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Solve Business Problems With Mass Customization Software
Jan 2012
Computers are capable of almost anything, but they still need programmers to tell them how to do nearly everything. Custom software creates highly specialized applications with functions to meet...
Provided by Xeo Software
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White Papers
Analysis of Explanatory and Predictive Architectures and the Relevance in Explaining the Adoption of IT in SMEs
May 2011
This paper critiques the explanatory and predictive architectures of six prominent innovation adoption theories with a view to unraveling their individual capabilities in providing lenses to the...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Rhizoma: A Runtime for Self-Deploying, Self-Managing Overlays
Aug 2009
The trend towards cloud and utility computing infrastructures raises challenges not only for application development, but also for management: diverse resources, changing resource availability,...
Provided by University of Washington
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White Papers
Performance Estimation for the Exploration of CPU-Accelerator Architectures
Jun 2010
In this paper, the authors present an approach for studying the design space when interfacing reconfigurable accelerators with a CPU. For this purpose they introduce a framework based on the LLVM...
Provided by University of Paderborn
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White Papers
Communication Performance Characterization for Reconfigurable Accelerator Design on the XD1000
Jul 2010
Providing customized memory architectures is key for achieving high-performance with reconfigurable accelerators. Since reconfigurable computers provide limited possibilities for customizing the...
Provided by University of Paderborn
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White Papers
Framework for Product Lifecycle Management Integration in Small and Medium Enterprises Networks
Jan 2012
In order to improve the performance of extended enterprises, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) must be integrated into the extended networks. This integration must be carried out on several...
Provided by CAD Solutions
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White Papers
A New Remote Data Integrity Checking Scheme for Cloud Storage
Jan 2012
Cloud storage services enable user to enjoy high-capacity and high-quality storage with less overhead, but it also brings many potential threats, for example, data integrality, data availability...
Provided by International Association for Cryptologic Research
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White Papers
Efficient and Adaptive Distributed Skyline Computation
Apr 2010
Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring functions. In...
Provided by University of Athens
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White Papers
Trajectory Retrieval With Latent Semantic Analysis
Mar 2008
The problem of trajectory similarity has been recently attracted research interest considerably, due to its importance in diverse fields. In this paper, the authors study trajectory similarity by...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Comparative Analysis of Low-Latency on Different Bandwidth and Geographical Locations While Using Cloud Based Applications
Jan 2012
Cloud computing, a approach of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided as shared assorted services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS), metered by use, to customers using...
Provided by International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (IJAET)
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White Papers
CampusCloud: Aggregating Universities Computing Resources in Ad-Hoc Clouds
Feb 2012
Cloud Computing has recently emerged as a new computing paradigm based on the concept of virtualization with the goal of creating a shared and highly scalable computing infrastructure from...
Provided by The Second International Conference on Communications and Information Technology
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White Papers
Cloud Computing and Grid Computing for the Smart and Green Information Systems
Feb 2012
The increased availability of high speed internet and corporate IP connections is enabling the delivery of new network based services which include processing jobs, storage and application based....
Provided by The Second International Conference on Communications and Information Technology
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White Papers
Challenges of Using Consensus Protocol in Cloud Computing
Feb 2012
Since, more aspects of work and personal life move online and the Internet becomes a platform for virtual human society, a new paradigm of large-scale distributed computing has emerged which is...
Provided by The Second International Conference on Communications and Information Technology
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White Papers
Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing
Oct 2011
Cloud providers possessing large quantities of spare capacity must either incentivize clients to purchase it or suffer losses. Amazon is the first cloud provider to address this challenge, by...
Provided by Israel Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Cloud Infrastructure Service Management - A Review
Mar 2012
The new era of computing called Cloud Computing allows the user to access the cloud services dynamically over the Internet wherever and whenever needed. Cloud consists of data and resources; and...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Cloud Computing as an Emerging Paradigm
Jan 2012
The emergence of cloud computing provides many opportunities for academia, the Information Technology (IT) industry and the global economy as an information technology revolution. Compared to...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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White Papers
Clearing the Clouds
Mar 2012
Emerging scale-out workloads require extensive amounts of computational resources. However, data centers using modern server hardware face physical constraints in space and power, limiting further...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Architectural Framework for Generic Modeling and Diagramming in the Cloud
Dec 2011
This paper is aimed at presenting a concept of a flexible diagramming framework for building engineering and educational applications. The framework was designed to serve as a platform for online...
