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Showing 1 to 20 of 545 for “"Cloud-computing"”.
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Cloud computing models
… of new technology and business models. Cloud computing now offers organizations more choices regarding how to run infrastructures, save costs, and delegate liabilities to third-party providers. It has become an integral part of technology and business models, and has forced businesses to …
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Elastic Highly Available Cloud Computing
High availability and elasticity are two the cloud computing services technical features. Elasticity is a key feature of cloud computing where provisioning of resources is closely tied to the runtime demand. High availability assure that cloud applications are resilient to failures. Existing cloud …
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Architectural Operations in Cloud Computing
Rapid scalability is important in cloud computing in order to serve growing communities and optimize hardware costs. This scalability can be hard to achieve, especially in software with static architecture. Changing software architecture of running systems on multiple devices over the Internet is a …
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Scheduling Policies for Cloud Computing
Cloud computing focuses on maximizing the effectiveness of the shared resources. Cloud resources are usually not only shared by multiple users but are also dynamically reallocated per demand. This can work for allocating resources to users. This leads to task scheduling as a core and challenging …
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Cloud computing for digital libraries
… and audio files. These systems can make use of cloud computing to achieve high levels of scalability, while making services accessible to all at reasonable infrastructure costs and on-demand. This research aims to develop techniques for building scalable digital information management systems …
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Privacy-preserving encoding for cloud computing
Information in the cloud is under constant attack from cyber criminals as profitability increases; user privacy is also at risk with data being mined for monetary value – the new gold. A single leak could have devastating consequences for a person or organisation, yet users have limited control …
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Resource Allocation in Vehicular Cloud Computing
… we have witnessed the emergence of <em>Cloud Computing</em>, a paradigm shift adopted by information technology (IT) companies with a large installed infrastructure base that often goes under-utilized. The unmistakable appeal of cloud computing is that it provides scalable access to …
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Combinatorial optimisation for sustainable cloud computing
Enabled by both software and hardware advances, cloud computing has emerged as an efficient way to leverage economies of scale for building large computational infrastructures over a global network. While the cost of computation has dropped significantly for end users, the infrastructure supporting …
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Energy impacts of cloud computing trends
… technophiles are households with three or more computing devices. Survey data was examined to show that consumer use data differs significantly between the three consumer groups, where technophile consumers annually use five times more energy on electronic devices when compared to their green …
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How is user trust in cloud computing affected by legal problems relating to data protection in cloud computing? and how can user trust in cloud computing be built?
Over the past few years, cloud computing has become an increasingly popular service,providing Information Technology (IT) resources over the Internet. Many types of cloud services, ranging from simply offering an outsourced storage to a full external provision of hardware infrastructure is the main …
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Enabling virtualization technologies for enhanced cloud computing
Cloud Computing is a ubiquitous technology that offers various services for individual users, small businesses, as well as large scale organizations. Data-center owners maintain clusters of thousands of machines and lease out resources like CPU, memory, network bandwidth, and storage to clients. …
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Fairness for resource allocation in cloud computing.
… become a substantial concern in state-of-the-art computing systems. Accordingly, the rapid growth of cloud computing has highlighted the importance of resource management as a complicated and NP-hard problem. Unlike traditional frameworks, in modern data centers, incoming jobs pose demand …
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Optimal resource allocation algorithms for cloud computing
Cloud computing is emerging as an important platform for business, personal and mobile computing applications. We consider a stochastic model of a cloud computing cluster, where jobs arrive according to a random process and request virtual machines (VMs), which are specified in terms of resources …
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Cross-layer scheduling in cloud computing systems
… leading to sub-optimal throughput for cloud computing platforms. In this thesis, we propose a cross-layer scheduling framework that bridges the application level scheduler with the routing level scheduler (SDN). We realize our framework in a batch-processing framework (Hadoop) and a …
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Factors shaping the future of Cloud Computing
… forces are currently shaping the future of the Cloud Computing Market. End user demand and end user investment in existing technology are important drivers. Vendor innovation and competitive strategy are also important determinants of what cloud solutions will look like in the future. Regulatory …
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A functional flow framework for cloud computing
… limitations. This framework can also be used in cloud design, where a network of given complexity is designed to maximize computation rate for a given set of functions. We provide a greedy algorithm that provides one solution to this problem, and create simulations for each framework, and analyze …
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Disruptive technology business models in cloud computing
Cloud computing, a term whose origins have been in existence for more than a decade, has come into fruition due to technological capabilities and marketplace demands. Cloud computing can be defined as a scalable and flexible shared computing solution in which third-party suppliers use …
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An analysis of the cloud computing platform
… articles have been written about the fact that computing will eventually go in the direction of electricity. Just as most software users these days also own the hardware that runs the software, electricity users in the days of yore used to generate their own power. However, over time with …
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Technology software pricing in cloud computing era
… and setting path-breaking trends over the years. Cloud Computing is one such innovation that has brought a sea of change in the way people build and use software. Businesses are shifting their perspective from a model based on 'software ownership' to a model based on 'software as a service'. This …
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A resource management framework for cloud computing
The cloud computing paradigm is realized through large scale distributed resource management and computation platforms such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Dryad, and Pregel. These platforms enable quick and efficient development of a large range of applications that can be sustained at scale in a …
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