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White Papers
Cost-Efficient Utilization of Public SLA Templates in Autonomic Cloud Markets
Sep 2011
Dynamic and self-adaptable markets are fundamental for the successful implementation of the Cloud computing paradigm where computing resources are provided on demand and dynamically to the...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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White Papers
Cost and Benefit of the SLA Mapping Approach for Defining Standardized Goods in Cloud Computing Markets
Jan 2011
Due to the large variety in computing resources and, consequently, the large number of different types of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), any market for computing resources faces the potential...
Provided by Seoul National University
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White Papers
Faster and Efficient VM Migrations for Improving SLA and ROI in Cloud Infrastructures
Sep 2010
Cloud platforms and infrastructures host several independent users and applications on a shared resource pool with the ability to allocate computing power to users and applications on a per-demand...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Distributed Inter-Domain SLA Negotiation Using Reinforcement Learning
Feb 2011
Applications requiring network Quality of Service (QoS) (e.g. telepresence, cloud computing, etc.) are becoming mainstream. To support their deployment, network operators must automatically...
Provided by TELECOM Bretagne
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White Papers
An Analysis of MOSAIC Ontology for Cloud Resources Annotation
Oct 2011
The easiness of managing and configuring resources and the low cost needed for setup and maintaining Cloud services have made Cloud Computing widespread. Several commercial vendors now offer...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Green Cloud: An Algorithmic Approach
Nov 2010
Cloud computing has opened a new era to a shared IT infrastructure in which large pools of systems are linked together via the internet to provide IT services, such as different utility services...
Provided by Birla Institute of Technology
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White Papers
PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud
Nov 2011
Newly-released web applications often succumb to a "Success Disaster," where overloaded database machines and resulting high response times destroy a previously good user experience....
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Spreadsheet on Cloud - Framework for Learning and Health Management System
Nov 2011
Cloud Computing has caused a paradigm shift in the world of computing. Several use case scenarios have been floating around the programming world in relation to this. Applications such as...
Provided by EuSpRIG
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White Papers
Redundant Wavelets on Graphs and High Dimensional Data Clouds
Nov 2011
In this paper, the authors propose a new redundant wavelet transform applicable to scalar functions defined on high dimensional coordinates, weighted graphs and networks. The proposed transform...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
vFlow: A GUI-Based Tool for Building Batch Applications for Cloud Computing
Nov 2011
In this paper, the authors introduce vFlow - A framework for rapid designing of batch processing applications for Cloud Computing environment. vFlow batch processing system extracts tasks from the...
Provided by City University of New York
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White Papers
Fast Fluid Dynamics on the Single-Chip Cloud Computer
Jun 2011
Fast simulation of incompressible fluid flows is necessary for simulation-based design optimization. Traditional Computational Fluid Dynamics techniques often don't exhibit the necessary...
Provided by Autodesk
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White Papers
Power Aware Load Balancing for Cloud Computing
Oct 2011
With the increased use of local cloud computing architectures, organizations are becoming aware of wasted power consumed by unutilized resources. In this paper, the authors present a load...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
Empowering a Flexible Application Portal With a SOA-Based Grid Job Management Framework
Jan 2009
The complexity of simultaneously providing customized user interfaces and transparent Grid access has led to a situation where current Grid portals tend to either be tightly coupled to specific...
Provided by Umea University
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White Papers
A Barcode Shape Descriptor for Curve Point Cloud Data
Jan 2011
In this paper, the authors present a complete computational pipeline for extracting a compact shape descriptor for curve point cloud data. Their shape descriptor, called a barcode, is based on a...
Provided by Stanford University
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Whitepapers
Avoiding the Accidental SOA Cloud Architecture
Dec 2011
Prior to the hybrid cloud, IT determined how an enterprise infrastructure grew. With the introduction of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), lines of business, such as marketing, sales and logistics,...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Network Implications of Cloud Computing
Nov 2011
Cloud Computing is often described as "Resources accessed via a browser over the Internet." However, this definition has become increasingly insufficient to characterize the breadth of...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard
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White Papers
Data Integrity Proofs in Cloud Storage
Feb 2011
Cloud computing has been envisioned as the de-facto solution to the rising storage costs of IT Enterprises. With the high costs of data storage devices as well as the rapid rate at which data is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Jellyfish: Networking Data Centers, Randomly
May 2011
Data centers today form the backbone of cloud operations. A well provisioned data center network is important to ensure that servers do not face bandwidth bottlenecks to utilization; to isolate...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
Offshore Considerations for Infrastructure Management
Jan 2008
Infrastructure management is increasingly offshored these days. Everest Research Institute predicts that remote infrastructure management will grow to $8.6 billion in the next three years with an...
