Advances on Cloud Computing and Technologies

Cloud Computing Technologies

Received May 13, 2012 Revised May 30, 2012 Accepted June 5,2012 This paper outlines the key characteristics that cloud computing technologies possess and illustrates the cloud computing stack containing the three essential services (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS) that have come to define the technology and its delivery model. The underlying virtualization technologies that make cloud computing possible a...

Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications

In a nutshell, the existing Internet provides to us content in the forms of videos, emails and information served up in web pages. With Cloud Computing, the next generation of Internet will allow us to “buy” IT services from a web portal, drastic expanding the types of merchandise available beyond those on e-commerce sites such as eBay and Taobao. We would be able to rent from a virtual storefr...

Advances in Mobile Cloud Computing

As advances in technology occur, mobile cloud computing is able to overcome the issue of resource poverty that occurs in mobile devices. Manufacturers now look at cloud computing as an asset because they can run their products better. The number of businesses and individuals that are investing in cloud computing services is anticipated to grow rapidly. Rapid growth of this nature will have a la...

Advances in Cloud and Ubiquitous Computing

Cloud computing provides on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable and dynamically reallocated computing resources typically located in third-party data centers. Ubiquitous computing aims at providing computing resources anytime and everywhere by using any device, in any location, and in any format. This special issue, Advances in Cloud and Ubiquitous Computing (ACUC), aims at addressin...

Advances in intelligent grid and cloud computing