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Optimal Service Pricing for a Cloud Cache
Feb 2011
Cloud applications that offer data management services are emerging. Such clouds support caching of data in order to provide quality query services. The users can query the cloud data, paying the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Energy-Information Transmission Tradeoff in Green Cloud Computing
Jun 2010
With the rise of Internet-scale systems and cloud computing services, there is an increasing trend towards building massive, energy-hungry, and geographically distributed data centers. Due to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Embracing the Cloud for Better Cyber Security
Feb 2011
The future of cyber security is inextricably tied to the future of computing. Organizational needs and economic factors will drive computing outcomes. Cyber security researchers and practitioners...
Provided by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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White Papers
Managing Risk on the Journey to Virtualization and the Cloud
Aug 2010
Virtualization has set IT free from many of its legacy constraints on resource optimization. But as virtualization enables IT to evolve into highly flexible service architectures such as cloud...
Provided by Enterprise Management Associates
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White Papers
Cloud Software Service: Concepts, Technology, Economics
Jan 2010
Cloud software service is a modality for providing computer facilities and deploying software via the Internet. The concept combines Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Cloud...
Provided by Savannah State University
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White Papers
OPTIMIS: A Holistic Approach to Cloud Service Provisioning
Aug 2010
The authors present the fundamentals for a toolkit for scalable and dependable service platforms and architectures that enable flexible and dynamic provisioning of cloud services. The innovations...
Provided by University of Leeds
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White Papers
Translation of Application-Level Terms to Resource-Level Attributes Across the Cloud Stack Layers
Apr 2011
The emergence of new environments such as Cloud computing highlighted new challenges in traditional fields like performance estimation. Most of the current cloud environments follow the Software,...
Provided by National Technical University of Athens
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White Papers
Regulatory Impact of Data Protection and Privacy in the Cloud
Mar 2011
The use of cloud computing services has developed into a new method for deploying software and services and hosting data. The model has provided enormous social and economic benefits but at the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
An Efficient Secure Shared Storage Service With Fault and Investigative Disruption Tolerance
Sep 2010
In this paper, the authors focus on solutions to an emerging threat to cloud-based services - namely that of data seizures within a shared multiple customer architecture. They focus on the problem...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Home Is Safer Than the Cloud! Privacy Concerns for Consumer Cloud Storage
Jul 2011
Several studies ranked security and privacy to be major areas of concern and impediments of cloud adoption for companies, but none have looked into end-users' attitudes and practices. Not much is...
Provided by ETH Zurich
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White Papers
Towards Accountability in the Cloud
Sep 2011
Accountability is likely to become a core concept in the cloud and to underpin new mechanisms that help increase trust in the cloud. These mechanisms must be applied in an intelligent way, taking...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard Development Company
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White Papers
BOTCLOUDS the Future of Cloud-Based Botnets?
Mar 2011
Many Cloud Service Providers (CSP) offer access to scalable, reliable computing resources following a pay-as-you-go model. Research into security of the Cloud focuses mainly on protecting...
Provided by Delft University of Technology
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White Papers
Privacy and Consumer Risks in Cloud Computing
Jul 2010
Anyone with an interest in information technology would have found it virtually impossible to avoid coming across the term 'Cloud computing' in recent times. While vague and wide in scope, there...
Provided by University of New South Wales
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White Papers
A Study on the Readiness of Cloud Computing for Captious Computations
Aug 2011
The emergence cloud computing in the computing arena has had major effect in way the authors utilize computing resources. It is being heralded by many as the new computing paradigm, coming with...
Provided by Bapatla Engineering College
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White Papers
Quantum Attack Resistant Cloud
Sep 2011
The emergence of cloud computing in the computing arena has had a major effect in a way the authors utilize computing resources. It is being heralded by many as the new computing paradigm, coming...
Provided by Bapatla Engineering College
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White Papers
Security and Privacy Challenges in Cloud Computing Environments
Dec 2010
Cloud computing has generated significant interest in both academia and industry, but it's still an evolving paradigm. Essentially, it aims to consolidate the economic utility model with the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Impact of Misconfiguration in Cloud - Investigation Into Security Challenges
Mar 2011
The purpose of this paper is to explore key concepts and ideas surrounding the security challenges of cloud computing, with particular reference to configuration having considerable impact on...
