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Autonomic Virtual Resource Management for Service Hosting Platforms
Apr 2010
This paper addresses the problem of autonomic virtual resource management for hosting service platforms with a two-level architecture which isolates application-specific functions from a generic...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Towards Autonomic Workload Provisioning for Enterprise Grids and Clouds
Jan 2010
This paper explores autonomic approaches for optimizing provisioning for heterogeneous workloads on enterprise Grids and clouds. Specifically, this paper presents a decentralized, robust online...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Model-Based Self-Adaptive Resource Allocation in Virtualized Environments
May 2011
The adoption of virtualization and Cloud Computing technologies promises a number of benefits such as increased flexibility, better energy efficiency and lower operating costs for IT systems....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Monitoring Service Clouds in the Future Internet
Mar 2010
Service clouds are a key emerging feature of the Future Internet which will provide a platform to execute virtualized services. To effectively operate a service cloud there needs to be a...
Provided by IOS Press
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White Papers
EC2 Performance Analysis for Resource Provisioning of Service-Oriented Applications
Oct 2009
Cloud computing is receiving increasingly attention as it provides infinite resource capacity and "Pay-as-you-go" resource usage pattern to hosted applications. To maintain its SLA targets,...
Provided by Tsinghua University
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White Papers
Experimental Assessment of Routing for Grid and Cloud
Jul 2011
Grid and Cloud computing technologies are being applied as an affordable method to cluster computational power together. These structures aim to support service applications by grouping devices...
Provided by Federal University of Santa Catarina
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White Papers
FCM: An Architecture for Integrating IaaS Cloud Systems
Jun 2011
Cloud Computing builds on the latest achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid Computing, Service-oriented computing, business processes and virtualization. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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White Papers
Towards Characterizing Cloud Backend Workloads: Insights From Google Compute Clusters
Feb 2010
The advent of cloud computing promises highly available, efficient, and flexible computing services for applications such as web search, email, voice over IP, and web search alerts. One experience...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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White Papers
SLA-Aware Virtual Resource Management for Cloud Infrastructures
Apr 2010
Cloud platforms host several independent applications on a shared resource pool with the ability to allocate computing power to applications on a per-demand basis. The use of server virtualization...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
CometCloud: An Autonomic Cloud Engine
Aug 2010
Clouds typically have highly dynamic demands for resources with highly heterogeneous and dynamic workloads. For example, the workloads associated with the application can be quite dynamic, both in...
Provided by Rutgers
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White Papers
Distributed Computing in the 21st Century: Some Aspects of Cloud Computing
May 2011
The Cloud Computing paradigm has gained considerable attention owing to the notable commercial success of many Cloud service providers. Typically, a Cloud Computing service provides its customers...
Provided by University of Bologna
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White Papers
Software Architecture Definition for On-Demand Cloud Provisioning
Sep 2010
Cloud computing is a promising paradigm for the provisioning of IT services. Cloud computing infrastructures, such as those offered by the RESERVOIR project, aim to facilitate the deployment,...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Elastic Service Management in Computational Clouds
Apr 2010
Cloud computing, is rapidly changing the landscape of traditional IT service provisioning. It presents service providers with the potential to significantly reduce initial capital investment into...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
RESERVOIR - When One Cloud Is Not Enough
Jan 2011
As cloud computing becomes more predominant, the problem of scalability has become critical for cloud computing providers. The cloud paradigm is attractive because it offers a dramatic reduction...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Going Back and Forth: Efficient Multideployment and Multisnapshotting on Clouds
Mar 2011
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing has revolutionized the way one thinks of acquiring resources by introducing a simple change: allowing users to lease computational resources from...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
BlobCR: Efficient Checkpoint-Restart for HPC Applications on IaaS Clouds Using Virtual Disk Image Snapshots
Aug 2011
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing is gaining significant interest in industry and academia as an alternative platform for running scientific applications. Given the dynamic nature...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Energy-Aware Ant Colony Based Workload Placement in Clouds
May 2011
With cloud computing becoming ubiquitous, cloud providers are starting to deploy increasing numbers of energy hungry data centers. Energy conservation then becomes essential, in order to decrease...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Optimizing Multi-Deployment on Clouds by Means of Self-Adaptive Prefetching
