Utility computing, elastic computing, and cloud computing are all terms that refer to the concept of dynamically provisioning processing time and storage space from a ubiquitous “cloud” of computational resources. Such systems allow users to acquire and release the resources on demand and provide ready access to data from processing elements, while relegating the physical location and exact par...

Rebound effects have been discussed in various disciplines. In the information and communication technology sector, this topic is still insufficiently studied. Basically, a rebound effect is a feedback mechanism, as a result of which savings from efficiency improvements are not or only partially realized. Due to the potential of cloud computing for efficiency improvements, not only in terms of ...

The emergence of cloud computing is quickly redefining the information technology (IT) and business landscape. Cloud computing involves delivery of IT infrastructure, software and platforms as a service to the end users. This IT acquisition model saves organizations from huge capital expenditures on IT and the burden of keeping a huge IT department to provide system support. Cloud computing as ...

We present an integrated approach for automating service providers’ compliance with data protection laws and regulations, business and technical requirements in cloud computing. The techniques we propose in particular include: natural-language analysis (of legislative and regulatory texts, and corporate security rulebooks) and extraction of enforceable rules, use of sticky policies, automated p...

Cloud computing is a complex infrastructure of software, hardware, processing, and storage that is available as a service. Cloud computing offers immediate access to large numbers of the world's most sophisticated supercomputers and their corresponding processing power, interconnected at various locations around the world, proffering speed in the tens of trillions of computations per second. In...

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is one of the three important fundamental service models provided by cloud computing. It provides users with computing resource and storage resource in terms of virtual machine instances. Because of the rapid development of cloud computing, more and more application systems have been deployed on the IaaS cloud computing platforms. Therefore, once anomalies inc...

An increasing number of companies make use of Cloud Computing services in order to reduce costs and increase flexibility of their IT infrastructure. This has enlivened a debate on the benefits and risks of Cloud Computing, among both practitioners and researchers. This study applies quantitative content analysis to explore the Cloud Computing ecosystem. The analyzed data comprises high quality ...

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Data security is one of the biggest concerns in adopting Cloud computing. In Cloud environment, users remotely store their data and relieve themselves from the hassle of local storage and maintenance. However, in this process, they lose control over their data. Sinc...

The evolution of internet has introduced an immense change in the usage of information and communication technologies. The fast, easy-to-use and pay per usage criteria leads to cloud computing infrastructure. Cloud Computing provides network services to its clients as per their requirements. Nowadays, information security has become a serious issue while clientserver interaction in cloud comput...

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...