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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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White Papers
Private Virtual Infrastructure (PVI) Model for Cloud Computing
Jan 2012
Cloud Computing is a paradigm shift from the mainframe to client-server in the early 1980s. Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption and delivery model of IT services based on...
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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White Papers
Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility Based on a Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process
Aug 2011
With increasing social awareness on the issue of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the measurement of CSR has received considerable attention in both academic literature and managerial...
Provided by mecs-press
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White Papers
Performance Measurement of Cloud Computing Services
Apr 2012
Cloud computing today has now been growing as new technologies and new business models. In distributed technology perspective, cloud computing most like client-server services like web-based or...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Non-Intrusive Transaction Mining Framework to Capture Characteristics During Enterprise Modernization on Cloud
Apr 2012
The growth in the popularity of Cloud Computing, proposes to transform the way IT is consumed and managed. With promises from on-demand scaling, Cost effective solutions, faster time to market and...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
A Perspective Approach on Energy Efficiency and Cloud Faster of Mobile in Cloud Computing
Feb 2012
In this paper, the authors propose an analysis of the critical factors affecting the energy consumption of mobile clients in cloud computing and consideration to make performance very fast by...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Intelligent Building Management Systems Using Multi Agents: Fuzzy Approach
Feb 2011
Growing needs of humanity have forced him to use modern technology in all aspects of his life. Intelligent buildings are one of these modern technologies that have great advantages for people....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
Postcard: Minimizing Costs on Inter-Datacenter Traffic With Store-and-Forward
Apr 2012
It is typical for cloud providers to operate a number of geographically distributed datacenters, where inter-datacenter traffic constitutes a large portion of a cloud provider's traffic demand...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Towards Optimal Capacity Segmentation With Hybrid Cloud Pricing
Apr 2012
Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes - the subscription option...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Pricing Cloud Bandwidth Reservations Under Demand Uncertainty
Apr 2012
In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-as-you-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, the authors consider a novel...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Maximizing Revenue With Dynamic Cloud Pricing: The Infinite Horizon Case
Feb 2012
The authors study the infinite horizon dynamic pricing problem for an infrastructure cloud provider in the emerging cloud computing paradigm. The cloud provider, such as Amazon, provides computing...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
A Light-Weight Solution to Preservation of Access Pattern Privacy in Un-Trusted Clouds
Jun 2011
Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm that is gaining in-creased popularity. More and more sensitive user data are stored in the cloud. The privacy of users' access pattern to the data...
Provided by Iowa State University
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White Papers
Synergy2Cloud: Introducing Cross-Sharing of Application Experiences Into the Cloud Management Cycle
Apr 2012
Automatically managing collocated cloud applications for improved performance is a hard problem due to the unprecedented scale and the dynamics of the multiplexed cloud environment. Compounding...
Provided by Rice University
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White Papers
Clearing the Clouds a Study of Emerging Scale-Out Workloads on Modern Hardware
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
Data Center Hosting Optimization - Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Dec 2011
Virtualization and cloud computing technologies play a major role in optimizing the data centers and servers hosting aspect. This help to modernize the data center with an improvement of saving...
Provided by Versatile Solutions
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White Papers
Cloud Computing and Its Pricing Schemes
Apr 2012
Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging technology which involves deployment of various services like software, web services and virtualized infrastructure, as a product on public, private or hybrid...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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White Papers
A Survey on Security Issues in Cloud Computing
Sep 2011
Cloud Computing holds the potential to eliminate the requirements for setting up of high-cost computing infrastructure for the IT-based solutions and services that the industry uses. It promises...
Provided by West Bengal University of Technology
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White Papers
Fog Computing: Mitigating Insider Data Theft Attacks in the Cloud
Mar 2012
Cloud computing promises to significantly change the way the people use computers and access and store their personal and business information. With these new computing and communications...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
The Next Paradigm Shift: From Vehicular Networks to Vehicular Clouds
Jan 2012
The past decade has witnessed a growing interest in vehicular networking and its multiple applications. The initial vision that had fueled research in vehicular networking had originated in an...
Provided by Old Dominion University
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White Papers
Comparison-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control in Clouds
Feb 2012
Access control is one of the most important security mechanisms in cloud computing. However, there has been little work that explores various comparison-based constraints for regulating data...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Towards Temporal Access Control in Cloud Computing
Jan 2012
Access control is one of the most important security mechanisms in cloud computing. Attribute-based access control provides a flexible approach that allows data owners to integrate data access...