May 2011
With Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud economics getting increasingly complex and dynamic, resource costs can vary greatly over short periods of time. Therefore, a critical issue is the...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
BlobSeer: Next Generation Data Management for Large Scale Infrastructures
Aug 2010
As data volumes increase at a high speed in more and more application fields of science, engineering, information services, etc., the challenges posed by data-intensive computing gain an...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Building Dynamic Computing Infrastructures Over Distributed Clouds
May 2011
The emergence of cloud computing infrastructures brings new ways to build and manage computing systems, with the flexibility offered by virtualization technologies. This paper focuses on two...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Combining Grid and Cloud Resources by Use of Middleware for SPMD Applications
Feb 2011
Distributed computing environments have evolved from in-house clusters to Grids and now Cloud platforms. The authors, as others, provide HPC benchmarks results over Amazon EC2 that show a lower...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Forecasting for Cloud Computing On-Demand Resources Based on Pattern Matching
Jul 2010
The Cloud phenomenon brings along the cost-saving benefit of dynamic scaling. Knowledge in advance is necessary as the virtual resources that Cloud computing uses have a setup time that is not...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Decision Model for Cloud Computing Under SLA Constraints
Apr 2010
With the recent introduction of Spot Instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), users can bid for resources and thus control the balance of reliability versus monetary costs. A critical...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
ROCS: A Remotely Provisioned OSGi Framework for Ambient Systems
Nov 2009
One of the challenges of ambient systems lies in providing all the available services of the environment to the ambient devices, even if they do not physically host those services. Although this...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Reducing Costs of Spot Instances Via Checkpointing in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Mar 2010
Recently introduced spot instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offer lower resource costs in exchange for reduced reliability; these instances can be revoked abruptly due to price...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Responsive Grids
Jun 2010
Grids organize resource sharing, a fundamental requirement of large scientific collaborations. Seamless integration of grids into everyday use requires responsiveness, which can be provided by...
Provided by University of Paris-Sud
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Podcasts
Windows Azure Boot Camp: Windows Azure and the Phone
Jun 2011
In this podcast, the speakers cover creating the data service and consuming it in the application, and talk about the available tools and techniques that make this easy. Technology is changing...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Nigel Waller on the Mobile Cloud
Jan 2011
The Presenter launched Movirtu to provide virtual mobile phone services for people earning less than two dollars a day. As Movirtu expands across Africa and Asia, even the poorest individuals can...
Provided by CC PopTech
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Webcasts
Cloud Computing for Good
Oct 2010
The presenter opened the session, Cloud Computing for Good, by stating that cloud computing provides both huge efficiencies and huge opportunities. The cloud can also help display patterns, which...
Provided by CC PopTech
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Webcasts
Massoud Amin: A Smart Grid
Jan 2011
The speaker wants to make the energy infrastructure more sustainable and secure. The complex systems researcher from the University of Minnesota believes this requires networking energy into a...
Provided by CC PopTech
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White Papers
Managing Data Transfers in Computer Clusters With Orchestra
Aug 2011
Cluster computing applications like MapReduce and Dryad transfer massive amounts of data between their computation stages. These transfers can have a significant impact on job performance,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Strategies for Managing IT Equipment Renewal and Replacement
Nov 2007
IT infrastructure - that diverse collection of hardware, software, and services used to create, process, store, transmit, and display information - is the critical facilitator of the modern...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Webcasts
Momentum Webcast: Enterprise Agreement Welcome Briefing (Level 100)
Dec 2007
The attendee of this webcast will learn about the enterprise commitment, the true-up process (a simple way to report on installed applications), and terms of payment. It will show how to add...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Momentum Webcast: Software Assurance Benefits for You and Your Employees: Home Use Program and Employee Purchase Program (Level 100)
Nov 2007
This webcast explains how to take advantage of two of the most popular software assurance benefits. The attendee of this webcast will how the Home Use and Employee Purchase can help increase...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
WatchGuard Acquisition Scales With Museum of Contemporary Art Redevelopment
Aug 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney is the only museum in Australia dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art from across Australia and around the world....