Provided by Jupitermedia
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White Papers
Service Migration Within the Cloud: Code Mobility in SP2A
Apr 2010
Cloud Computing (CC) is characterized by dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources that are provided as a service over the Internet. To date, no generally agreed scheme for the internal...
Provided by Università degli Studi di Parma
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White Papers
An Efficient Approach to Intelligent Real-time Monitoring Using Ontologies and Hadoop
Apr 2010
This paper describes an approach to how ontologies can be used for modeling of real-time monitoring systems that provide both efficiency and intelligence. An ontology-based framework is described...
Provided by University of Stavanger
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White Papers
Elastic Stream Cloud (ESC): A Stream-Oriented Cloud Computing Implementation for Rich Internet Application
Apr 2010
Recently, a number of cloud computing paradigms have been proposed. The new term of cloud computing is not a new concept, is a long-held dream of computing as a utility. From the view of...
Provided by Peking University
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Case Studies
Innovest Systems Orchestrating Savvis Symphony Solutions to Securely Deliver Innovative Trust and Wealth Management SaaS Solutions
Jun 2010
Innovest was founded in 2000 to provide innovative technology-driven middle- and back-office solutions to trust companies. The challenge of Innovest is to stay on the leading edge of delivering...
Provided by SAVVIS
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Case Studies
The NFL Meets Mobile Computing in the Cloud: A Case Study on the Detachable Compact Application Framework (DCAF)
May 2010
National Football Scouting is a professional scouting service. In past years, results from many of the events at the NFL Scouting Combine were captured on paper and entered into systems at a later...
Provided by Explore Consulting
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Case Studies
College Builds Secure Multitenant Cloud
Mar 2011
Claremont McKenna College challenges were to Increase IT efficiency, Support computing needs in joint science lab, to prepare for disaster recovery. They chose VCE company to overcome these...
Provided by VCE Company
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Podcasts
De-Mystifying the Cloud
Mar 2010
In this podcast, the speakers discuss about Microsoft's latest roadmap for online storage and computing as well as the power of choice with the latest from Microsoft Online Services.
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
TechNet Radio: Microsoft Cloud Services: Data Storage Solutions in the Cloud
May 2010
In this podcast the speakers examine various approaches to storage in the cloud and the significance of practically unlimited storage capacity. The speaker also explains why one should consider...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
TechNet Radio: Microsoft Cloud Services: Business Intelligence in the Cloud
May 2010
In this podcast, the speakers discuss about Business Intelligence (BI) in the cloud and specifically addresses business cases in the financial industry, giving examples from investment banks and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
TechNet Radio: Microsoft Cloud Services: Windows Azure: A Non-Microsoft Perspective
May 2010
In this podcast the speakers were discussing about why he is finding Windows Azure to be an excellent platform for distance learning and developing on PHP. Windows Azure's scalability makes it...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Hardware Assisted Resource Sharing Platform for Personal Cloud
Dec 2009
More and more novel usage models require the capability of resource sharing among different platforms. To achieve a satisfactory efficiency, the authors introduce a specific resource sharing...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Enhancing Computing Power by Exploiting Underutilized Resources in the Community Cloud
Apr 2011
With the advent of cloud computing, organizations tend to buy services from data centers of major cloud vendors. In contrast, community cloud computing as described gives an alternative way to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Specification and Quantitative Analysis of Probabilistic Cloud Deployment Patterns
Aug 2011
Cloud computing is a new technological paradigm offering computing infrastructure, software and platforms as a pay-as-you-go subscription based service. Many potential customer's of cloud services...
Provided by Aston University
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White Papers
Toward Green Cloud Computing
Feb 2011
Cloud computing is emerging as a critical information communication technology to heavily impact the people's daily life in the future. The authors systematically analyze its energy consumption...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Novel Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Computing
Dec 2011
In this paper a novel virtual machine placement mechanism for cloud computing is proposed based on network-aware Virtual Machines (VMs). VMs are widely applied to modern data center for cloud...
