Abstract– Cloud Computing has become another buzzword after Web 2.0. However‚ there are dozens of different definitions for Cloud Computing and there seems to be no consensus on what a Cloud is. On the other hand‚ Cloud Computing is not a completely new concept; it has intricate connection to the relatively new but thirteen-year established Grid Computing paradigm‚ and other relevant technologies such as utility computing‚ cluster computing‚ and distributed systems in general. This
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Cloud Computing. Alternative sourcing strategy for business ICT. Contents. 3 1. Abstract. 4 4 5 2. Introduction to Cloud Computing. 2.1 A historical background. 2.2 Definitions. 7 7 11 12 3. Flexible ICT services - more than just a dream. 3.1 Business needs as a driver of Cloud Computing. 3.2 Status Quo. 3.3 A summary - added value with Cloud Computing. 14 14 14 15 4. Areas and examples of application. 4.1 Cloud Computing in business startups. 4.2 Cloud Computing in companies
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Part A: Cloud Computing What is cloud computing? Cloud computing allows people to log into a web based service which hosts applications‚ programs or document. Imagine your job at a big corporation is to make sure every single computer in the company has the right software to work. Buying applications and programs for every single computer can be costly. Cloud computing solves that problem. You’d only have to install one application to ensure the employees can access to the “cloud”. The “cloud”
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History of Cloud Computing The term “cloud computing” was most probably derived from the diagrams of clouds used to represent the Internet in textbooks. The concept was derived from telecommunications companies who made a radical shift from point-to-point data circuits to Virtual Private Network (VPN) services in the 1990s. By optimizing resource utilization through load balancing‚ they could get their work done more efficiently and inexpensively. The first time the term was used in its current
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Arpita Mathur et al. / International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering (IJCSE) Cloud Based Distributed Databases: The Future Ahead Arpita Mathur Assistant Professor: Dept. of Computer Science Lachoo Memorial College of Science & Technology Jodhpur‚ Rajasthan (India) Mridul Mathur Assistant Professor: Dept. of Computer Science Lachoo Memorial College of Science & Technology Jodhpur‚ Rajasthan (India) Pallavi Upadhyay Assistant Professor: Dept. of Computer Science Lachoo
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TECHNOLOGY Why Cloud Computing Matters to Finance By Ron Gill‚ CMA‚ CFM When was the last time you upgraded your ERP system? If the answer is “not in recent memory‚” then you aren’t alone. About two-thirds of mid-sized businesses are running old versions of their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system—in some cases‚ it’s software that’s three or more versions old. This is the legacy of decades of on-premise (in-house) software deployments‚ incremental releases that never seemed worth the
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..................................................................................................................8 Cloud Computing: An Overview ......................................................................................................11 A Risk Management Approach: Common and Delta Controls ........................................................15 Cloud Computing Case Study...........................................................................................................40 Glossary
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CryptoNET: Generic Security Framework for Cloud Computing Environments Abdul Ghafoor Abbasi A Doctoral Dissertation in Communication Systems School of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) KTH ‐ Stockholm‚ Sweden‚ 2011 2|Page TRITA ‐ ICT ‐ COS ‐1102 KTH‚ School of Information and ISSN: 1653‐6347 Communication Technology
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CLOUD COMPUTING RESEARCH WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING 1. Definition There are many definitions of cloud computing due to its fast development and vast number of research papers associated with it. A definition from the NIST Working Definition of Cloud Computing published by the U.S.Government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology is “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous‚ convenient‚ on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.‚ networks
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Mobile Computing and Social Networking Mobile Computing and Social Networking May 20th 2012 Abstract Mobile computing has become a fixture in our everyday lives. As of today‚ people throughout the world can use their mobile devices to do anything that they would normally do on a laptop or a personal computer. At this point‚ there are no foreseeable bounds where mobile technology is concern. The healthcare industry is now realizing this fact and has decided to implement mobile technology
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