Provided by WatchGuard Technologies
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White Papers
Secure and Reliable Communication Infrastructure for a Distributed IT-Federation
Feb 2009
One of today's major problems is the lack of detailed and current information on the spot for fire brigades and other action forces (e.g. police). However, access to the distributed information...
Provided by Technische Universität Dortmund
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White Papers
CSMC: Chord Based Session Management Framework for Software as a Service Cloud
Feb 2011
Fusion of virtualization technologies with availability of high bandwidth internet at the end user level has given birth to cloud computing. It promises colossal on-demand processing and storage...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Intelligent Manipulation of Human Activities Using Cloud Computing for U-Life Care
May 2010
Ubiquitous Life Care (u-Life care) is one of the most focus areas of research. To provide robust healthcare services, recognition of patient daily life activities is required. Context information...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
CloudTracker: Tracking Cloud Services for Accelerating Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution
Jul 2011
Large-scale content distribution on today's Internet primarily operates in two modes: cloud-based content distribution, which relies on "Cloud servers" (e.g., servers in data centers or web...
Provided by Peking University
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White Papers
Security Framework of Cloud Data Storage Based on Multi Agent System Architecture: Semantic Literature Review
Nov 2010
The purpose of this paper is to provide the information about illustrating the usage of Multi-Agent System (MAS) techniques that can be beneficial in cloud computing platform to facilitate...
Provided by University Putra Malaysia
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White Papers
How to Make Money in Cloud Computing, the Next Hot Trend in IT
Sep 2010
Information technology has dramatically changed the way people communicate and do business. Changes in Information Technology (IT) are rapidly taking place and investors who are able to spot the...
Provided by Freeman Capital Management
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White Papers
Abstractions for Cloud Computing With Condor
Aug 2009
A cloud computer provides a simple interface that allows end users to allocate large amounts of computing power and storage space at the touch of a button. However, many potential users of cloud...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
SURFnet Cloud Computing Solutions
Mar 2010
SURFnet is the primary supplier of advanced networking to Colleges, Universities and Research Institutions. SURFnet (And partners) wishes to optimize its computing capacity, and hope to realize...
Provided by University of Amsterdam
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White Papers
Multi-Layered Service Suite Conceptualization in Cloud Computing
Dec 2010
In this paper is going to propose multi-layered service suite in cloud computing environment. Different cloud computing services are already classified by the researchers. Each of services serves...
Provided by West Bengal University of Technology
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White Papers
Demystifying Cloud Computing
Jan 2011
Cloud computing is a new terminology that was added to IT jargon in early 2007. Still, people overuse this idiom to refer to things that may not relate to its actual definition and scope. Is it...
Provided by Mansoura University
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White Papers
Programming the Cloud
May 2009
Cloud computing uses data centers to provide on-demand access to services such as data storage and hosted applications that provide scalable web services and large scale data analysis. The massive...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Is There a Cloud in Your Future?: Applications of "Cloud Computing" to Web-Scale Problems
Mar 2008
Cloud computing refers to technology for exploiting large computer clusters to tackle "Web-scale" information processing problems, where immense quantities of data make traditional sequential...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Enabling Cloud Storage for the Enterprise
Jul 2009
As companies rapidly develop new technologies and practices to deliver on the promise of "The cloud", the infrastructure surrounding the cloud architecture needs to quickly evolve to provide...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
Cloud Computing in Developing Economies: Drivers, Effects and Policy Measures
Jan 2010
Cloud computing has been a major focus of some businesses and government agencies in developing economies. Regarding the potential and impact of cloud computing in the developing world, findings...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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White Papers
The Missing Link: Putting the Network in Networked Cloud Computing
Jan 2010
The backbone of IT infrastructure is evolving towards a service-oriented model, in which distributed resources, either software or hardware, can be composed as a customized IT service on demand....
Provided by Duke University
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White Papers
The Importance of a Cloud Storage API
Sep 2009
What does a cloud storage API do for an ISV? First and most importantly, it allows for native communication between the software application and the cloud storage provider. This eliminates the...
Provided by Storage Switzerland
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Whitepapers
Parallel and Distributed Simulation in the Cloud
Jun 2010
Cloud computing offers the ability to transparently provide computing services remotely to users through the Internet, freeing them of the burdens associated with managing computing resources and...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Ontology Alignment in the Cloud
Oct 2010
The problem of ontology alignment is prominent for applications that operate on integrated semantic data. With ontologies becoming numerous and increasingly large in size, scalability is an...