Provided by Islamic Azad University
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White Papers
Towards Energy-Aware Autonomic Provisioning for Virtualized Environments
Jun 2009
As energy efficiency and associated costs become key concerns, consolidated and virtualized data centers and clouds are attractive computing platforms for data- and compute-intensive applications....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
The Challenge of Service Level Scalability for the Cloud
Mar 2011
This paper presents a brief overview of the available literature on distributed systems scalability that serves as a justification for presenting some of the most prominent challenges that current...
Provided by Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
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White Papers
Self-Managed Services Conceptual Model in Trustworthy Clouds' Infrastructure
Jan 2011
Current clouds infrastructure do not provide the full potential of automated self-managed services. Cloud infrastructure management are supported by clouds' internal employees and contractors...
Provided by Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)
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White Papers
Profiling-as-a-Service: Adaptive Scalable Resource Profiling for the Cloud in the Cloud
Jun 2011
Run-time profiling of Web-based applications and services is an effective method to aid in the provisioning of required resources, for monitoring server-level objectives, and for detecting...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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White Papers
Dataflow Processing and Optimization on Grid and Cloud Infrastructures
Mar 2009
Complex on-demand data retrieval and processing is a characteristic of several applications and combines the notions of querying & search, information filtering & retrieval, data transformation &...
Provided by University of Athens
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White Papers
Towards Achieving Accountability, Auditability and Trust in Cloud Computing
Apr 2011
The lack of confidence in entrusting sensitive information to cloud Computing Service Providers (CSPs) is one of the primary obstacles to widespread adoption of cloud computing, as reported by a...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: AHS Information Services
Feb 2010
Healing is the primary goal of the Adventist Health System (AHS), a non-profit health care organization run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. AHS wanted to streamline IT infrastructure and...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
A Large Property & Casualty Insurance Organization
Dec 2009
Insurance is often defined as protection against a possible eventuality. It is fitting, then, that this large property and Casualty insurance organization originally purchased virtualization...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
Protecting the Private Cloud With EMC RecoverPoint
Jul 2010
Private cloud deployments enable one to dynamically leverage a virtual infrastructure for data center consolidation - delivering new levels of flexibility, control, and efficiency. But this...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Disaster Avoidance With VMware vSphere and EMC VPLEX
Aug 2010
EMC virtual storage vision breaks down traditional barriers to enable new ways of architecting virtualized data centers. The attendee of this webcast will see how EMC VPLEX and VMware vSphere...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Wondering How to Avoid Application Outages?
Aug 2010
Increasingly, critical business services rely on the availability and performance of essential middleware application components. It's imperative that IT keep middleware and related application...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
30 Minutes to Better Data, Systems and Application Protection: Disaster Recovery: How to Maximize IT Protection and Minimize Downtime
Aug 2010
We all define disasters differently - from accidental or malicious data loss or damage, and unplanned system and application outages, to power loss, fire, flood, earthquakes and hurricanes. No...
Provided by CA
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric (Level 200)
Aug 2010
Windows Azure AppFabric provides Access Control and an Internet-scale service bus. Access Control can authenticate users and claims, authorizing access to web sites and web services. The Service...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: Securing Web Resources Using Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control (Level 300)
Aug 2010
In this webcast, the presenter drills into claims-based identity management, exploring in detail the implementation of a web service that authenticates user claims with Windows Azure AppFabric...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Privacy in the Clouds
May 2008
The new digital ecosystem will also present complex security and privacy challenges. Fundamentally, it will need to provide flexible, user-friendly ways to authenticate users. Without better...
Provided by Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario
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Whitepapers
Key Service Management Processes for Cloud Infrastructures
Feb 2010
Cloud computing has significantly impacted how companies deliver and support applications. On the positive side, cloud computing has the potential to both increase end-user productivity and reduce...