Provided by The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC)
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White Papers
Open Source in Cloud Computing
Mar 2012
Cloud computing is emerging as the latest BUZZ word in Information Technology. There is going to be a great shift from traditional network computing to cloud computing. The features of Cloud...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications
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White Papers
People and Skills: A Potential Risk in ICT Infrastructure Management
Jul 2011
This paper describes an approach used to reveal dynamics operating in supply of, and demand for, skilled Information and Communications Technology (ICT) employees. The impacts of changing...
Provided by Utkal University
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White Papers
Comparative Study of Scalability and Availability in Cloud and Utility Computing
Dec 2011
Cloud computing and Utility computing paradigms are two resource sharing architectures. The vivid and multi-institutional natures of these environments instigate different challenges in context of...
Provided by Journal of Computing
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White Papers
Architecting the Cloud: Prospects and Problems
Mar 2012
Highly-available and scalable web hosting can be a complex and expensive venture. Traditional scalable web architectures have not only needed to implement complex solutions to ensure high levels...
Provided by IRPN Press
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White Papers
Cloud Computing for Academic Environment
Feb 2012
In traditional computing, the authors install software programs on system (computer) update the hardware as per their requirements. Documents they create or save are stored in their computer....
Provided by IRPN Press
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White Papers
Reducing Total Power Consumption Method in Cloud Computing Environments
Mar 2012
The widespread use of cloud computing services is expected to increase the power consumed by ICT equipment in cloud computing environments rapidly. This paper first identifies the need of the...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Availability Metrics for Cloud Vibrant Behaviour With Benchmarks Influence on Diverse Facets
Jan 2012
Cloud computing is the record significant encroachment used in emergent industries and additional miniature and huge sized corporations, so the demand on accessing the quality of cloud...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Case Studies
T-Systems: Hosting Provider Aims to Fix 60 Percent of IT Incidents With Automation Solution
Apr 2012
T-Systems was eager to adopt cloud computing so that it could aggressively drive down IT costs and improve service availability. To create a cloud computing environment as quickly as possible,...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Housing Service Delivers New Features Faster With Hyper-V-Based Cloud Solution
Mar 2012
The customer is a national online apartment search service. To stay competitive, it needs to roll out new services quickly and deliver outstanding performance for approximately 6 million visitors...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
DenizBank: Bank Delivers IT as a Service Using Private Cloud Model, Avoids $12 Million Expense
Mar 2012
DenizBank, a fast-growing bank in Turkey, constantly needed new technology to support its growth - but data center costs were spiraling upward. To reduce costs and speed the delivery of IT...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
NetBenefit: Hosting Provider Reduces Costs 40 Percent, Provisions Servers Faster With Cloud Services
Mar 2012
NetBenefit is a managed hosting provider in the United Kingdom that continuously refreshes its technology to stay competitive. It recently upgraded to Microsoft System Center 2012, so that it...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Government of Albania: Albania Standardizes Government IT With Cloud Services, Lifts Productivity 70 Percent
Feb 2012
The ministries and agencies of the Albanian government were making great strides in their use of technology - but that became a problem. A growing number of decentralized applications ran on a...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Walsh Group: Construction Firm Builds On-Demand IT Infrastructure With Private Cloud Computing
Feb 2012
Although, The Walsh Group specializes in building big things, it wanted to shrink its data center. The Chicago, Illinois - based builder of highways, skyscrapers, and subways sought to reduce...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Hostway: Hosting Provider Saves $100,000, Increases Reliability With Cloud Management Solution
Nov 2011
In 2010, hosting provider Hostway used Microsoft virtualization software to launch a line of cloud computing services. Before it could expand its cloud business, it wanted a more comprehensive...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Redynamics Asia: IT Provider Adopts Private Cloud Model to Reduce Costs by $1.5 Million, Grow Faster
Nov 2011
Redynamics Asia is a fast-growing IT services provider that wanted to remove the technology barriers that limited business growth. The constant demand for more server and desktop computers...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Progel IT: IT Firm Uses Cloud Management Solution to Boost Agility, Customer Service
Nov 2011
Progel IT, a managed services provider in Italy, wanted better management tools to build private clouds in its virtualized development environment and to automate management of its production...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Uni Micro: ISV Uses Virtualization Solution to Speed Development, Optimize Cloud Investments
Nov 2011