Provided by Peking University
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White Papers
Collaborative Integrity Verification in Hybrid Clouds
Aug 2011
A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment in which an organization provides and manages some internal resources and the others provided externally. However, this new environment could bring...
Provided by Peking University
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White Papers
Dynamic Audit Services for Integrity Verification of Outsourced Storages in Clouds
Mar 2011
In this paper, the authors propose a dynamic audit service for verifying the integrity of untrusted and outsourced storage. Their audit service, constructed based on the techniques, fragment...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Feature Modeling of Software as a Service Domain to Support Application Architecture Design
Oct 2011
Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm that has gained broad interest in the industry. SaaS architectures vary widely according to the application category and number of tenants. To...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Role of User Profile in Cloud-Based Collaboration Services for Innovation
Sep 2011
Enterprises are evolving their businesses from silo-based knowledge to collaborative-based knowledge by promoting open innovation through collaboration in to their technology infrastructure....
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Behaviour-Inspired Data Management in the Cloud
Jul 2011
Open source cloud computing solutions are still not mature enough to handle data-intensive applications, e.g., scientific simulations. Thus, it is crucial to propose appropriate algorithms and...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Open Architecture for Developing Multitenant Software-as-a-Service Applications
Jul 2011
As cloud computing infrastructures are growing, in terms of usage, its requirements about software design, management and deployment are increasing as well. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Sociology View on Cloud Computing Value: Actor Network Theory Perspective
Jul 2011
In this paper, the authors discuss the cloud computing value and future technology/service development through ANT theory. They argue that cloud computing values generated through networking of...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Cloud Credential Vault
Jul 2011
While cloud computing presents strong value propositions, it also presents significant headaches to enterprise IT departments, including incompatible billing and purchasing process, no policy...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Model-Based Migration of Legacy Software Systems to Scalable and Resource-Efficient Cloud-Based Applications: The CloudMIG Approach
Jul 2011
The paper describes the model-based approach CloudMIG. Cloud computing supplies software, platforms, and Infrastructures as a Service (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, respectively) over a network...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Understanding the Relationship Between SDP and the Cloud
Jul 2011
Notions of SDP (Service Delivery Platform) have been widely used in Telcos albeit without a common industry understanding. SDP projects have spearheaded next generations of Telco Service Provider...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Understanding Cloud Requirements - A Supply Chain Lifecycle Approach
Sep 2011
Cloud Computing is offering competitive advantages to companies through flexible and, scalable access to computing resources. More and more companies are moving to cloud environments; therefore...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Cloud Capacity Reservation for Optimal Service Deployment
Sep 2011
Cloud computing is a profound revolution in the way it offers the computation capability. The Information Technology organizations do not need to oversize their infrastructure anymore, potentially...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Designing an Elastic and Scalable Social Network Application
Sep 2011
Central server-based social networks can suffer from overloading caused by social trends and make the service momentarily unavailable preventing users to access it when they most want it. Central...
Provided by IARIA
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Webcasts
Microsoft Webcast: The Business Value of Online Services (Level 100)
Apr 2010
Microsoft cloud services is a new model for business computing. It offers greater financial flexibility in how to fund IT resources. It's like turning on a light switch: An organization doesn't...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Hear About the Hottest Trends in IT Service Desk
Mar 2010
How to take advantage of the mobile applications that are impacting the IT service management community? The presenters will discuss trends in mobile applications that are impacting IT service...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
BMC Remedy ITSM On Demand Product Demo
Jan 2010
This webcast will throw light on BMC Remedy ITSM.
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Delivering Real-Time Visibility Within Minutes and Without Programming
Jan 2010
The attendee will learn how quickly deliver real-time operational visibility into the TIBCO EMS, Rendezvous, and Hawk systems. The webcast will also show how to leverage the out-of-the-box...
Provided by TIBCO Software
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Webcasts
Microsoft Webcast: Why Microsoft Has the Best Cloud Computing Story (Level 100)
Apr 2010
Cloud is a much-used IT industry term that means different things to different people. Does it mean Web-based applications, Web-hosted services, centralized server farms and data centers, or...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
The Impact of Cloud Computing on IT Service Management
Mar 2010
For the past 30 years, IT Organizations have been providing IT Service Support to their customers and users?and during this time everyone has witnessed great evolution and maturity in the...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Confusion Leads to Opportunity
Jun 2008
Cloud computing is what is referred to by Gartner as an "emerging phenomenon." Phenomena emerge when conditions are right and multiple factors are in play. Much like the aurora borealis, which...