Provided by SAVVIS
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White Papers
Intel Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel Xeon Processor-Based Platforms
Apr 2010
Cloud computing offers a path to greater scalability and lower costs for service providers, infrastructure hosting companies, and large enterprises. Establishing an infrastructure that can provide...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Cloud Computing and the Economics of Enterprise IT
Jun 2010
Enterprise IT departments need to respond with agility to business needs and demand fluctuations, which existing data center architectures cannot achieve. Private cloud computing - highly scalable...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Bridging the IT-Business Alignment Chasm
Oct 2009
The quote above points to the potential for dramatic improvement that can be realized when infrastructure and application teams understand their respective requirements and contributions. Tight...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Flying Blind in the Cloud: The State of Information Governance
Apr 2010
Despite widespread interest in adopting cloud computing technologies, many organizations are "Flying Blind" with respect to making them secure, potentially putting their operations, intellectual...
Provided by Ponemon Institute
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Considerations And Next Steps
Jun 2010
Cloud computing is an important transition and a paradigm shift in IT services delivery - one that promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Global Managed Services Support Specsavers' International Expansion
May 2009
Specsavers is a dynamic, rapidly-growing company that has been voted the UK's most Trusted Optician for the seventh time in a row in the annual Readers Digest survey .they wanted to Implement...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Case Study: O2 Ireland
Dec 2009
Telefónica O2 Ireland is a leading provider of mobile services, with 1.7 million customers. O2 Ireland decided to create a new channel to market in order to compete in a competitive industry. They...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Whose Law Governs the Cloud? (Part III)
Feb 2010
This paper is the last of a three-part series looking at cloud computing from market and legal perspectives. Part I, published in the June 2009 issue of Cyberspace Lawyer, examined the...
Provided by Thomson Reuters
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White Papers
NASA Nebula Cloud Computing Platform
Apr 2010
Nebula is an open-source cloud computing platform that was developed to provide an easily quantifiable and improved alternative to building additional expensive data centers and to provide an...
Provided by NASA
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White Papers
NSF Awards Millions For Cloud Computing Research
May 2009
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced it has awarded nearly $5 million in grants to 14 universities through its Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) program to participate in the IBM/Google...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Cloud Computing for Financial Institutions
Jul 2009
Ever changing IT world has resulted into plethora of alternate delivery models that have enabled business for organizations. Cloud Computing, as touted by many, is not just an alternative delivery...
Provided by HCL
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White Papers
Amazon Enters the Cloud Computing Business
May 2008
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looked at the clock on the instrument panel of his Segway Human Transporter; it was 7:52AM and he knew he would need a little luck to get to his 8:00AM meeting at Amazon's...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Desktop Virtualization & Thin Client Computing
Feb 2010
'Cloud computing' or 'computing in the clouds' is a metaphor for software and desktop virtualization and is often called thin-client computing (Nastu, 2008). The Cloud is a synonym for the whole...
Provided by Emporia State University
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White Papers
Activities in Cloud Computing Standardization
Jan 2010
At its meeting in February 2010, ITU-T's Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG) proposed to establish a Focus Group on cloud computing to identify and study the standards needs in...
Provided by ITU
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White Papers
Multiscale not Multicore: Efficient Heterogeneous Cloud Computing
Mar 2010
In this paper, authors present a vision of the future of heterogeneous cloud computing. Ours is a cleanslate approach, sweeping away decades of accreted system software. They believe the advent of...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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White Papers
Elastic Data and Cloud Computing
Apr 2010
Cloud computing is one of those recklessly abused and overloaded terms that mean different things to different people, eventually serving to confuse more than clarify when used in conversation....
Provided by NorthScale
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White Papers
Sunny Days with Cloud Computing
May 2008
All hearing quite a bit of media chatter about "cloud computing." Sometimes suppliers may use other terms such as "Mesh computing" or "Elastic Cloud Computing." All of these terms really boil down...
Provided by Kusnetzky Group
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White Papers
Capgemini Brings Cloud Computing and Services Into Reality for the Organization
Mar 2010
Capgemini Group - together with Sogeti (Capgemini Group subsidiary) - today announced the launch of a new suite of services that will help clients realize the business benefits of cloud computing...
Provided by Capgemini
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Gathers Steam With Mobile Devices
Sep 2009
The outlook for the wireless industry is getting cloudier. Consumers have tapped into cloud computing technology for years: sending messages via Hotmail, uploading photos to Facebook or editing a...