Provided by Infonomics Society
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White Papers
Lightweight Checkpoint Mechanism and Modeling in GPGPU Environment
Mar 2010
While High Performance Computing (HPC) systems continue to scale in volume of computing elements and overall computing powers, the performance/cost benefit of these systems is subject to their...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
A Hierarchical Model to Evaluate Quality of Experience of Online Services Hosted by Cloud Computing
May 2011
As online service providers utilize cloud computing to host their services, they are challenged by evaluating the quality of experience and designing redirection strategies in this complicated...
Provided by Duke University
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White Papers
Accurate Modeling and Generation of Storage I/O for Datacenter Workloads
Feb 2011
Tools that confidently recreate I/O workloads have become a critical requirement in designing efficient storage systems for DataCenters (DCs), since potential inefficiencies get aggregated over...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
On the Elasticity of NoSQL Databases Over Cloud Management Platforms
Sep 2011
NoSQL databases focus on analytical processing of large scale datasets, offering increased scalability over commodity hardware. One of their strongest features is elasticity, which allows for...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Schedule Optimization for Data Processing Flows on the Cloud
Jun 2011
Scheduling data processing workflows (dataflows) on the cloud is a very complex and challenging task. It is essentially an optimization problem, very similar to query optimization, that is...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Risk Aware Resource Allocation for Clouds
May 2011
Cloud computing offers on-demand access to large-scale computing resources in a pay-as-you go manner. Market-based resource allocation mechanisms are gaining popularity among commercial cloud...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
Provisioning for Cloud Computing
Dec 2010
The paradigm of cloud computing has started a new era of service computing. While there are many research efforts on developing enabling technologies for cloud computing, few focuses on how to...
Provided by Ohio State University
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White Papers
VM Placement in Non-Homogeneous IaaS-Clouds
Sep 2011
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers often combine different hardware components in an attempt to form a single infrastructure. This single infrastructure hides any underlying...
Provided by University of Athens
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White Papers
Cloud-Based Sustainability Governance - State of the Art and Open Issues
Jun 2011
Sustainability governance for resource consumption by humans, such as carbon footprint and electricity consumption in facilities, is a complex issue that requires extensible platforms to manage...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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White Papers
Cloud Gazing: A Comprehensive Evaluation of IaaS Technologies for FutureGrid
Mar 2011
Since the beginning of Cloud computing as a new and emerging paradigm, the field of Distributed Systems is amidst a stage of redefinition. Due to this, there are a wide variety of "Cloud"...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
CloudInsight: Shedding Light on the Cloud
Jul 2011
Cloud computing provides a revolutionary new computing paradigm for deploying enterprise applications and Internet services. Rather than operating their own data centers, today cloud users run...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
Database Scalability, Elasticity, and Autonomy in the Cloud
Mar 2011
The proliferation of technology in the past two decades has created an interesting dichotomy for users. There is very little disagreement that an individual's life is significantly enriched as a...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Scheduling Grid Applications on Clouds
Jun 2010
Grid computing emerged as a computing paradigm to take advantage of the enormous availability of computing and communication resources in the Internet. Cloud computing succeeded grid computing as...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Cost-Effective Cloud Service for E-Learning Video on Demand
Jul 2011
The main aim of this research paper is to develop a cost-effective model for storing and fetching e-Learning Videos and to deploy the same in cloud environment, thus making 'e-Learning Video on...
Provided by EuroJournals
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White Papers
Managed Services: Taking Advantage of Managed Services in the High-End Enterprise
Feb 2008
This paper explores the challenges and solutions for high-end enterprises using managed services. Two key reasons for a large enterprise to adopt managed services follow which are consistent and...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Network-Based Application Recognition Protocol Discovery Management Information Base
Nov 2007
The existing Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) feature is used to identify protocols so traffic can be classified appropriately for Quality of Service purposes. NBAR also contains a...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Operational Ef?ciency Takes Off at Berlin's Airports With Improved Systems Availability
Nov 2007
Flughafen Berlin-Schonefeld GmbH operates three airports in Berlin, which serve 150-plus destinations worldwide and more than 18 million passenger a year. With the distraction of a major airport...