Provided by Gartner
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White Papers
Symposium on Cloud Computing
Jan 2009
Cloud computing as a technology trend is capturing the imagination of many. There are several definitions for this term to be inclusive of "everything" as a service - software to flexible...
Provided by ACM Bangalore
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White Papers
Open Standards and Cloud Computing
Jul 2009
At KDD-2009 in Paris, a panel on open standards and cloud computing addressed emerging trends for data mining applications in science and industry. This report summarizes the answers from a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Weathering the Storm: The Policy Implications of Cloud Computing
Feb 2009
Throughout the history of computing, there have been several paradigm shifts from main-frames to mini computing to micro-processing to networked computers. On track to be the next major paradigm...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
What Is Cloud Computing?
Jan 2009
Cloud Computing is more than a technology. It is more than a platform. It is more than just a hosting provider. It is more than just an application hosted as a service. It is more than providing...
Provided by Cumulux
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Changing Cogitation About Computing
Dec 2009
Cloud Computing is the next generation in computing. It is a type of computing that is comparable to grid Computing, relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era
Nov 2009
A new generation of technology is transforming the world of computing. Internet-based data storage and services - also known as "cloud computing" - are rapidly emerging to complement the...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
2009 Survey of Cloud Computing
Feb 2009
Executives around the globe are facing a conundrum. In the midst of widespread economic turmoil, a recent global survey of C-level executives and IT decision-makers shows a clear, collective...
Provided by Avanade
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White Papers
Realizing the Value Proposition of Cloud Computing: CIO's Enterprise IT Strategy for Cloud
Apr 2009
Cloud Computing is a model for provisioning and consuming IT capabilities on a need and pay use basis. This helps in shifting the cost structure from capital expenditure to operating expenditure...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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White Papers
Service Exchange@Cloud: Low Investment, Non-Linear Revenue Growth Engine for Everyone!
Apr 2009
Service Exchange @ Cloud is a platform, where the Service Publishers and Services Subscribers can do business online for mutual benefits. It is not new from the business idea perspective; there...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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White Papers
Jumping on the Cloud-Wagon?: Pack Your Server Applications for the Trip
Mar 2009
Google "Cloud computing" for a leisurely stroll through more than 10 million returns - most of which are dedicated to technology issues such as: the relative merits of Amazon EC2,Go Grid et al;...
Provided by AppZero
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White Papers
How to Do Capacity Planning
Jan 2010
It is very common for an IT organization to manage system performance in a reactionary fashion, analyzing and correcting performance problems as users report them. When problems occur, hopefully...
Provided by TeamQuest
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Case Studies
City of Madrid: Coordinated Emergency Response Raises Public Safety to a New Level
Mar 2010
The Centro Integrado de Seguridad y Emergencias de Madrid's (CISEM's) mission was to reduce emergency response time, integrate information, standardize procedures and protocols, provide seamless...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IBM Case Study: First Citizens Bank - Client Video
Oct 2009
First Citizens Bank is a 105 year old institution and is currently the largest family controlled bank in America today with roughly over 5,000 employees and 340 branches. The bank operates in...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IBM Case Study: Commerzbank-Client Video
Nov 2009
Commerzbank is the third largest private bank in Germany, and one of the leading financial institutions in Europe. The major challenge IT staff face is the complexity of the bank's infrastructure....
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Turkish Telecommunications Provider Maximizes Investments in IT Staff and Infrastructure
Apr 2010
Turkish mobile telecommunications pioneer Turkcell provides a broad range of services to more than 36 million subscribers. As the company expanded its offerings and product lines, IT operations...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
ReliaCloud's Pay-as-You-Go Cloud Server Platform Provides a Solid Gaming Environment for Preston Kelly
Mar 2010
Preston Kelly is the rare full-service agency without the silo mentality and profit-centered motives that tear down an iconic brand story. The challenge was to find a cost-effective and reliable...
Provided by ReliaCloud
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Case Studies
RightScale Helps Sonoa Win New Customers and Increase Satisfaction
Aug 2009
Sonoa Systems provides an innovative software solution for visibility and control of cloud computing services and APIs. Sonoa needed an automated cloud-deployment system to ensure a quick and...
