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Streaming Satellite Data to Cloud Workflows for <endeca_term>On-Demand Computing</endeca_term> of Environmental Products

Streaming Satellite Data to Cloud Workflows for On-Demand Computing of Environmental Products

Environmental data arriving constantly from satellites and weather stations are used to compute weather coefficients... Read more

12 September, 2010
Five Virtualised Data Centres Deliver Cloud Computing: Cisco Network Is the Platform for ITricity's '<endeca_term>on Demand' Computing</endeca_term> Services in Holland

Five Virtualised Data Centres Deliver Cloud Computing: Cisco Network Is the Platform for ITricity's 'on Demand' Computing Services in Holland

Cloud computing enables effective virtualization of offices and enables them to provide for the needs of the clients on... Read more

1 September, 2010
Cost-Wait Trade-Offs in Client-Side Resource Provisioning With Elastic Clouds

Cost-Wait Trade-Offs in Client-Side Resource Provisioning With Elastic Clouds

...as-a-Service offers, such as Amazon's EC2 cloud, provide virtualized on-demand computing resources on a pay-per-use model. From the user... Read more

26 April, 2011
Measured Characteristics of FutureGrid Clouds for Scalable Collaborative Sensor-Centric Grid Applications

Measured Characteristics of FutureGrid Clouds for Scalable Collaborative Sensor-Centric Grid Applications

...cloud technology has raised a renewed emphasis on the issue of scalable on-demand computing. Cloud back-end support of small devices such as sensors... Read more

23 March, 2011
Towards Autonomic Detection of SLA Violations in Cloud Infrastructures

Towards Autonomic Detection of SLA Violations in Cloud Infrastructures

Cloud computing has become a popular paradigm for implementing scalable on-demand computing. Self-manageable Cloud infrastructures are required in order to comply... Read more

10 November, 2010
Towards A Cloud Optimization Architecture Using Strategy-Trees

Towards A Cloud Optimization Architecture Using Strategy-Trees

Cloud computing represents an emerging approach to on-demand computing. This paper proposes an extension to a three-layered cloud... Read more

9 November, 2010
DCAM: A Distributed Aspectual Middleware

DCAM: A Distributed Aspectual Middleware

In order to meet the self-adaptability requirement of on-demand computing and ubiquitous computing in distributed environment, the paper presents a... Read more

1 November, 2010
DeSVi: An Architecture for Detecting SLA Violations in Cloud Computing Infrastructures

DeSVi: An Architecture for Detecting SLA Violations in Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Cloud computing is a promising paradigm for the implementation of scalable on-demand computing infrastructures. Self-manageable Cloud infrastructures are required in order to... Read more

26 August, 2010
Cloud Auto-Scaling With Deadline and Budget Constraints

Cloud Auto-Scaling With Deadline and Budget Constraints

Clouds have become an attractive computing platform which offers on-demand computing power and storage capacity. Its dynamic scalability enables users to... Read more

13 August, 2010
Software Developers Offer Quick Processing of Compute-Heavy Tasks With Cloud Services

Software Developers Offer Quick Processing of Compute-Heavy Tasks With Cloud Services

InterGrid is an on-demand computing provider that offers cost-effective solutions to complex computing problems... Read more

1 July, 2010

Communal Clouds

Community clouds are shared infrastructures used by several organisations that have the same concerns such as mission,... Read more

14 December, 2011

Are companies ready for cloud ERP heart surgery?

...of private cloud. This approach promises the advantages of cloud computing - scalable, on-demand computing - but all tucked safely away behind the corporate firewall, rather... Read more

27 January, 2011 by Steve Ranger
A Model for User Trust in Cloud Computing

A Model for User Trust in Cloud Computing

...medium sized businesses in recent years. The "Pay per usage" cost model, on demand computing, large scale storage resource with easy access, and freeing users... Read more

1 April, 2012
High Performance Computing for Finite Element in Cloud

High Performance Computing for Finite Element in Cloud

...computing brings both opportunities and challenges to High Performance Computing (HPC). Infinite on-demand computing resource can make HPC much more convenient and common than... Read more

1 September, 2011
The Journey From Computer Time-Sharing to Cloud Computing: A Literature Review

The Journey From Computer Time-Sharing to Cloud Computing: A Literature Review

...in both the commercial and the educational sectors. Constant pressure to deliver on-demand computing services in a 24/7 environment amidst increasing financial pressure... Read more

1 July, 2011

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