Provided by CA
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Case Studies
Merced Systems Protects Operations With Cross-Atlantic NetApp Disaster Recovery
Oct 2011
Merced Systems is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions focused on improving the business execution of sales and customer service activities. Merced Systems helps companies...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Magna International Drives IT Efficiency With Private Cloud Built on NetApp
Oct 2011
A diversified global automotive supplier, Magna International designs, develops, and manufactures technologically advanced automotive systems, assemblies, modules, and components. Their challenge...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
The City of Bellevue Meets Growth and Budget Challenges With NetApp and VMware
Oct 2011
Bellevue is the fifth largest city in Washington. They need to optimize IT infrastructure to support a dynamic offering of city services and 35% annual data growth. Institute an energy- and...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
WSFS Bank IT Delivers Private Cloud Services on NetApp and VMware for Agility, DR, Efficiency
Oct 2011
WSFS Bank is one of the 10 oldest continuously operating banks in the United States. By all accounts, WSFS Bank is thriving, experiencing above-peer loan and deposit growth, strong earnings, and...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Mobility Drives Car Sharing Into the Cloud Using NetApp SAN Storage
Oct 2011
Mobility is Europe's largest independent car-sharing platform. Mobility is Switzerland's leading car-sharing provider. It handles 5,500 reservations every day, processing 93% of them...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
LexisNexis Delivers Multi-Tenant Cloud-Based Data Center Services on NetApp Storage
Apr 2010
LexisNexis, a technology provider with 37 years of legal industry experience, strong data management expertise, and world-class global data centers. LexisNexis wants to add value by offering...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Capacity Leasing in Cloud Systems Using the OpenNebula Engine
Aug 2008
Clouds can be used to provide on-demand capacity as a utility. Although the realization of this idea can differ among various cloud providers from Google App Engine1 to Amazon EC2, the most...
Provided by University of Chicago
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White Papers
Secure Cloud Computing With a Virtualized Network Infrastructure
May 2010
Despite the rapid development in the field of cloud computing, security is still one of the major hurdles to cloud computing adoption. Most cloud services e.g. Amazon EC2 is offered at low cost...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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White Papers
Grid Architectural Issues: State-of-the Art and Future Trends
May 2008
Grid architecture is one of the cornerstones for successful development and proliferation of Grid computing. The scale, dynamism and openness of the Grid, together with demands on its reliability,...
Provided by CoreGRID Network of Excellence
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White Papers
Cloud Computing and the Power to Choose
Jun 2010
Some of the most significant changes in information technology are those that have given the individual user greater power to choose. The first of these changes was the development of the personal...
Provided by EDUCAUSE
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing: Risks and Rewards
Oct 2009
A key development in the evolution to cloud computing has been the virtualization of server infrastructure. Moving this virtualization to "The Cloud," third-party service providers can virtualize...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
Use Cases and Functional Requirements for Inter-Cloud Computing
Aug 2009
There is a rising expectation to the potential capability of cloud systems as an IT infrastructure that will help to create new values. If cloud systems are to be applied to wider areas, such as...
Provided by Global Inter-Cloud Technology Forum
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White Papers
Cloud Infrastructure Foundation a Flexible, Responsive Cloud Is Built From the Ground Up
Oct 2009
At its heart, cloud computing is a new operational and business model for IT application hosting, rather than a new technology. It promises to deliver highly reliable, highly elastic services that...
Provided by Egenera
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White Papers
Cloud Computing and Web Application Performance: The Risks of Adopting the Cloud
Dec 2009
Any business considering cloud computing to support its customer-facing Web applications must look beyond the cloud's cost savings and scalability and evaluate how cloud adoption will impact the...
Provided by Gomez
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White Papers
Australian Perspectives on Cloud Computing Telstra Executive Insights Report
May 2010
Cloud computing has quickly proven itself as an idea that can save money and improve efficiency for those who adopt it. These benefits are easy to realize for smaller users, but large enterprises...
Provided by Telstra
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White Papers
Citrix OpenCloud Bridge
Oct 2010
Enterprise organizations want to take advantage of cloud computing but do not want to give up their own datacenters. This suggests a hybrid cloud strategy that is a mix of both public and private...
Provided by Citrix
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White Papers
Identity and Access Management for Approaching Clouds
May 2010
Cloud computing is in the process of changing the enterprise IT landscape. Formal and informal surveys of IT management professionals provide strong evidence that cloud computing not only is here...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
The Security Implications of Cloud Computing
Feb 2010
Two of the most important risk topics to emerge in the last year are the explosive emergence of cloud computing and the growing risks presented by insiders within organizations. Both of these...