Provided by PhysOrg.com
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White Papers
Open Cirrus: A Global Cloud Computing Testbed
Mar 2010
Open Cirrus is a cloud computing testbed that, unlike existing alternatives, federates distributed data centers. It aims to spur innovation in systems and applications research and catalyze...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Confidence in the Cloud: Five Ways to Capitalize With Symantec
Nov 2009
Cloud computing is gaining significant traction as a new IT delivery model with potential business and financial benefits. Because cloud computing is still relatively new, organizations are...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
Reaching for the Clouds: Achieving the Business Benefits of Cloud Computing
May 2010
Cloud computing is driving a great deal of IT investment. Concur Technologies embraced BSM for Cloud Computing as they were facing many problems. Theirs first problem was users must have a...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
AlertBoot Saves $200,000 Per Year With Cloud Solution From Dell
Jun 2010
AlertBoot sought to find the perfect infrastructure to host its disk encryption product and free up engineers to focus on research and development, innovation and marketing support. As a solution...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Rogers Reduces Cost of Desktop "Communication" and Management With Dell KACE Virtual Appliance
Jun 2010
The complexity of tying 450 remote sites together made several critical IT maintenance tasks difficult to accomplish. Two IT staff members tracked IT investments at each store using manual...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Akamai Solutions for Cloud Computing: Accelerate, Scale and Fortify Applications and Platforms Running in the Cloud
Jun 2009
Cloud computing promises more agile, efficient, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions for building, scaling and using applications and services. Inherent to the Cloud, however, are the...
Provided by Akamai Technologies
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Case Studies
Emerson Supports Multiple Business Units With Flexible Documentation and Training Tool
Jul 2010
Emerson, a global technology and engineering company, uses dozens of applications worldwide across its business units, and must ensure a productive workforce that can quickly get up-to-speed on...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Mapping Service Increases Performance by 80 Percent With Global Data Center Network
Jun 2010
Microsoft Corporation operates a content delivery network for its Internet-based services. Bing Maps took advantage of the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network, to cache and deliver content at...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Software Developers Offer Quick Processing of Compute-Heavy Tasks With Cloud Services
Jul 2010
InterGrid is an on-demand computing provider that offers cost-effective solutions to complex computing problems. While many customers need support for months at a time, InterGrid saw an...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Airport Authority Consolidates Infrastructure, Drives Initiatives With Systems Architect
Jul 2010
Aena (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegacion Aerea) has 12,000 employees and provides both the infrastructure and air-traffic control for the more than 47 airports of Spain. In an effort to reduce IT...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Fiserv Evaluates Cloud Technologies as It Enhances Key Financial Services Offerings
Jul 2010
As a solution provider to more than 16,000 clients worldwide, Fiserv continually strives to enhance its solutions - a broad range of financial services technologies, including digital payment...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
vFlow: A GUI-Based Tool for Building Batch Applications for Cloud Computing
Nov 2011
In this paper, the authors introduce vFlow - A framework for rapid designing of batch processing applications for Cloud Computing environment. vFlow batch processing system extracts tasks from the...
Provided by City University of New York
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White Papers
Fast Fluid Dynamics on the Single-Chip Cloud Computer
Jun 2011
Fast simulation of incompressible fluid flows is necessary for simulation-based design optimization. Traditional Computational Fluid Dynamics techniques often don't exhibit the necessary...
Provided by Autodesk
-
White Papers
Power Aware Load Balancing for Cloud Computing
Oct 2011
With the increased use of local cloud computing architectures, organizations are becoming aware of wasted power consumed by unutilized resources. In this paper, the authors present a load...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Empowering a Flexible Application Portal With a SOA-Based Grid Job Management Framework
Jan 2009
The complexity of simultaneously providing customized user interfaces and transparent Grid access has led to a situation where current Grid portals tend to either be tightly coupled to specific...
Provided by Umea University
-
White Papers
A Barcode Shape Descriptor for Curve Point Cloud Data
Jan 2011
In this paper, the authors present a complete computational pipeline for extracting a compact shape descriptor for curve point cloud data. Their shape descriptor, called a barcode, is based on a...
