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Overview Cloud computing means: On-demand self service Virtualization Elastic resource provisioning Cloud computing service is comparable to public utility services like gas, telephone or water supply. Economical value of cloud computing service is determined by reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) characteristics. Availability impacts the value of cloud computing as it is perceived by end users. […]
Overview Currently today, large internet-scale services are still architected using the principles of service-orientation. The key overarching idea is that a service is not one large monolith but indeed a composite of cooperating sub-services. How these sub-services are designed and implemented are given either by the respective business function, as in the case of traditional […]
Resource Management in Cloud Computing is a topic that has received much interest both within the research community and within the operations of the large cloud providers; naturally, as it has a significant impact on the cloud provider’s bottom line. Much of the work to date on resource management focuses on Service Level Agreements (for […]
Energy in general and energy consumption in particular is a major issue for the large cloud providers today. Smaller cloud providers – both private and public – also have an interest in reducing their energy consumption, although it is often not their most important concern. With increasing competition and decreasing margins in the IaaS sector, […]
Description The widespread adoption and the development of cloud platforms have increased confidence in migrating key business applications to the cloud. New approaches to distributed computing and data analysis have also emerged in conjunction with the growth of cloud computing. Among them, MapReduce and its implementations are probably the most popular and commonly used for […]
Overview Cloud Incident Management is a new research direction which focuses on conducting forensic investigations, electronic discovery (eDiscovery), and other critical aspects of security that are inherent in a multi-tenant, highly virtualized environment, along with any standards that need to be followed. An Incident is an event which occurs outside the standard operation plan and […]
Overview Storage, together with computing and networking, is one of the fundamental parts of IaaS. The research initiative on cloud storage at ICCLab, under the Infrastructure theme, focuses on the exploration of the limiting factors of the available storage systems, aiming at identifying new technologies and providing solutions that can be used to improve the efficiency […]
The primary focus of the Energy Theme is on reducing the energy consumption of cloud computing resources. As compute nodes consume most of the energy in cloud computing systems, work to date has been focused on reducing the energy consumed by compute loads, particularly within the Openstack context. Although, as servers get increasingly instrumented, it […]
This page is kept for archiving. Please navigate to our new site: blog.zhaw.ch/splab. Overview Since Amazon started offering cloud services (AWS) in 2006, cloud computing in all its forms became evermore popular and has steadily matured since. A lot of experience has been collected and today a high number of companies are running their applications […]
This page is kept for archiving. Please navigate to our new site: blog.zhaw.ch/splab. Description Financial accounting is a very critical process in the monetization process of any service. In the telecommunication world, these processes have long been documented, used, and standardized. Cloud computing being a relatively new paradigm, is still undergoing a transition phase. Many […]