Uni Micro, a Norway-based software development firm, needed to increase its capacity to respond to new market opportunities. After successfully using Microsoft virtualization tools to trim...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Lionbridge Technologies: Global Translation Provider Simplifies Private Cloud Administration With Portal
Jul 2010
Lionbridge translates and adapts technology products and web content to meet the linguistic and technical needs of clients around the world. Lionbridge used server virtualization to simplify its...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Stanley Consultants: Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Enable Exchange Consolidation and Serverless Offices for Global Consulting Company
Jul 2009
Stanley Consultants is a worldwide provider of engineering, environmental and construction services. Stanley Consultants needed to optimize its email performance in order to help its members...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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Case Studies
Cloud One Delivers IBM Rational Development Tools in the Cloud Using an Elastic, Highly Scalable, and Economical SaaS Model, Powered by VMware
Oct 2011
CloudOne is a market leader that provides business customers with a full set of IBM Rational tools for development in the cloud. CloudOne is a SaaS provider that enables businesses to deploy IBM...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Improving Contrast in Random Grids Based Visual Secret Sharing
Jan 2012
In the existing random grids based (n, n) Visual Secret Sharing (VSS) schemes, decryption is done with the help of human visual system by stacking the cipher grids. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by Science and Engineering Research Support soCiety
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White Papers
Clustering Technique to Interpret Numerical Weather Prediction Output Products for Forecast of Cloudburst
Jan 2012
With the advent of digital computers and their continuous increasing processing power, the 'Numerical Weather Prediction' (NWP) models which solve a close set of equations of atmospheric model,...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Cisco Wide Area Application Services Optimizes Application Delivery From the Cloud
Jan 2010
The adoption of cloud-based computing and applications promises to improve the agility, efficiency, and cost effectiveness of IT operations required to provision, scale, and deliver applications...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
New Efforts for ProjectWEB to Be Business Infrastructure
Apr 2010
Since its introduction in 1998, ProjectWEB, Fujitsu's in-house knowledge management tool has played an essential role in Fujitsu's systems engineering work. Recently, increasing numbers of...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Model-Driven Application Deployment for Cloud Computing Environments
Jan 2010
The accepted best practice for creating virtual machine images for cloud computing environments is to create a golden master image that is then replicated for each virtual machine instance that is...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
On the Move Creating a Culture of Business Growth
Jan 2010
As the global economic recovery slowly gathers pace, many companies remain focused on preventing further financial losses rather than ensuring future gains. They simply ducked for cover during the...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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Webcasts
Designing a Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan for Your SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure
Feb 2010
What infrastructure plan would be complete without understanding how to recover from a catastrophic occurrence? This webcast shows how to design the SharePoint infrastructure to become as...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and Intel vPro Technology Demonstration
Feb 2008
The presenter of this webcast demonstrates the Intel vPro integration for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2.
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
System Center Operations Manager to BMC Remedy Integration Pack Demo
Feb 2010
The presenter builds a point-to-point integration between Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and BMC Remedy. By following this demonstration one will be able to monitor Operations Manager...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
How Cloud Service Consumers Manage and Govern Cloud-Based Applications
Apr 2010
If the organization is like most others, one is evaluating the cloud architecture to understand how to gain the benefits of consuming cloud services. Whether one plans to consume cloud services in...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
TechNet Simulcast: The Next Wave: Windows Azure
Mar 2010
The future of highly available, high-performance, secure, dynamically scalable, hosted computing is here. It's Microsoft's new online service computing platform: Windows Azure. The presenter will...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Radio: Microsoft Cloud Services: Windows Azure in Education
Apr 2010
The United States' current focus on education and accountability from district to state and to the national level, calls for new solutions that allow collaboration, deep reporting capabilities,...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
The Journey to the Cloud: An Analyst's Perspective
Apr 2010
The presenter of this webcast discusses the state of the industry today in virtualization and cloud computing. The presenter covers in particular the challenges and opportunities that businesses...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
How Microsoft Secures the Cloud Infrastructure
Apr 2010
The attendee of this webcast will learn about how Microsoft secures its cloud infrastructure and take away some best practices for the organization moving to the cloud.
