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With the promise of low-cost access to flexible and elastic resources, enterprises are increasingly migrating their existing workloads into the Cloud. Yet, the heterogeneity of the workloads and existing configuration of legacy IT infrastructure make it challenging to enable a one-click, seamless migration process. There are multiple tools available for migrating servers based on their existing configurations...
The Flemish project Linear was a large scale residential demand response pilot that aims to validate innovative smart grid technology building on the rollout of information and communication technologies in the power grid. For this pilot a scalable, reliable and interoperable ICT infrastructure was set up, interconnecting 240 residential power grid customers with the backend systems of energy service...
When planning a data center migration it is critical to discover the client's business applications and on which devices (server, storage and appliances) those applications are deployed in the infrastructure. It is also important to understand the dependencies the applications have on the infrastructure, on other applications, and in some cases on systems external to the client. Clients can only rarely...
For most businesses, backup is a daily operation that needs to reliably protect diverse digital assets distributed across the enterprise. Efficiently processing ever increasing amounts of data residing on multiple desktops, servers, laptops, etc., and providing dynamic recovery capabilities becomes a high priority task for many IT departments. Driven by the advances in cloud computing and Software...
Intellectual property information service industry has obtained swift and dramatic development in recent years. However, the majority of intellectual property agencies are small or medium size enterprises which are small-scale, less funding and tech-support, scattered layout, and have strong demands. Cloud-computing as an emerging technology presents significance for small and medium-sized enterprises...
This paper describes how a Virtual Bank - a development and testing environment based on a purely synthetic test data base - has been established to address the challenge of protecting sensitive business and client data, while at the same time collaborating in application development and testing across country and jurisdiction borders.
The design of class in the different layer is one of the most important works in software development based on three-tier architecture, however, the methods of component are the core of class and the characters of the function (component method) in different layer are different so to find out these characters and to form the design strategy of component method called function in this paper is very...
In this paper we present AugLAC, a framework which integrates common features of location aware services, e-commerce and augmented reality into a single infrastructure for the development of location aware mobile applications. The research aim is to generalize the proposed framework to suit different business domains and to allow rapid development of applications using a component based architecture...
Call centers have grown rapidly in the last two decades and are taking a vital role in today's business processes. Many companies use their own call centers to monitor their customers' satisfaction or to provide support services and that's why they are concerned with the effective management of these call centers. A vital issue in call center management is workforce management or in other words determining...
Cloud computing in the past few years has grown from a promising business idea to one of the fastest growing field of the IT industry. Still the IT organization is concern about critical issues (like security, data loss) existing with the implementation of cloud computing, related to security in particular. Consequently issues arise due to client switching to cloud computing. This paper briefs about...
The ongoing increase in the usage of web has led to accumulation of large amounts of data every second. This has in turn made the research industry to grow and focus towards employing web usage mining for increasing the revenues for businesses, carrying out analysis on browsing behavior of web users, improving website layout and much more. Web usage mining is becoming increasingly popular due to the...
One of the primary usage of cloud computing is data storage. Cloud provides enormous capacity of storage for cloud users. Secure data storage and retrieval of the relevant information from the in traditional as well as in cloud computing environment has always been a significant issue. Different techniques have been developed for this purpose, with objective that it is more reliable and flexible to...
Phishing is one of the most common attacks on the networks today and a primary enabler for fraud and identity theft, and the increasing sophistication of the phishers makes it very difficult for users to distinguish between genuine and fake. Thus, it is important to mutually authenticate each other. The mutual authentication between two entities is essential to establish a secure link over public/closed...
E-commerce is gaining popularity day by day. Key attractions causing increased adoption of E-commerce are high availability, ubiquitous, reduced cost & time and efficiency. In today's changing world, technology is growing rapidly. One such growth can be cloud based solution for E-commerce. Software as a Service (SaaS) is one of the model of cloud computing. The proposed system is based on the...
Mobile payment is the very important and critical mobile business solution. Although the existing mobile payment system based on NFC and RFID is able to solve business problems, it requires a large number of updates to support NFC and RFID expensive hardware devices. This paper presents an innovative mobile payment system based on 2-Dimentional (2D) barcode for mobile users and discusses system architecture,...
Cloud IaaS and PaaS providers typically hold Cloud consumers accountable for protecting their applications, while Cloud users often find that protecting their proprietary system, application and data stacks on public or hybrid Cloud environments to be complex, expensive and time-consuming. In this paper we demonstrate, how integration of a security solution such as BT Intelligent Protection with the...
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the most acceptable Cloud Computing delivery model that CEO and IT managers are exploring as they relook at their IT infrastructure. However, the adoption of IaaS faces Challenge/concerns such as reliability, and regulatory compliance for data locality. Providing consistent services in on-demand provisioned Cloud infrastructure services is of primary importance...
A serious challenge that confronts multitenant service systems is finding an optimized deployment strategy according to their business scale and operating characteristics. The tenants want to rent high performance services and services providers demand minimizing cost at the same time of meeting the requirements of tenants. But there are often contradictions between high performance and low cost....
The cloud computing provides better management and utilization of underlying infrastructures with resource virtualization. However, most of existing load balance models are unable to meet the special requirements of business such as the imbalance of peak period, the impact of nonlinear cross between varieties of business. Thus the reliability, scalability and self-organization of service becomes a...
This paper presents a method for smart meetup based on the users' proximity and using contextual information present in a mobile device and information publicly available on the internet. The system uses the user's data from the device and the user's historical data available online to accurately suggest persons to meet up in close proximity to the user and also suggest activities to be done with...
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