Provided by issa
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Whitepapers
Securing the Cloud
Apr 2010
While companies certainly see a business benefit to a pay-as - go model for computing resources, security concerns seem always to appear at the top of surveys regarding cloud computing. These...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Whitepapers
Creating a Hybrid ADN Architecture With Both Virtual and Physical ADCs
Feb 2010
Virtualization has long since moved from an emerging data center technology into a standard deployment tool across organizations of all sizes, regardless of industry. A virtualization survey from...
Provided by F5 Networks
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White Papers
Multipoint Video Conferencing
Feb 2010
This paper describes Nefsis multipoint video conferencing and details how cloud computing, parallel processing and standard A/V peripherals deliver superior video conferencing at a lower cost and...
Provided by Nefsis
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White Papers
Intel Vision of the Ongoing Shift to Cloud Computing
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
Cloud Computing Alternative sourcing strategy for business ICT.
Sep 2010
The term "Cloud Computing" has been mentioned for just under two years in relation to services or infrastructural resources, which can be contracted over a network. Thus, the idea of renting...
Provided by T-Systems
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White Papers
Storage Infrastructure for Cloud Computing NetApp Is the Technology Partner of Choice
Aug 2009
Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a reality, and forward-thinking IT organizations are moving quickly to evolve existing IT infrastructures to include cloud capabilities that provide IT as a...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Addressing Data Security Challenges in the Cloud
Jul 2010
Enterprises increasingly recognize cloud computing compelling economic and operational benefits. Vitalizing and pooling IT resources in the cloud enables organizations to realize significant cost...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Hybrid Web Security: The Best of Cloud Computing and On-Premises Combined
Apr 2010
Web security has evolved along with the Web itself, and the varying threats and attacks that need to be controlled at any one time. Initially, the biggest threat to people using the Web was one of...
Provided by M86 Security
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White Papers
GIS Plugs Into the Cloud
Apr 2010
Terms Such as Cloud Computing, on Demand and Software as a Service (saas) Have Become Prevalent Among Gis Users. Clearly, More Dynamic Applications for Location Intelligence Have Sparked a Growing...
Provided by Pitney Bowes Software
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White Papers
The Joyent Smart Technologies Architecture for Cloud Computing
May 2010
The term cloud computing encompasses many different types of services. Therefore, evaluating business needs carefully before choosing a cloud vendor is imperative. Software-, platform-, and...
Provided by Joyent
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White Papers
Enterprise Cloud Solutions: Meeting Business and Financial Demands
Feb 2010
Cloud computing, sometimes referred to as the "Third Revolution" in the IT industry, follows the personal computer and Internet "Revolutions" and is already transforming the way they think about...
Provided by Citrix
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White Papers
Cloud Computing What Is Its Potential Value for Your Company?
Aug 2009
In essence, cloud computing means running software and accessing data that reside somewhere else. ZDNet explains (Hinchcliffe, 2008) cloud computing in business-trend terms: "Software platforms...
Provided by CBS Interactive
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White Papers
Cloud Computing-Offering Opportunities Across the Media and Entertainment Value Chain
Jan 2010
Expanding consumer demands and rapidly evolving technology are thrusting content creators and distributors into a new world. Development and distribution of digital content is exploding. Consumers...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard
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White Papers
Capacity Management Ensures Success for Enterprise Cloud Consumers
Jun 2010
At one time or another in the lives, one have all looked up at the clouds; watching a never-ending parade of different forms and faces that stimulate the imagination. Many of the clouds are...
Provided by TeamQuest
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Whitepapers
Cloud Computing Payback
Nov 2009
Today, organizations of all sizes are investigating cloud computing and the benefits it can bring to their company. Given the numerous claims of savings and productivity improvements, it can...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Drives Break through Improvementsin IT Service Delivery, Speed,and Costs
May 2009
Cloud computing promotes a new dialogue between business and IT decision makers. It allows decision makers to define business service requirements first and then decide how to balance the use of...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Network as a Service and Mobile Cloud Computing
Feb 2010
One of the most exciting and potentially profitable developments in computing and the Internet is the emergence of "Cloud Computing". With their valuable communications assets and massive...