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Microsoft IT Venture Integration Team Uses Strategic Acquisition Process
Apr 2010
To help address complexities in integrating acquisitions, the Venture Integration team in Microsoft IT developed a strategic playbook that breaks the IT integration process into distinct phases....
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Automating Disaster Recovery in Virtual Environments
Apr 2010
As virtual data centers drive higher levels of consolidation and protection, replication for disaster recovery becomes a critical part of any virtualization strategy. The attendee will hear about...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Protecting Business-Critical Applications During a Disaster
Apr 2010
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) delivers an industry first in the coordination and orchestration of disaster planning and mitigation for the virtual infrastructure - enabling to meet the...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Create an Architecture and Roadmap for Your Private Cloud
May 2010
The private cloud vision has captured the attention of enterprise IT leaders and strategists because it promises unprecedented economies of scale and dramatically improved business agility. The...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Business Insights Webcast: Why Microsoft Has the Leading Cloud Solutions (Level 100)
May 2010
This webcast is intended for IT decision makers who want to hear the Microsoft cloud computing story and understand the benefits for bringing their business to the cloud. Microsoft delivers a...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
IT Manager Webcast: IT Manager Community Chat With Kevin Remde: Collaboration Online: Windows Azure (Level 200)
Apr 2010
The attendee of this webcast will learn how Windows Azure can help the business adjust to changing conditions, innovate, and stay competitive in the market. By taking advantage of a combination of...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Service Level Management: A CA Service Management Process Map
Jan 2010
The main objective of Service Level Management is to build and maintain a customer oriented focus, moving away from traditional based thinking in "Systems" to "Service" based thinking. This often...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Service Portfolio Management: Manage IT for Business Value
Feb 2010
Years of acquiring and managing IT from a problem-fix and techno-speak perspective put the technology function at odds with what business customers expect - demonstrable business value. Business...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Cloudy With a Chance Of... Great Service!: Fair Weather in the Cloud Requires Management of the Service Value Chain
Feb 2010
With the evolution of the cloud-connected enterprise, Service Value Chain Management becomes a crucial component of success. Now that multiple service providers - whether from within the cloud,...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Computing in the Cloud
Oct 2009
Cloud computing has become a very hot term in the last few years, but a clear description of what it is, what it can do, and why companies might use it is often difficult to find. The concept and...
Provided by Modelbenders
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White Papers
Controlling Data in the Cloud: Outsourcing Computation Without Outsourcing Control
Nov 2009
Cloud computing is clearly one of today's most enticing technology areas due, at least in part, to its cost-efficiency and flexibility. However, despite the surge in activity and interest, there...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Cloud Computing for the Sciences
Jun 2009
What exactly is cloud computing, and how is it important to science and engineering? This simple-looking question turns out to be hard to answer. According to Wikipedia, "Cloud computing is a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Searching for SNPs With Cloud Computing
Nov 2009
As DNA sequencing outpaces improvements in computer speed, there is a critical need to accelerate tasks like alignment and SNP calling. Crossbow is a cloud-computing software tool that combines...
Provided by BioMed Central
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White Papers
Clouded in Uncertainty - The Legal Pitfalls of Cloud Computing
Sep 2008
Business leaders are becoming more open to the idea of buying IT as a service, rather than owning infrastructure. The enticing prospect of releasing the enterprise from the shackles of buying and...
Provided by Incisive Media Investments
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White Papers
Cloud Computing - A Hot Topic in 2010 When Cost Reduction Is on Everyone's Mind
Feb 2010
Cloud computing, is an emerging computing technology that allows clients to access, via the Internet, a wide array of data and software stored remotely on central servers owned and operated by a...
Provided by Phillips & Reiter
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White Papers
The Case for Cloud Computing
Mar 2009
Cloud computing doesn't yet have a standard definition, but a good working description of it is to say that clouds, or clusters of distributed computers, provide on-demand resources and services...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
The Cloud or the Mist?
