Windows Azure platform is the Microsoft implementation of cloud computing. This paper covers detailed introduction to Windows Azure Platform. Windows Azure provides resources and services for consumers. The next part describes the five main components of Windows Azure: Hardware is abstracted and exposed as compute resources. Physical storage is abstracted as storage resources and exposed throug...

Aneka is an Application Platform-as-a-Service (Aneka PaaS) for Cloud Computing. It acts as a framework for building customized applications and deploying them on either public or private Clouds. One of the key features of Aneka is its support for provisioning resources on different public Cloud providers such as Amazon EC2, Windows Azure and GoGrid. In this chapter, we will present Aneka platfo...

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Data market is an emerging type of cloud service that enables a data owner to sell their data sets in a public cloud. Buyers who are interested in a certain dataset can access the data in the market via a RESTful API. Accessing data in the data market may not be free. For example, it costs USD 12 per month to obtain 100 “transactions” from the WorldWide Historical Weather dataset in Windows Azu...

Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is an efficient retrieval of relevant images from large databases based on features extracted from the image. This paper proposes a system that can be used for retrieving images related to a query image from a large set of distinct images. It follows an image segmentation based approach to extract the different features present in an image. The above feature...