Today’s organizations consume an increasing share of their computing resources as computing services, using an ondemand model and paying only for what they use. They consume cloud business applications and processes, and store and analyze vast amounts of information on cloud provisioned resources. Cloud computing is dramatically reducing the capital required to support IT operations, while brin...

Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (IOT), which is the interconnection via the Internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data are hot discussions now in the trade of Indian based farming and hospitality industry. Cloud computing which is the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and proc...

The fields of Grid, Utility and Cloud Computing have a set of common objectives in harnessing shared resources to optimally meet a great variety of demands costeffectively and in a timely manner Since Grid Computing started its technological journey about a decade earlier than Cloud Computing, the Cloud can benefit from the technologies and experience of the Grid in building an infrastructure f...

Cloud computing has emerged as perhaps the hottest development in information technology. Despite all of the attention that it has garnered, existing analyses focus almost exclusively on the issues that surround data privacy without exploring cloud computing’s architectural and policy implications. This article offers an initial exploratory analysis in that direction. It begins by introducing k...

Cloud intelligence is a collection of technologies emerging from the migration of business intelligence and analytics technologies to a cloud computing environment combined with exploiting the massive range of new intelligence opportunities opened up by cloud computing. Cloud computing introduces several trends which require traditional business intelligence techniques to be re-thought, includi...

Big data, Cloud Computing and Data Science are currently trending in organizations across the globe. Big Data refers to technologies and techniques that involve data that is massive, heterogeneous and fast-changing for conventional technologies, skills and infra-structure to address efficiently. Cloud Computing is a paradigm that provides dynamically scalable and virtualized resource as a servi...

In fact, Gartner projected global revenue for cloud computing to reach almost $150 billion by 2014. However, The 2011 market is already approx $68 billion globally. With increase in web technologies and Internet, a proportional increase in Cloud computing technologies has been cited. Cloud computing has been emerging as a flexible and powerful computational architecture to offer ubiquitous serv...

The global economic constantly changing and the advent of new technologies imply the demand of changing in the business pattern of manufacturing industry. Nowadays, most manufacturing companies have realized the importance of collaboration between dispersed factories, different suppliers and distributed stakeholders, in a quick, real-time and effective manner. Cloud computing is an evolution of...

Cloud computing has emerged as the most dominant computational paradigm in recent times. There are tremendous benefits for enterprises adopting cloud technologies. It provides resources and services on demand, pay-as-you go basis. This includes infrastructure, platform and software services. But there are still a number of security threats and challenges associated with utilizing cloud computin...

Cloud computing has recently received a significant attention and started attracting companies, general users, and developers. With the increase of the popularity of this paradigm, the importance of testing the cloud started to emerge. Many authors came up with paper about testing technologies applied to the cloud, however; there is no clear methodology to follow in order to complete a cloud te...