In this paper, the authors describe a research project involving qualitative data collection from large organizations in the U.S., Japan and Europe. Its main objective is to understand what “distributed” means when discussing the management of distributed projects, an issue largely glossed over by the relevant literature. The discussion presented here suggests dimensions to the concept of “dist...

Cloud service providers are distributing data centers geographically to minimize energy costs through intelligent workload distribution. With increasing volumes in emerging cloud workloads, it is critical factor the network for transferring workloads across centers. For geo-distributed centers, many researchers have been exploring strategies cost minimization and inter-data-center distribution ...

The ever-increasing operational cost of geographically distributed datacenters has become a critical issue for cloud service providers. In order to cut the electricity cost of geographically distributed datacenters, several workload management schemes have been proposed, such as Electricity price-aware InteR-datacenter load balancing (EIR), which reduces the electricity cost of active servers b...

Global software development has been a phenomenon of growing interest for almost past decade or so; and its adoption trend continues to gain momentum. Globally distributed work is taken up as an alternative to single-site mainly because of the economic and strategic benefits it offers. Software development at geographically distributed environment is not a straightforward task and entails numer...