Provided by RightScale
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Case Studies
Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School Minimizes Cloud Computing Management Using RightScale
Aug 2009
The LPM needed a way to increase the efficiency of its cloud deployments. While cloud computing offered a powerful computational platform for the LPM, a major challenge was to reduce the amount of...
Provided by RightScale
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Case Studies
Zynga Grows to #1 Social Gaming Site With RightScale
Mar 2010
Zynga is the largest developer of social games on the Web, with hugely popular titles such as FarmVille, Mafia Wars, Café World, Zynga Poker, YoVille, FishVille and PetVille. Zynga's online games...
Provided by RightScale
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Case Studies
CA Saves $16 Million and More Than 25 Years of Developers?: Time by Automating Provisioning for Labs on Demand Service
Mar 2010
CA's thousands of developers need access to a variety of server platforms to create and test code for new products and releases. Demand for test systems can vary considerably. To fulfill these...
Provided by CA
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Case Studies
HDFC Improves Operational Efficiency and Reduces Risk With NetApp
Jan 2009
Incorporated in 1977, HDFC Ltd. pioneered the home finance business in India in the 1970s, when demand for housing in India's urban areas was booming. The company's challenge was to build a...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Terremark Delivers Breakthrough Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Solutions With NetApp Storage
Jan 2010
As a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services, Terremark Worldwide provides managed hosting, colocation, networking, and security services. Terremark's cloud-based DR offering is...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Software Startup Triples Productivity, Saves $500,000 With Cloud Computing Solution
Mar 2010
sharpcloud was founded on a revolutionary idea: to enhance strategy development efforts by using the interactive and collaborative tools familiar to people who use social networking sites. But...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Big Plans - Small Budget an Alternative Option for Business Continuity
Apr 2010
The snow earlier this year - believed to have cost UK businesses over £1bn - has been a timely reminder for companies to look at their business continuity plans and ensure they are prepared for...
Provided by CS RM&C
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White Papers
There Is No Cloud
Jan 2010
Cloud is not a technology solution that comes shrink-wrapped in a box. It's something you build to get the capabilities you need to improve the performance of your business. For a term that was...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Disaster Recovery for PTC Windchill Solutions With VMware Site Recovery Manager
Sep 2009
Windchill uses different repositories to store content files, metadata, and user data, and synchronization of these repositories needs to be managed in recovery situations. Addressing the high...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Cloud Computing in the Public Sector: Public Manager's Guide to Evaluating and Adopting Cloud Computing
Nov 2009
Cloud computing - delivering infrastructure, services, and software on demand via the network - offers attractive advantages to the public sector. For example, it has the potential to reduce...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Whitepapers
How IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture Can Be an Integral Part of an Event-Driven Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture
Apr 2008
The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change. Winning companies sense, anticipate and proactively respond to change, the rest trail behind. Business Agility, the ability to...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: BT Financial Group
Jan 2009
Business IT is a relative newcomer to process automation. Whereas automotive and heavy equipment manufacturers have used software to smart-wire products and eliminate wearyingly repeatable tasks...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
Bancomer Speeds Deployment of Online Financial Services to Over 200,000 Users
May 2008
Grupo Financiero Bancomer (GFB) is one of Mexico's leading financial services holding company with total assets of 2.5 billion dollars. Company's challenge was to ensure fast user access and to...
Provided by Micro Focus
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Case Studies
Law Firm Improves Productivity by Minimizing Troubleshooting Time
Dec 2008
Time is money. Especially for tightly run law firms like Ungaretti & Harris. The firm Ungaretti & Harris needed to change its way of handling IT problems. Instead of just reacting to issues as...
Provided by Compuware
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Case Studies
The Auto Club Group - AAA Attains Executive-Level Visibility Into Critical Application Performance
Dec 2008
As part of an effort to modernize, The Auto Club Group - AAA sought to convert its core Sales and Service application from a Windows to an AIX environment. AAA needed a systematic and effective...
Provided by Compuware
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Case Studies
SDWorx Uses Changepoint to Track Consultant Time, Billing and IT Planning
Jan 2009
SDWorx is continually growing, and with a number of business divisions using different time tracking systems, the company was keen to consolidate systems in order to reduce inter-departmental...
Provided by Compuware
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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
-
White Papers
Private Virtual Infrastructure (PVI) Model for Cloud Computing
Jan 2012
Cloud Computing is a paradigm shift from the mainframe to client-server in the early 1980s. Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption and delivery model of IT services based on...