Provided by AePONA
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White Papers
Panda Cloud Protection
Jan 2010
In its report about emerging technologies and maturity cycles, Gartner identifies Cloud Computing as one of the 1,650 technologies that will define future trends. As the market is still maturing,...
Provided by Panda Security
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White Papers
IT in the Cloud: Using VMware VCloud for Reliable, WI Flexible, Shared IT Resources
Oct 2008
Since the 1960s, computing has evolved from a very static, mainframe-based model to a one of service delivery. Tradeoffs for this evolution have involved manageability, reliability, openness and...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
The Seven Standards of Cloud Computing Service Delivery
Mar 2009
The technology industry has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. In economic times like these, leading companies are looking to cloud-computing platforms to deliver business functions...
Provided by salesforce
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Alternative Sourcing Strategy for Business ICT
Apr 2009
The term "Cloud Computing" has been mentioned for just under two years in relation to services or infrastructural resources, which can be contracted over a network. Thus, the idea of renting...
Provided by T-Systems
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White Papers
Enterprise Cloud Computing: Transforming IT
Jul 2009
Cloud computing is a new, important IT delivery model that provides infrastructure and computer resources as a service. This new paradigm, the next phase in the evolution of distributed computing,...
Provided by Platform Computing
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White Papers
Parting the Clouds: Demystifying Cloud Computing Options
May 2010
It's not hard to understand why this model appeals to CEOs and senior executives alike. They know that business agility is increasingly key to commercial success. With money in tight supply,...
Provided by Verizon
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White Papers
Embracing the Cloud: Top Seven Imperatives for an Organization
Apr 2009
A gradual increase in the adoption of cloud platforms and cloud services by the enterprises of today points to a paradigm shift in the way the IT services are procured and managed. This shift is...
Provided by Wipro
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White Papers
Can You Trust the Cloud a Practical Guide to the Opportunities and Challenges Involved in Cloud Computing
Jul 2010
Cloud computing is one of the hot topics of the day. And it deserves all the attention, because it has the potential to deliver a wide range of innovative services for the management of...
Provided by Xerox
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Consideration and Next Step
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
Improving Backup Effectiveness and Cost-Efficiency With Deduplicationa
Oct 2010
IT professionals responsible for backup and recovery operations are seeking ways to make processes automated, faster, more reliable, and less costly via the use of disk-to-disk-to-disk (D2D2D) or...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Shadow Protect
Jun 2009
Advancements in technology and price reductions have made it possible to combine disk-based backup technologies together with virtualization and tape backup solutions to improve data backup and...
Provided by StorageCraft Technology
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White Papers
Privacy and Consumer Risks in Cloud Computing
Jul 2010
Anyone with an interest in information technology would have found it virtually impossible to avoid coming across the term 'Cloud computing' in recent times. While vague and wide in scope, there...
Provided by University of New South Wales
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White Papers
A Study on the Readiness of Cloud Computing for Captious Computations
Aug 2011
The emergence cloud computing in the computing arena has had major effect in way the authors utilize computing resources. It is being heralded by many as the new computing paradigm, coming with...
Provided by Bapatla Engineering College
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White Papers
Quantum Attack Resistant Cloud
Sep 2011
The emergence of cloud computing in the computing arena has had a major effect in a way the authors utilize computing resources. It is being heralded by many as the new computing paradigm, coming...
Provided by Bapatla Engineering College
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White Papers
Security and Privacy Challenges in Cloud Computing Environments
Dec 2010
Cloud computing has generated significant interest in both academia and industry, but it's still an evolving paradigm. Essentially, it aims to consolidate the economic utility model with the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Impact of Misconfiguration in Cloud - Investigation Into Security Challenges
Mar 2011
The purpose of this paper is to explore key concepts and ideas surrounding the security challenges of cloud computing, with particular reference to configuration having considerable impact on...
Provided by Infonomics Society
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White Papers
Lightweight Checkpoint Mechanism and Modeling in GPGPU Environment
Mar 2010
While High Performance Computing (HPC) systems continue to scale in volume of computing elements and overall computing powers, the performance/cost benefit of these systems is subject to their...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
A Hierarchical Model to Evaluate Quality of Experience of Online Services Hosted by Cloud Computing
May 2011
As online service providers utilize cloud computing to host their services, they are challenged by evaluating the quality of experience and designing redirection strategies in this complicated...