Provided by FZI Karlsruhe
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White Papers
A Model Based Approach to Implement Cloud Computing in e-Governance
Nov 2010
In the current scenario every enterprise wants to implement Cloud Computing to fulfill their computing needs. These changes naturally should reflect the way government functions in terms of the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
Cloud Computing in the Age of Data-Intensive Science
May 2010
The authors described how science is becoming 'Datacentric,' in the sense that vast quantities of public data are used to create new products. What is the cheapest and most efficient way of...
Provided by SPIE
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White Papers
Application of Cloud Computing to Learning
Oct 2010
This study aims to develop learning system, and let the system become intelligent. This paper adopts the swarm intelligence and cloud computing for learning system, and develops friendly...
Provided by Academic Journals
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White Papers
Is Cloud Computing Useful? Not if You're Referring to an Ash Cloud
May 2010
Which communication and social media to use, and in what context, are all factors the authors study in ecommerce and information systems? Among the newer choices for businesses and individuals are...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
A Proposed Architecture of Cloud Computing for Education System in Bangladesh and the Impact on Current Education System
Oct 2010
In this modern era the developing countries will be remain mired in poverty unless they preoccupy more on widening the technology and innovation to everywhere throughout the country including...
Provided by Stamford University Bangladesh
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Whitepapers
Are Clouds Ready for Large Distributed Applications?
Oct 2009
Cloud computing carries the promise of providing powerful new models and abstractions that could transform the way IT services are delivered today. In order to establish the readiness of clouds to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Xen in the Cloud
Jan 2010
The computing industry is buzzing with this seemingly amazing new paradigm shift in how to compute; however, those of one in the industry realize that Cloud Computing is really just the final step...
Provided by Citrix Systems
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White Papers
GeoInformation Computing & Cyberinfrastructure
Jan 2010
Geographic information processing is expanding in several dimensions in the past decades: 1) Earth observation, ground sensing, and other data collection techniques accelerated exponentially the...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Cloud-SAFE - Accounting for Cloud Computing
Jul 2010
The National Institute of Standards and Technology define Cloud Computing as "A model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,...
Provided by SourceForge
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White Papers
Dynamic Cloud Management System for Monitoring and Managing Services
Jul 2010
As cloud computing becomes more widely adopted, the size of cloud systems will necessarily become larger. In recent years, large companies, such as Google and Amazon, have become reliant on...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Cloud-Based Service for Big Spatial Data Technology in Emergence Management
Jan 2010
Following the development of spatial information acquisition technology, more and more spatial data have been collected through various approaches. There has been a full utilization of geospatial...
Provided by Henan Polytechnic University
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Exploring the Scope
May 2010
Cloud computing refers a paradigm shift to overall IT solutions while raising the accessibility, scalability and effectiveness through its enabling technologies. However, migrated cloud platforms...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Allahabad
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White Papers
Cloud Computing and Computing Evolution
Sep 2009
The term cloud computing is sometimes used to refer to a new paradigm - some authors even speak of a new technology - that offers IT resources and services over the Internet. The technology...
Provided by Technische Universitat Munchen
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White Papers
Efficient Deployment of Predictive Analytics Through Open Standards and Cloud Computing
Oct 2009
Over the past decade, the authors have seen tremendous interest in the application of data mining and statistical algorithms, first in research and science and, more recently, across various...
Provided by Zementis
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White Papers
Creating Utah's Cloud Infrastructure
May 2010
In August 2009, Utah CIO announced that the state of Utah was preparing a private cloud that would deliver "Hosted email and web applications" to cities and counties within the state. In fact,...
Provided by State of Utah
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White Papers
Fast Circuit Simulation Based on Parallel-Distributed LIM Using Cloud Computing System
Mar 2010
In these years, the high-speed and high-density electronic circuit designs have been required for the latest chips, packages and boards. With the progress of integration technology, a variety of...