Provided by International Association of Engineers
-
White Papers
Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility Based on a Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process
Aug 2011
With increasing social awareness on the issue of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the measurement of CSR has received considerable attention in both academic literature and managerial...
Provided by mecs-press
-
White Papers
Performance Measurement of Cloud Computing Services
Apr 2012
Cloud computing today has now been growing as new technologies and new business models. In distributed technology perspective, cloud computing most like client-server services like web-based or...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
-
White Papers
Non-Intrusive Transaction Mining Framework to Capture Characteristics During Enterprise Modernization on Cloud
Apr 2012
The growth in the popularity of Cloud Computing, proposes to transform the way IT is consumed and managed. With promises from on-demand scaling, Cost effective solutions, faster time to market and...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
-
White Papers
A Perspective Approach on Energy Efficiency and Cloud Faster of Mobile in Cloud Computing
Feb 2012
In this paper, the authors propose an analysis of the critical factors affecting the energy consumption of mobile clients in cloud computing and consideration to make performance very fast by...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
-
White Papers
Intelligent Building Management Systems Using Multi Agents: Fuzzy Approach
Feb 2011
Growing needs of humanity have forced him to use modern technology in all aspects of his life. Intelligent buildings are one of these modern technologies that have great advantages for people....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
-
White Papers
Postcard: Minimizing Costs on Inter-Datacenter Traffic With Store-and-Forward
Apr 2012
It is typical for cloud providers to operate a number of geographically distributed datacenters, where inter-datacenter traffic constitutes a large portion of a cloud provider's traffic demand...
Provided by University of Toronto
-
White Papers
Towards Optimal Capacity Segmentation With Hybrid Cloud Pricing
Apr 2012
Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes - the subscription option...
Provided by University of Toronto
-
White Papers
Pricing Cloud Bandwidth Reservations Under Demand Uncertainty
Apr 2012
In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-as-you-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, the authors consider a novel...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Maximizing Revenue With Dynamic Cloud Pricing: The Infinite Horizon Case
Feb 2012
The authors study the infinite horizon dynamic pricing problem for an infrastructure cloud provider in the emerging cloud computing paradigm. The cloud provider, such as Amazon, provides computing...
Provided by University of Toronto
-
White Papers
A Light-Weight Solution to Preservation of Access Pattern Privacy in Un-Trusted Clouds
Jun 2011
Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm that is gaining in-creased popularity. More and more sensitive user data are stored in the cloud. The privacy of users' access pattern to the data...
Provided by Iowa State University
-
White Papers
Synergy2Cloud: Introducing Cross-Sharing of Application Experiences Into the Cloud Management Cycle
Apr 2012
Automatically managing collocated cloud applications for improved performance is a hard problem due to the unprecedented scale and the dynamics of the multiplexed cloud environment. Compounding...
Provided by Rice University
-
White Papers
Clearing the Clouds a Study of Emerging Scale-Out Workloads on Modern Hardware
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
Data Center Hosting Optimization - Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Dec 2011
Virtualization and cloud computing technologies play a major role in optimizing the data centers and servers hosting aspect. This help to modernize the data center with an improvement of saving...
Provided by Versatile Solutions
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing and Its Pricing Schemes
Apr 2012
Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging technology which involves deployment of various services like software, web services and virtualized infrastructure, as a product on public, private or hybrid...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
-
White Papers
A Survey on Security Issues in Cloud Computing
Sep 2011
Cloud Computing holds the potential to eliminate the requirements for setting up of high-cost computing infrastructure for the IT-based solutions and services that the industry uses. It promises...
Provided by West Bengal University of Technology
-
White Papers
Fog Computing: Mitigating Insider Data Theft Attacks in the Cloud
Mar 2012
Cloud computing promises to significantly change the way the people use computers and access and store their personal and business information. With these new computing and communications...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
The Next Paradigm Shift: From Vehicular Networks to Vehicular Clouds
Jan 2012
The past decade has witnessed a growing interest in vehicular networking and its multiple applications. The initial vision that had fueled research in vehicular networking had originated in an...
Provided by Old Dominion University
-
White Papers
Comparison-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control in Clouds
Feb 2012
Access control is one of the most important security mechanisms in cloud computing. However, there has been little work that explores various comparison-based constraints for regulating data...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Towards Temporal Access Control in Cloud Computing
Jan 2012
Access control is one of the most important security mechanisms in cloud computing. Attribute-based access control provides a flexible approach that allows data owners to integrate data access...