Provided by Stanford University
-
Whitepapers
Avoiding the Accidental SOA Cloud Architecture
Dec 2011
Prior to the hybrid cloud, IT determined how an enterprise infrastructure grew. With the introduction of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), lines of business, such as marketing, sales and logistics,...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Network Implications of Cloud Computing
Nov 2011
Cloud Computing is often described as "Resources accessed via a browser over the Internet." However, this definition has become increasingly insufficient to characterize the breadth of...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard
-
White Papers
Data Integrity Proofs in Cloud Storage
Feb 2011
Cloud computing has been envisioned as the de-facto solution to the rising storage costs of IT Enterprises. With the high costs of data storage devices as well as the rapid rate at which data is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Jellyfish: Networking Data Centers, Randomly
May 2011
Data centers today form the backbone of cloud operations. A well provisioned data center network is important to ensure that servers do not face bandwidth bottlenecks to utilization; to isolate...
Provided by University of Illinois
-
White Papers
Offshore Considerations for Infrastructure Management
Jan 2008
Infrastructure management is increasingly offshored these days. Everest Research Institute predicts that remote infrastructure management will grow to $8.6 billion in the next three years with an...
Provided by Jupitermedia
-
White Papers
Service Migration Within the Cloud: Code Mobility in SP2A
Apr 2010
Cloud Computing (CC) is characterized by dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources that are provided as a service over the Internet. To date, no generally agreed scheme for the internal...
Provided by Università degli Studi di Parma
-
White Papers
An Efficient Approach to Intelligent Real-time Monitoring Using Ontologies and Hadoop
Apr 2010
This paper describes an approach to how ontologies can be used for modeling of real-time monitoring systems that provide both efficiency and intelligence. An ontology-based framework is described...
Provided by University of Stavanger
-
White Papers
Elastic Stream Cloud (ESC): A Stream-Oriented Cloud Computing Implementation for Rich Internet Application
Apr 2010
Recently, a number of cloud computing paradigms have been proposed. The new term of cloud computing is not a new concept, is a long-held dream of computing as a utility. From the view of...
Provided by Peking University
-
Case Studies
Innovest Systems Orchestrating Savvis Symphony Solutions to Securely Deliver Innovative Trust and Wealth Management SaaS Solutions
Jun 2010
Innovest was founded in 2000 to provide innovative technology-driven middle- and back-office solutions to trust companies. The challenge of Innovest is to stay on the leading edge of delivering...
Provided by SAVVIS
-
Case Studies
The NFL Meets Mobile Computing in the Cloud: A Case Study on the Detachable Compact Application Framework (DCAF)
May 2010
National Football Scouting is a professional scouting service. In past years, results from many of the events at the NFL Scouting Combine were captured on paper and entered into systems at a later...
Provided by Explore Consulting
-
Case Studies
College Builds Secure Multitenant Cloud
Mar 2011
Claremont McKenna College challenges were to Increase IT efficiency, Support computing needs in joint science lab, to prepare for disaster recovery. They chose VCE company to overcome these...
Provided by VCE Company
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Podcasts
De-Mystifying the Cloud
Mar 2010
In this podcast, the speakers discuss about Microsoft's latest roadmap for online storage and computing as well as the power of choice with the latest from Microsoft Online Services.
Provided by Microsoft
-
Podcasts
TechNet Radio: Microsoft Cloud Services: Data Storage Solutions in the Cloud
May 2010
In this podcast the speakers examine various approaches to storage in the cloud and the significance of practically unlimited storage capacity. The speaker also explains why one should consider...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Podcasts
TechNet Radio: Microsoft Cloud Services: Business Intelligence in the Cloud
May 2010
In this podcast, the speakers discuss about Business Intelligence (BI) in the cloud and specifically addresses business cases in the financial industry, giving examples from investment banks and...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Podcasts
TechNet Radio: Microsoft Cloud Services: Windows Azure: A Non-Microsoft Perspective
May 2010
In this podcast the speakers were discussing about why he is finding Windows Azure to be an excellent platform for distance learning and developing on PHP. Windows Azure's scalability makes it...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Hardware Assisted Resource Sharing Platform for Personal Cloud
Dec 2009
More and more novel usage models require the capability of resource sharing among different platforms. To achieve a satisfactory efficiency, the authors introduce a specific resource sharing...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
Enhancing Computing Power by Exploiting Underutilized Resources in the Community Cloud
Apr 2011
With the advent of cloud computing, organizations tend to buy services from data centers of major cloud vendors. In contrast, community cloud computing as described gives an alternative way to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Specification and Quantitative Analysis of Probabilistic Cloud Deployment Patterns
Aug 2011
Cloud computing is a new technological paradigm offering computing infrastructure, software and platforms as a pay-as-you-go subscription based service. Many potential customer's of cloud services...
