Sep 2010
Cloud computing has recently shifted into the center of attention of Telecommunications Companies. Deutsche Telekom, for example, just announced the importance of cloud computing as one of their...
Provided by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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White Papers
An Economic Analysis of Online Streaming: How the Music Industry Can Generate Revenues From Cloud Computing
Jun 2011
Music can be characterized as information good and is therefore amenable to digitalization and copying through online sharing networks. Chances and risks arise from digitalization for the...
Provided by Centre for European Economic Research
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White Papers
Foundations of Blueprint for Cloud-Based Service Engineering
Jun 2011
Current cloud-based service offerings are often provided as one-size-fits-all solution and give little or no room for customization. This limits the ability for application developers to pick and...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Software Engineering Issues From the Cloud Application Perspective
Dec 2010
Any IT application needs a model of computation, a model of storage, and a model of communication. This job is undoubtedly taken care of by Software engineering. This keynote paper: presents a...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
-
White Papers
Consolidation Through Virtualisation With Sun x64 Servers
May 2008
IT organisations must complete an almost impossible juggling act. Delivering more services at less cost. Increasing performance, yet managing fewer systems. Buying the right server for the job,...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
-
White Papers
Proven Virtualisation Scalability With The Sun Fire X4600 Server
May 2008
This white paper looks at how organisation can consolidate a number of applications from a number of under-utilised servers and ease the space, power, and cooling crunch. Consolidate from many to...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Server Consolidation Using Quad-Core Processors
May 2008
This resource looks at how Intel IT used the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series to consolidate test workloads from eight physical machines into virtual machines (VMs) running on a single...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
SUN FIRE X4150 AND X4450 : SERVER ARCHITECTURE : Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology
May 2008
In recent years, emerging applications and expanding Web services have fuelled an escalating demand for mission-critical IT resources, with increasing numbers of collaborative business initiatives...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
THE SUN FIRE X4600 M2 SERVER AND PROVEN VIRTUALISATION SCALABILITY
May 2008
Nearly every Information Technology organisation is using consolidation, or is considering using consolidation, as a way to reduce both capital and operating costs. IT organisations with a number...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
The SunFire X4500: Addressing New Workloads with a New Blend of Server and Storage
May 2008
This IDC report shows how the digital world has become more varied over time, and the types of data that must be stored as part of regulatory and compliance standards encompass more formats than...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Enabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server VirtualisationEnabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server Virtualisation
May 2008
The rapid spread of software-based server virtualisation on x86 platforms over the past few years is making virtualisation an important solution for hardware resource sharing and server...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Creating an Energy-Efficient Datacenter : Consolidate with Sun technology
May 2008
Consolidation and hardware technology refreshes enable datacenters to provide more applications and services in less space and at less cost.This in-depth report shows how by moving to...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Accurately Measuring Datacenter Power Efficiency Timely and accurate measurements with SunSM Eco Services
May 2008
Corporate attention spans can be short, and the best way to get attention and motivate efficiency improvements is to be able to generate accurate, up-to-date power statistics on a moment's...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Sun Achieves >80% reduction in space, power and cooling costs by Consolidating European Datacenters
May 2008
This compelling case study looks at how, in November of 2005, Sun's IT Operations (ITOPS) group faced lease expirations that drove the consolidation of multiple European datacenters into a single...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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In a global economy it pays to protect your greatest asset
May 2008
Datacenters are a drain on resources - yours and the planet's. After al, the average datacenter's power consumption doubled between 2000 and 2005. Powering the network consumes 100 billion...
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Quad-Core Processors Bring Higher Performance and Lower Cost to Mainstream Computing
May 2008
This in-depth study shows how Intel has created a market-leading processor family built on quad-core technology with a first-to-market advantage. Leading hardware and software vendors have...
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The Role of Rugged Mobile Computing in Overhaul, Service & Maintenance Operations
Feb 2008
This paper explores the strategic, operational, and technological issues that are addressed by rugged mobile solutions for maintenance and service managers. The overhaul, maintenance, and service...
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