Provided by Peking University
-
White Papers
Collaborative Integrity Verification in Hybrid Clouds
Aug 2011
A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment in which an organization provides and manages some internal resources and the others provided externally. However, this new environment could bring...
Provided by Peking University
-
White Papers
Dynamic Audit Services for Integrity Verification of Outsourced Storages in Clouds
Mar 2011
In this paper, the authors propose a dynamic audit service for verifying the integrity of untrusted and outsourced storage. Their audit service, constructed based on the techniques, fragment...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Feature Modeling of Software as a Service Domain to Support Application Architecture Design
Oct 2011
Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm that has gained broad interest in the industry. SaaS architectures vary widely according to the application category and number of tenants. To...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Role of User Profile in Cloud-Based Collaboration Services for Innovation
Sep 2011
Enterprises are evolving their businesses from silo-based knowledge to collaborative-based knowledge by promoting open innovation through collaboration in to their technology infrastructure....
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Behaviour-Inspired Data Management in the Cloud
Jul 2011
Open source cloud computing solutions are still not mature enough to handle data-intensive applications, e.g., scientific simulations. Thus, it is crucial to propose appropriate algorithms and...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Open Architecture for Developing Multitenant Software-as-a-Service Applications
Jul 2011
As cloud computing infrastructures are growing, in terms of usage, its requirements about software design, management and deployment are increasing as well. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Sociology View on Cloud Computing Value: Actor Network Theory Perspective
Jul 2011
In this paper, the authors discuss the cloud computing value and future technology/service development through ANT theory. They argue that cloud computing values generated through networking of...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Cloud Credential Vault
Jul 2011
While cloud computing presents strong value propositions, it also presents significant headaches to enterprise IT departments, including incompatible billing and purchasing process, no policy...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Model-Based Migration of Legacy Software Systems to Scalable and Resource-Efficient Cloud-Based Applications: The CloudMIG Approach
Jul 2011
The paper describes the model-based approach CloudMIG. Cloud computing supplies software, platforms, and Infrastructures as a Service (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, respectively) over a network...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Understanding the Relationship Between SDP and the Cloud
Jul 2011
Notions of SDP (Service Delivery Platform) have been widely used in Telcos albeit without a common industry understanding. SDP projects have spearheaded next generations of Telco Service Provider...
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Understanding Cloud Requirements - A Supply Chain Lifecycle Approach
Sep 2011
Cloud Computing is offering competitive advantages to companies through flexible and, scalable access to computing resources. More and more companies are moving to cloud environments; therefore...
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Cloud Capacity Reservation for Optimal Service Deployment
Sep 2011
Cloud computing is a profound revolution in the way it offers the computation capability. The Information Technology organizations do not need to oversize their infrastructure anymore, potentially...
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Designing an Elastic and Scalable Social Network Application
Sep 2011
Central server-based social networks can suffer from overloading caused by social trends and make the service momentarily unavailable preventing users to access it when they most want it. Central...
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A Social Network Approach to Provisioning and Management of Cloud Computing Services for Enterprises
Sep 2011
This paper proposes a social network approach to the provisioning and management of cloud computing services termed Opportunistic Cloud Computing Services (OCCS), for enterprises; and presents the...
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A Linear Programming Approach for Optimizing Workload Distribution in a Cloud
Sep 2011
Cloud computing's usage-based pricing model creates an incentive for subscribers to optimize the utilization of the rented resources. The goal of the current paper is to devise a formal approach...
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Efficient Management of Hybrid Clouds
Sep 2011
Cloud computing has become a significant technology trend driven by big players that is transforming the current IT industry. Public cloud computing comes with advantages such as cost savings,...
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Cloud Computing and Its Application to Blended Learning in Engineering
Sep 2011
The education process in engineering means theory and practice, individual study, group-based projects or experimental work that involves equipment, simulation/emulation software packages and...
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On-Demand Data Integration on the Cloud
Sep 2011
On-demand data integration is among the key challenges in Cloud Computing. In this paper, the authors present an ontology-based framework for describing and integrating data on the fly to answer...
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UnaCloud: Opportunistic Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service
Sep 2011
This paper presents UnaCloud: an opportunistic cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model implementation, which provides at lower cost than dedicated cloud infrastructures, basic...
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