Provided by Duke University
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White Papers
Accurate Modeling and Generation of Storage I/O for Datacenter Workloads
Feb 2011
Tools that confidently recreate I/O workloads have become a critical requirement in designing efficient storage systems for DataCenters (DCs), since potential inefficiencies get aggregated over...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
On the Elasticity of NoSQL Databases Over Cloud Management Platforms
Sep 2011
NoSQL databases focus on analytical processing of large scale datasets, offering increased scalability over commodity hardware. One of their strongest features is elasticity, which allows for...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Schedule Optimization for Data Processing Flows on the Cloud
Jun 2011
Scheduling data processing workflows (dataflows) on the cloud is a very complex and challenging task. It is essentially an optimization problem, very similar to query optimization, that is...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Risk Aware Resource Allocation for Clouds
May 2011
Cloud computing offers on-demand access to large-scale computing resources in a pay-as-you go manner. Market-based resource allocation mechanisms are gaining popularity among commercial cloud...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
Provisioning for Cloud Computing
Dec 2010
The paradigm of cloud computing has started a new era of service computing. While there are many research efforts on developing enabling technologies for cloud computing, few focuses on how to...
Provided by Ohio State University
-
White Papers
VM Placement in Non-Homogeneous IaaS-Clouds
Sep 2011
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers often combine different hardware components in an attempt to form a single infrastructure. This single infrastructure hides any underlying...
Provided by University of Athens
-
White Papers
Cloud-Based Sustainability Governance - State of the Art and Open Issues
Jun 2011
Sustainability governance for resource consumption by humans, such as carbon footprint and electricity consumption in facilities, is a complex issue that requires extensible platforms to manage...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
-
White Papers
Cloud Gazing: A Comprehensive Evaluation of IaaS Technologies for FutureGrid
Mar 2011
Since the beginning of Cloud computing as a new and emerging paradigm, the field of Distributed Systems is amidst a stage of redefinition. Due to this, there are a wide variety of "Cloud"...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
CloudInsight: Shedding Light on the Cloud
Jul 2011
Cloud computing provides a revolutionary new computing paradigm for deploying enterprise applications and Internet services. Rather than operating their own data centers, today cloud users run...
Provided by University of Illinois
-
White Papers
Database Scalability, Elasticity, and Autonomy in the Cloud
Mar 2011
The proliferation of technology in the past two decades has created an interesting dichotomy for users. There is very little disagreement that an individual's life is significantly enriched as a...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Scheduling Grid Applications on Clouds
Jun 2010
Grid computing emerged as a computing paradigm to take advantage of the enormous availability of computing and communication resources in the Internet. Cloud computing succeeded grid computing as...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Cost-Effective Cloud Service for E-Learning Video on Demand
Jul 2011
The main aim of this research paper is to develop a cost-effective model for storing and fetching e-Learning Videos and to deploy the same in cloud environment, thus making 'e-Learning Video on...
Provided by EuroJournals
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White Papers
Managed Services: Taking Advantage of Managed Services in the High-End Enterprise
Feb 2008
This paper explores the challenges and solutions for high-end enterprises using managed services. Two key reasons for a large enterprise to adopt managed services follow which are consistent and...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Network-Based Application Recognition Protocol Discovery Management Information Base
Nov 2007
The existing Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) feature is used to identify protocols so traffic can be classified appropriately for Quality of Service purposes. NBAR also contains a...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Operational Ef?ciency Takes Off at Berlin's Airports With Improved Systems Availability
Nov 2007
Flughafen Berlin-Schonefeld GmbH operates three airports in Berlin, which serve 150-plus destinations worldwide and more than 18 million passenger a year. With the distraction of a major airport...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Essential Disaster Recovery Template
Jan 2008
Keeping your business running in any situation is critical to preserving customer trust and ensuring profitability. To do so requires a disaster recovery plan that you can quickly refer to in a...