Sep 2009
This paper will discuss the potential security risks of storing information in the cloud with respect to malware. It will explore whether malware can infiltrate the cloud, what effects it can...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Forecast: Improved Economy in the Cloud: An Introduction to Cloud Computing in Government
Mar 2010
Just as cable companies offer consumers a range of services - basic cable packages, premium channels, and pay-per-view - cloud computing brings to government flexible choices about computing...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
The Utility of Cloud Computing as a New Pricing - And Consumption - Model for Information Technology
Nov 2009
This paper provides the reader with a look at the cloud computing concept and its likely impact on information technology. It begins with a look at how cloud computing has rapidly evolved,...
Provided by Southeastern Louisiana University
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Today and Tomorrow
Feb 2009
During the past few years, cloud computing has become a key IT buzzword. Although the definition of cloud computing is still "Cloudy", the trade press and bloggers label many vendors as cloud...
Provided by Journal of Object Technology (JOT)
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White Papers
Decentralized Overlay for Federation of Enterprise Clouds
Jan 2010
This paper describes Aneka-Federation, a decentralized and distributed system that combines enterprise Clouds, overlay networking, and structured peer-to-peer techniques to create scalable...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Minimizing Execution Costs When Using Globally Distributed Cloud Services
Jan 2010
Cloud computing is an emerging technology that allows users to utilize on-demand computation, storage, data and services from around the world. However, Cloud service providers charge users for...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Whitepapers
What's Inside the Cloud?: An Architectural Map of the Cloud Landscape
Feb 2009
Cloud computing is emerging as a model in support of "Everything-as-a-Service" (XaaS). Virtualized physical resources, virtualized infrastructure, as well as virtualized middleware platforms and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Exploiting Non-Dedicated Resources for Cloud Computing
Nov 2009
Popular web services and applications such as Google Apps, DropBox, and Go.Pc introduce a wasteful imbalance of processing resources. Each host operated by a provider serves hundreds to thousands...
Provided by Zuse Institute Berlin
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White Papers
Towards a Cloud Computing Research Agenda
Apr 2009
The 2008 LADIS workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems brought together leaders from the commercial cloud computing community with researchers working on a variety of topics in distributed...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
A Unified Execution Model for Cloud Computing
Oct 2009
This paper presents the design goals and architecture for a Unified Execution Model (UEM) for cloud computing and clusters. The UEM combines interfaces for logical provisioning and distributed...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: An Overview
Jun 2009
Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and others have built large, purpose-built architectures to support their applications and taught the rest of the world how to do massively scalable architectures to support...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
The Emerging Confluence of BPM and Cloud Computing: What Does It Mean for BPM Adoption and Success?
Mar 2010
Cloud computing offers many advantages for BPM adoption and would help in removing some of the key challenges that have hindered BPM success. The goal of enterprise BPM and inter?]organization...
Provided by Virtusa
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White Papers
A New Remote Data Integrity Checking Scheme for Cloud Storage
Jan 2012
Cloud storage services enable user to enjoy high-capacity and high-quality storage with less overhead, but it also brings many potential threats, for example, data integrality, data availability...
Provided by International Association for Cryptologic Research
-
White Papers
Efficient and Adaptive Distributed Skyline Computation
Apr 2010
Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring functions. In...
Provided by University of Athens
-
White Papers
Trajectory Retrieval With Latent Semantic Analysis
Mar 2008
The problem of trajectory similarity has been recently attracted research interest considerably, due to its importance in diverse fields. In this paper, the authors study trajectory similarity by...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Comparative Analysis of Low-Latency on Different Bandwidth and Geographical Locations While Using Cloud Based Applications
Jan 2012
Cloud computing, a approach of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided as shared assorted services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS), metered by use, to customers using...
Provided by International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (IJAET)
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White Papers
CampusCloud: Aggregating Universities Computing Resources in Ad-Hoc Clouds
Feb 2012
Cloud Computing has recently emerged as a new computing paradigm based on the concept of virtualization with the goal of creating a shared and highly scalable computing infrastructure from...
Provided by The Second International Conference on Communications and Information Technology
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing and Grid Computing for the Smart and Green Information Systems
Feb 2012
The increased availability of high speed internet and corporate IP connections is enabling the delivery of new network based services which include processing jobs, storage and application based....
Provided by The Second International Conference on Communications and Information Technology
-
White Papers
Challenges of Using Consensus Protocol in Cloud Computing
Feb 2012
Since, more aspects of work and personal life move online and the Internet becomes a platform for virtual human society, a new paradigm of large-scale distributed computing has emerged which is...