Provided by Aston University
-
White Papers
Toward Green Cloud Computing
Feb 2011
Cloud computing is emerging as a critical information communication technology to heavily impact the people's daily life in the future. The authors systematically analyze its energy consumption...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
A Novel Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Computing
Dec 2011
In this paper a novel virtual machine placement mechanism for cloud computing is proposed based on network-aware Virtual Machines (VMs). VMs are widely applied to modern data center for cloud...
Provided by Islamic Azad University
-
White Papers
Towards Energy-Aware Autonomic Provisioning for Virtualized Environments
Jun 2009
As energy efficiency and associated costs become key concerns, consolidated and virtualized data centers and clouds are attractive computing platforms for data- and compute-intensive applications....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
The Challenge of Service Level Scalability for the Cloud
Mar 2011
This paper presents a brief overview of the available literature on distributed systems scalability that serves as a justification for presenting some of the most prominent challenges that current...
Provided by Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
-
White Papers
Self-Managed Services Conceptual Model in Trustworthy Clouds' Infrastructure
Jan 2011
Current clouds infrastructure do not provide the full potential of automated self-managed services. Cloud infrastructure management are supported by clouds' internal employees and contractors...
Provided by Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)
-
White Papers
Profiling-as-a-Service: Adaptive Scalable Resource Profiling for the Cloud in the Cloud
Jun 2011
Run-time profiling of Web-based applications and services is an effective method to aid in the provisioning of required resources, for monitoring server-level objectives, and for detecting...
Provided by University of British Columbia
-
White Papers
Dataflow Processing and Optimization on Grid and Cloud Infrastructures
Mar 2009
Complex on-demand data retrieval and processing is a characteristic of several applications and combines the notions of querying & search, information filtering & retrieval, data transformation &...
Provided by University of Athens
-
White Papers
Towards Achieving Accountability, Auditability and Trust in Cloud Computing
Apr 2011
The lack of confidence in entrusting sensitive information to cloud Computing Service Providers (CSPs) is one of the primary obstacles to widespread adoption of cloud computing, as reported by a...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard
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White Papers
TrustCloud: A Framework for Accountability and Trust in Cloud Computing
Apr 2011
The key barrier to widespread uptake of cloud computing is the lack of trust in clouds by potential customers. While preventive controls for security and privacy are actively researched, there is...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard
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Personal Development on Web2.0 Cloud
Sep 2011
Networked personal spaces being created by people very often impact the quality of their lives, their applicability, socialization and credit. The paper implements the term Personal Credit...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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A Taxonomic Analysis of Cloud Computing
May 2011
The cloud computing field had many advances in the last years and new classifications proliferated in a discretionary way. Despite some attempts, there is still no agreed taxonomy. This paper...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Policy Generation Framework for Large-Scale Storage Infrastructures
Oct 2010
Cloud computing is gaining acceptance among mainstream technology users. Storage cloud providers often employ Storage Area Networks (SANs) to provide elasticity, rapid adaptability to changing...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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IT-Enabled Integration of Renewables: A Concept for the Smart Power Grid
Sep 2010
The wide utilisation of information and communication technologies is hoped to enable a more efficient and sustainable operation of electric power grids. This paper analyzes the benefits of smart...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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A Formal Approach to the Verification of Networks on Chip
Feb 2009
The current technology allows the integration on a single die of complex Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) that are composed of manufactured blocks (IPs), interconnected through specialized Networks on Chip...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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Pc-Cluster Based Storage System Architecture for Cloud Storage
Nov 2011
Design and architecture of cloud storage system plays a vital role in cloud computing infrastructure in order to improve the storage capacity as well as cost effectiveness. Usually cloud storage...
Provided by University of Computer Studies
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Stochastic Markov Model Approach for Efficient Virtual Machines Scheduling on Private Cloud
Nov 2011
Cloud computing is deployed a large set of virtualized computing resources in different infrastructures and various development platforms. One of the significant issues in cloud computing system...
Provided by University of Computer Studies
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A Genetic Programming Approach to Reconfigure a Morphological Image Processing Architecture
Sep 2010
Mathematical morphology supplies powerful tools for low-level image analysis. Many applications in computer vision require dedicated hardware for real-time execution. The design of morphological...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