Provided by Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea
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White Papers
Building Confidence in the Cloud: A Proposal for Industry and Government Action for Europe to Reap the Benefits of Cloud Computing
Jan 2010
Cloud computing offers the potential for efficiency, cost savings and innovation gains to governments, businesses and individual users alike. And because the cloud transcends national boundaries,...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
An Optimistic Parallel Simulation Protocol for Cloud Computing Environments
Sep 2010
Cloud computing offers the ability to provide parallel and distributed simulation services remotely to users through the Internet. Services hosted within the "Cloud" can potentially incur...
Provided by National University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Transforming the Enterprise With Cloud Computing
Dec 2009
Organizations are already harnessing the power of the cloud to achieve many benefits - including faster application deployment, greater flexibility and lower total cost of ownership. But today's...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Identity Federation in a Hybrid Cloud Computing Environment Solution Guide
Oct 2009
Cloud computing provides on demand and at scale services for infrastructure, platform, and applications based on an off premise, pay-as-one-go operational model. The enterprise benefits from cloud...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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White Papers
RFP 133 Cloud Computing
Oct 2010
An investigation into the possibility for standard OSGi Service APIs and new features for the framework that can be useful for using OSGi in the context of cloud/grid/utility computing. The unique...
Provided by OSGi Alliance
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Storms
Mar 2010
Cloud Computing (CC) is seeing many organisations experiencing the 'Credit crunch', embracing the relatively low cost option of CC to ensure continued business viability and sustainability. The...
Provided by Infonomics Society
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White Papers
The Shift to Cloud Computing: Forget the Technology, It's About Economics
Dec 2010
Cloud computing is hailed as the next big thing in IT, and a great deal of attention has focused on cloud technology. But technology is not the primary impetus to shift from traditional,...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Secure Cloud Computing in the Chemistry Laboratory: A Budget-Friendly Approach to Computational Work
Jun 2010
The design and implementation of a web-based, cloud computing system at a small undergraduate college will be discussed. This cloud uses freely available and low cost software to create a robust,...
Provided by University of Pittsburgh
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White Papers
Parallel Applications and Tools for Cloud Computing Environments
Sep 2010
The main research focus of SALSA project is two-fold. First, the authors investigate new programming models of parallel multicore computing and Cloud/Grid computing. It aimed at developing and...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
NEON - Northern Europe Cloud Computing
Feb 2010
A large fraction of today's eScience users run single node jobs. Many of these single node jobs may run equally well on a commodity machine and with a smaller effort from the user. The aim with...
Provided by Danish Centre for Scientific Computing (DCSC)
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White Papers
Consumer Protection in Cloud Computing Services: Recommendations for Best Practices From a Consumer Federation of America Retreat on Cloud Computing
Nov 2010
Consumers, businesses and government agencies increasingly are storing data and using services "In the cloud." This has profound implications for consumer protection. Consumers are entrusting...
Provided by Pew Internet & American Life Project
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White Papers
Building Dynamic Computing Infrastructures Over Distributed Clouds
May 2011
The emergence of cloud computing infrastructures brings new ways to build and manage computing systems, with the flexibility offered by virtualization technologies. This paper focuses on two...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Combining Grid and Cloud Resources by Use of Middleware for SPMD Applications
Feb 2011
Distributed computing environments have evolved from in-house clusters to Grids and now Cloud platforms. The authors, as others, provide HPC benchmarks results over Amazon EC2 that show a lower...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Forecasting for Cloud Computing On-Demand Resources Based on Pattern Matching
Jul 2010
The Cloud phenomenon brings along the cost-saving benefit of dynamic scaling. Knowledge in advance is necessary as the virtual resources that Cloud computing uses have a setup time that is not...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Decision Model for Cloud Computing Under SLA Constraints
Apr 2010
With the recent introduction of Spot Instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), users can bid for resources and thus control the balance of reliability versus monetary costs. A critical...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
ROCS: A Remotely Provisioned OSGi Framework for Ambient Systems
Nov 2009
One of the challenges of ambient systems lies in providing all the available services of the environment to the ambient devices, even if they do not physically host those services. Although this...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Reducing Costs of Spot Instances Via Checkpointing in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Mar 2010
Recently introduced spot instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offer lower resource costs in exchange for reduced reliability; these instances can be revoked abruptly due to price...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Responsive Grids
Jun 2010
Grids organize resource sharing, a fundamental requirement of large scientific collaborations. Seamless integration of grids into everyday use requires responsiveness, which can be provided by...