Provided by The Second International Conference on Communications and Information Technology
-
White Papers
Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing
Oct 2011
Cloud providers possessing large quantities of spare capacity must either incentivize clients to purchase it or suffer losses. Amazon is the first cloud provider to address this challenge, by...
Provided by Israel Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Cloud Infrastructure Service Management - A Review
Mar 2012
The new era of computing called Cloud Computing allows the user to access the cloud services dynamically over the Internet wherever and whenever needed. Cloud consists of data and resources; and...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing as an Emerging Paradigm
Jan 2012
The emergence of cloud computing provides many opportunities for academia, the Information Technology (IT) industry and the global economy as an information technology revolution. Compared to...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
-
White Papers
Clearing the Clouds
Mar 2012
Emerging scale-out workloads require extensive amounts of computational resources. However, data centers using modern server hardware face physical constraints in space and power, limiting further...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Architectural Framework for Generic Modeling and Diagramming in the Cloud
Dec 2011
This paper is aimed at presenting a concept of a flexible diagramming framework for building engineering and educational applications. The framework was designed to serve as a platform for online...
Provided by The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC)
-
White Papers
Open Source in Cloud Computing
Mar 2012
Cloud computing is emerging as the latest BUZZ word in Information Technology. There is going to be a great shift from traditional network computing to cloud computing. The features of Cloud...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications
-
White Papers
People and Skills: A Potential Risk in ICT Infrastructure Management
Jul 2011
This paper describes an approach used to reveal dynamics operating in supply of, and demand for, skilled Information and Communications Technology (ICT) employees. The impacts of changing...
Provided by Utkal University
-
White Papers
Comparative Study of Scalability and Availability in Cloud and Utility Computing
Dec 2011
Cloud computing and Utility computing paradigms are two resource sharing architectures. The vivid and multi-institutional natures of these environments instigate different challenges in context of...
Provided by Journal of Computing
-
White Papers
Architecting the Cloud: Prospects and Problems
Mar 2012
Highly-available and scalable web hosting can be a complex and expensive venture. Traditional scalable web architectures have not only needed to implement complex solutions to ensure high levels...
Provided by IRPN Press
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing for Academic Environment
Feb 2012
In traditional computing, the authors install software programs on system (computer) update the hardware as per their requirements. Documents they create or save are stored in their computer....
Provided by IRPN Press
-
White Papers
Reducing Total Power Consumption Method in Cloud Computing Environments
Mar 2012
The widespread use of cloud computing services is expected to increase the power consumed by ICT equipment in cloud computing environments rapidly. This paper first identifies the need of the...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
-
White Papers
Availability Metrics for Cloud Vibrant Behaviour With Benchmarks Influence on Diverse Facets
Jan 2012
Cloud computing is the record significant encroachment used in emergent industries and additional miniature and huge sized corporations, so the demand on accessing the quality of cloud...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Case Studies
T-Systems: Hosting Provider Aims to Fix 60 Percent of IT Incidents With Automation Solution
Apr 2012
T-Systems was eager to adopt cloud computing so that it could aggressively drive down IT costs and improve service availability. To create a cloud computing environment as quickly as possible,...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Housing Service Delivers New Features Faster With Hyper-V-Based Cloud Solution
Mar 2012
The customer is a national online apartment search service. To stay competitive, it needs to roll out new services quickly and deliver outstanding performance for approximately 6 million visitors...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
DenizBank: Bank Delivers IT as a Service Using Private Cloud Model, Avoids $12 Million Expense
Mar 2012
DenizBank, a fast-growing bank in Turkey, constantly needed new technology to support its growth - but data center costs were spiraling upward. To reduce costs and speed the delivery of IT...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
NetBenefit: Hosting Provider Reduces Costs 40 Percent, Provisions Servers Faster With Cloud Services
Mar 2012
NetBenefit is a managed hosting provider in the United Kingdom that continuously refreshes its technology to stay competitive. It recently upgraded to Microsoft System Center 2012, so that it...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Government of Albania: Albania Standardizes Government IT With Cloud Services, Lifts Productivity 70 Percent
Feb 2012
The ministries and agencies of the Albanian government were making great strides in their use of technology - but that became a problem. A growing number of decentralized applications ran on a...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Walsh Group: Construction Firm Builds On-Demand IT Infrastructure With Private Cloud Computing