Provided by Simply Continuous
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Case Studies
Merced Systems Protects Operations With Cross-Atlantic NetApp Disaster Recovery
Oct 2011
Merced Systems is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions focused on improving the business execution of sales and customer service activities. Merced Systems helps companies...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Magna International Drives IT Efficiency With Private Cloud Built on NetApp
Oct 2011
A diversified global automotive supplier, Magna International designs, develops, and manufactures technologically advanced automotive systems, assemblies, modules, and components. Their challenge...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
The City of Bellevue Meets Growth and Budget Challenges With NetApp and VMware
Oct 2011
Bellevue is the fifth largest city in Washington. They need to optimize IT infrastructure to support a dynamic offering of city services and 35% annual data growth. Institute an energy- and...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
WSFS Bank IT Delivers Private Cloud Services on NetApp and VMware for Agility, DR, Efficiency
Oct 2011
WSFS Bank is one of the 10 oldest continuously operating banks in the United States. By all accounts, WSFS Bank is thriving, experiencing above-peer loan and deposit growth, strong earnings, and...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Mobility Drives Car Sharing Into the Cloud Using NetApp SAN Storage
Oct 2011
Mobility is Europe's largest independent car-sharing platform. Mobility is Switzerland's leading car-sharing provider. It handles 5,500 reservations every day, processing 93% of them...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
LexisNexis Delivers Multi-Tenant Cloud-Based Data Center Services on NetApp Storage
Apr 2010
LexisNexis, a technology provider with 37 years of legal industry experience, strong data management expertise, and world-class global data centers. LexisNexis wants to add value by offering...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Dynamic Auction Mechanism for Cloud Resource Allocation
Feb 2010
The authors propose a dynamic auction mechanism to solve the allocation problem of computation capacity in the environment of cloud computing. Truth-telling property holds when they apply a...
Provided by National Taiwan University
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White Papers
Active Directory and the Cloud
Aug 2011
This paper, however, barely touches upon the power of HOAS. It is an incredibly powerful and extendible tool and may be used to implement almost any imaginable custom scenario. In conjunction with...
Provided by HyperOffice
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Podcasts
Cloud Computing, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Podcast With Siamak Farah From InfoStreet
Aug 2009
In this podcast, the speakers discuss the InfoStreet solution along with a discussion in to the good, the bad, and the ugly of Cloud Computing. They discuss the many potential pit falls of cloud...
Provided by DABCC
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Podcasts
What#$#s New With Microsoft Virtualization, and Cloud Computing Podcast With David Greschler From Microsoft
Dec 2008
In this podcast, the speakers discuss what's new with Microsoft virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (formally known as Kidaro),...
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Case Studies
Consonus Guarantees Cloud-Based Data Protection and Business Continuity With NetApp Storage
Jul 2010
Consonus Technologies, provides resilient IT infrastructure solutions and data center services for more than 850 customers throughout the United States. Businesses today need top-notch DR and...
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Case Studies
NetApp and Microsoft Technologies Reduce Costs and Fuel Growth for Cloud Provider
Jul 2010
With the tagline "Guardians of Data," Microsoft Gold Certified Partner nGenX has been a pioneer in the on-demand IT services industry. Enterprise-class data protection has historically been too...
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Case Studies
AIX Group Grows 6x Without Adding IT Staff With Lynx Technologies, VMware, and NetApp
Aug 2010
AIX Group, a member of The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc., is a property and casualty specialty insurance business that underwrites and manages unique programs. Their challenge is to create a...
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Case Studies
Fiberlink Boosts Performance, Slashes Capex 50% With Mobility as a Service (MaaS) on NetApp
Mar 2011
Fiberlink Communications creates and develops cloud-based mobility-as-a-service solutions. Fiberlink's MaaS360 cloud-based platform and portal provides enterprises with a single, cost-effective...
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Case Studies
Venyu Builds Data Protection Cloud Services With EchoStor and NetApp
Nov 2010
Venyu is a premier provider of data protection, recovery, and availability services tailored to support the recovery objectives and service levels companies require to stay competitive. Their...
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Case Studies
Japan's Commercial Internet Pioneer Forges New Cloud-Based Services With NetApp Technologies
Dec 2010
Internet Initiative Japan is one of Japan's leading Internet-access and comprehensive network solutions providers. IIJ's customers have expressed the need for adaptability and rapid access to IT...
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Case Studies
SAP Value Prototyping Lab Tackles Growth With NetApp and Fluid Operations Cloud
Aug 2011
SAP is known worldwide for helping companies of all sizes and industries run better. Their challenge is to improve infrastructure and application management in an effort to increase storage...
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