Provided by University of Paris-Sud
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Podcasts
Windows Azure Boot Camp: Windows Azure and the Phone
Jun 2011
In this podcast, the speakers cover creating the data service and consuming it in the application, and talk about the available tools and techniques that make this easy. Technology is changing...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Nigel Waller on the Mobile Cloud
Jan 2011
The Presenter launched Movirtu to provide virtual mobile phone services for people earning less than two dollars a day. As Movirtu expands across Africa and Asia, even the poorest individuals can...
Provided by CC PopTech
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Webcasts
Cloud Computing for Good
Oct 2010
The presenter opened the session, Cloud Computing for Good, by stating that cloud computing provides both huge efficiencies and huge opportunities. The cloud can also help display patterns, which...
Provided by CC PopTech
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Webcasts
Massoud Amin: A Smart Grid
Jan 2011
The speaker wants to make the energy infrastructure more sustainable and secure. The complex systems researcher from the University of Minnesota believes this requires networking energy into a...
Provided by CC PopTech
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White Papers
Managing Data Transfers in Computer Clusters With Orchestra
Aug 2011
Cluster computing applications like MapReduce and Dryad transfer massive amounts of data between their computation stages. These transfers can have a significant impact on job performance,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Strategies for Managing IT Equipment Renewal and Replacement
Nov 2007
IT infrastructure - that diverse collection of hardware, software, and services used to create, process, store, transmit, and display information - is the critical facilitator of the modern...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
-
Webcasts
Momentum Webcast: Enterprise Agreement Welcome Briefing (Level 100)
Dec 2007
The attendee of this webcast will learn about the enterprise commitment, the true-up process (a simple way to report on installed applications), and terms of payment. It will show how to add...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Webcasts
Momentum Webcast: Software Assurance Benefits for You and Your Employees: Home Use Program and Employee Purchase Program (Level 100)
Nov 2007
This webcast explains how to take advantage of two of the most popular software assurance benefits. The attendee of this webcast will how the Home Use and Employee Purchase can help increase...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
WatchGuard Acquisition Scales With Museum of Contemporary Art Redevelopment
Aug 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney is the only museum in Australia dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art from across Australia and around the world....
Provided by WatchGuard Technologies
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White Papers
Secure and Reliable Communication Infrastructure for a Distributed IT-Federation
Feb 2009
One of today's major problems is the lack of detailed and current information on the spot for fire brigades and other action forces (e.g. police). However, access to the distributed information...
Provided by Technische Universität Dortmund
-
White Papers
CSMC: Chord Based Session Management Framework for Software as a Service Cloud
Feb 2011
Fusion of virtualization technologies with availability of high bandwidth internet at the end user level has given birth to cloud computing. It promises colossal on-demand processing and storage...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Intelligent Manipulation of Human Activities Using Cloud Computing for U-Life Care
May 2010
Ubiquitous Life Care (u-Life care) is one of the most focus areas of research. To provide robust healthcare services, recognition of patient daily life activities is required. Context information...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Adoption Issues for Cloud Computing
Mar 2010
Cloud computing allows users to use only a Web browser to receive computing services via the Internet. Users only need to pay for the services they actually use. It appears that a wide adoption of...
Provided by Sungkyunkwan University
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White Papers
CloudTracker: Tracking Cloud Services for Accelerating Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution
Jul 2011
Large-scale content distribution on today's Internet primarily operates in two modes: cloud-based content distribution, which relies on "Cloud servers" (e.g., servers in data centers or web...
Provided by Peking University
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White Papers
Security Framework of Cloud Data Storage Based on Multi Agent System Architecture: Semantic Literature Review
Nov 2010
The purpose of this paper is to provide the information about illustrating the usage of Multi-Agent System (MAS) techniques that can be beneficial in cloud computing platform to facilitate...
Provided by University Putra Malaysia
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White Papers
SecCSIE: A Secure Cloud Storage Integrator for Enterprises
Jul 2011
Cloud computing services eliminate the need for local storage thereby lowering operational and maintenance costs. However, security and privacy concerns regarding the out-sourced data prevail....