Feb 2012
Although, The Walsh Group specializes in building big things, it wanted to shrink its data center. The Chicago, Illinois - based builder of highways, skyscrapers, and subways sought to reduce...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Hostway: Hosting Provider Saves $100,000, Increases Reliability With Cloud Management Solution
Nov 2011
In 2010, hosting provider Hostway used Microsoft virtualization software to launch a line of cloud computing services. Before it could expand its cloud business, it wanted a more comprehensive...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Redynamics Asia: IT Provider Adopts Private Cloud Model to Reduce Costs by $1.5 Million, Grow Faster
Nov 2011
Redynamics Asia is a fast-growing IT services provider that wanted to remove the technology barriers that limited business growth. The constant demand for more server and desktop computers...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Progel IT: IT Firm Uses Cloud Management Solution to Boost Agility, Customer Service
Nov 2011
Progel IT, a managed services provider in Italy, wanted better management tools to build private clouds in its virtualized development environment and to automate management of its production...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Uni Micro: ISV Uses Virtualization Solution to Speed Development, Optimize Cloud Investments
Nov 2011
Uni Micro, a Norway-based software development firm, needed to increase its capacity to respond to new market opportunities. After successfully using Microsoft virtualization tools to trim...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Lionbridge Technologies: Global Translation Provider Simplifies Private Cloud Administration With Portal
Jul 2010
Lionbridge translates and adapts technology products and web content to meet the linguistic and technical needs of clients around the world. Lionbridge used server virtualization to simplify its...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Stanley Consultants: Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Enable Exchange Consolidation and Serverless Offices for Global Consulting Company
Jul 2009
Stanley Consultants is a worldwide provider of engineering, environmental and construction services. Stanley Consultants needed to optimize its email performance in order to help its members...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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Case Studies
Cloud One Delivers IBM Rational Development Tools in the Cloud Using an Elastic, Highly Scalable, and Economical SaaS Model, Powered by VMware
Oct 2011
CloudOne is a market leader that provides business customers with a full set of IBM Rational tools for development in the cloud. CloudOne is a SaaS provider that enables businesses to deploy IBM...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Improving Contrast in Random Grids Based Visual Secret Sharing
Jan 2012
In the existing random grids based (n, n) Visual Secret Sharing (VSS) schemes, decryption is done with the help of human visual system by stacking the cipher grids. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by Science and Engineering Research Support soCiety
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White Papers
Clustering Technique to Interpret Numerical Weather Prediction Output Products for Forecast of Cloudburst
Jan 2012
With the advent of digital computers and their continuous increasing processing power, the 'Numerical Weather Prediction' (NWP) models which solve a close set of equations of atmospheric model,...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
A Generalized Framework for Building Scalable Load Balancing Architectures in the Cloud
Jan 2012
Load Balancing in cloud computing is dissimilar from conventional load balancing techniques, because of the limitations in conventional load balancing techniques if the authors are deployed in the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Desktop Virtualization in the Cloud
Jul 2011
Gartner says cloud computing is "A style of computing where massively scalable, IT-enabled capabilities are provided as a service across the Internet to multiple external customers." IDC says it...
Provided by GTSI
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White Papers
Manufacturing in the Cloud
Apr 2012
Cloud services will be a leading driver of productivity for manufacturers over the next decade, according to a new study by IDC Manufacturing Insights. Cloud-based services provide the opportunity...
Provided by inKumo
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White Papers
NAMD Package Benchmarking on the Base of Armenian Grid Infrastructure
Feb 2012
The parallel scaling (parallel performance up to 48 cores) of NAMD package has been investigated by estimation of the sensitivity of interconnection on speedup and benchmark results - testing the...
Provided by Scientific Research Publishing
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White Papers
Interoperability of Cloud Computing With Web Services
Jan 2012
Cloud Computing is regarded as the fastest growing and evolving technology in the field of computer science nowadays. Many researchers have undertaken various research projects in this field....
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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White Papers
Grid Computing and Its Applications-A Survey
Oct 2011
This paper is to present the concept of cloud computing and its applications. The Grid is rapidly emerging as the dominant paradigm for wide area distributed computing. It's goal is to provide a...
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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