Provided by Dresden University of Technology
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White Papers
The Necessity and the Scheme of Super Cloud and Super Cloud Language Existence
Sep 2011
The technology of cloud computing has attracted wide attention since its beginning, and it will become the mainstream in IT industry of next step. However, the future situation of cloud computing...
Provided by Chifeng University
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White Papers
Trustworthy Clouds Underpinning the Future Internet
Mar 2011
Cloud computing is a new service delivery paradigm that aims to provide standardized services with self-service, pay-per-use, and seemingly unlimited scalability. This paradigm can be implemented...
Provided by Maastricht University
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White Papers
The Applied Research of Cloud Computing Platform Architecture in the e-Learning Area
Jul 2010
This paper firstly introduces the characteristics of the current E-Learning, and then analyzes the concept and characteristics of cloud computing, and describes the architecture of cloud computing...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Virtual Machine Auto-Configuration for Web Application
Sep 2010
With the booming trend of cloud computing, on-demand resource management is overwhelming static and dedicated strategy. The increasing demands introduce multiple challenges including energy...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
GridSpace Scripting Environment - From Common Component Architecture to Cloud Components
Apr 2011
This paper presents an overview of the experience from investigating various approaches to component-based scientific applications on grids and clouds. The developed frameworks include the MOCCA...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Towards XtreemOS in the Clouds - Automatic Deployment of an XtreemOS Resource in a Nimbus Cloud
Feb 2010
Cloud is a new computing model which seamlessly provides on-demand resource lease as transparent services to the user and it is based on virtualization technologies. Grid is a mature model based...
Provided by INRIA
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White Papers
VMFlock: Virtual Machine Co-Migration for the Cloud
Mar 2011
This paper presents VMFlockMS, a migration service optimized for cross-datacenter transfer and instantiation of groups of Virtual Machine (VM) images that comprise an application-level solution...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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White Papers
Classified Power Capping With Distribution Trees in Cloud Computing
Jul 2011
Power management is becoming very important in data centers. Cloud computing is also one of the newest promising datacenter techniques which is appealing to many big companies. As cloud computing...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
To Move or Not to Move: The Economics of Cloud Computing
May 2011
Cloud-based hosting promises cost advantages over conventional in-house (on-premise) application deployment. One important question when considering a move to the cloud is whether it makes sense...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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White Papers
Unshackle the Cloud!
May 2011
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds are evolving from offering simple on-demand resources to providing diverse sets of tightly-coupled monolithic services. Like OS kernels of the 1980's and...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Virtual Machine Images as Structured Data: The Mirage Image Library
May 2011
The rise of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds, both private and public, has created new problems in managing large collections of Virtual-Machine (VM) images. VM images must be kept...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
EVE: Verifying Correct Execution of Cloud-Hosted Web Applications
May 2011
The authors present a new approach to verifying that a completely untrusted, Platform-as-a-Service cloud is correctly executing an outsourced web application. Web applications such as blogs,...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
The HybrEx Model for Confidentiality and Privacy in Cloud Computing
May 2011
This paper proposes a new execution model for confidentiality and privacy in cloud computing, called the HybrEx (Hybrid Execution) model. The HybrEx model provides a seamless way for an...
Provided by State University of New York
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White Papers
Cutting MapReduce Cost With Spot Market
May 2011
Spot market provides the ideal mechanism to leverage idle CPU resources and smooth out the computation demands. Unfortunately, few applications can take advantage of spot market because they...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
A Comprehensive Approach to Ensure Secure Data Communication in Cloud Environment
Dec 2010
Cloud computing is an Internet based development, in concept, it is a paradigm shift whereby details are abstracted from the users who no longer need knowledge of, expertise in, or control over...
Provided by VIT UNIVERSITY
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White Papers
Managing Appliance Launches in Infrastructure Clouds
Jul 2011
Infrastructure cloud computing introduces a significant paradigm shift that has the potential to revolutionize how scientific computing is done. However, while it is actively adopted by a number...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Semantic Resource Allocation With Historical Data Based Predictions
Aug 2010
One of the most important issues for Service Providers in Cloud Computing is delivering a good quality of service. This is achieved by means of the adaptation to a changing environment where...
Provided by Hungarian Academy of Sciences
