Research Readings in Cloud Computing,

An Intelligent Job Scheduling System for Web Service in Cloud Computing

J Liu, XG Luo, BN Li, XM Zhang, F Zhang - TELKOMNIKA Indonesian Journal of …, 2013

Abstract Cloud computing is a new computing and business paradigm with flexible and
powerful computational architecture to offer universal services to users via Internet. Web
service is one of the most active and widely adopted implementation in cloud computing. ...

[PDF] Deployment and management of SDR cloud computing resources: problem definition and fundamental limits

I Gomez-Miguelez, V Marojevic, A Gelonch - EURASIP Journal on Wireless …, 2013

Abstract Software-defined radio (SDR) describes radio transceivers implemented in software
that executes on general-purpose hardware. SDR combined with cloud computing
technology will reshape the wireless access infrastructure, enabling computing resource ...

[PDF] Cloud Computing: Way to the Future

PC Padhy

Abstract-Cloud computing is the use of delivering hosted services over the internet for
corporate work. Information is provided to the computers involved on demand. With cloud
computing professionals are accessing services and different resources to perform jobs ...

[PDF] Privacy and Security Issues in the Cloud Computing

SV Mashalkar, RS Mente

ABSTRACT-This paper focuses on the security concerns of cloud computing. Before
analyzing the security implications, the definition of cloud computing and brief discussion to
under cloud computing is presented. The actual analysis of this paper focuses on the ...

[PDF] Effective Service Security Schemes In Cloud Computing

K Sravani, KLA Nivedita

Abstract The cloud computing is the fastest growing concept in IT industry. The IT companies
have realized that the cloud computing is going to be the hottest topic in the field of IT. Cloud
Computing reduces cost by sharing computing and storage resources, merged with an on ...

[PDF] Allocation Of Virtual Machines In Cloud Computing Using Load Balancing Algorithm

MRMD Shah, MRAA Kariyani, MRDL Agrawal

Abstract-Cloud computing is a fast growing area in computing research and industry today.
Three main services provided by the cloud are IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS. With the
advancement of the Cloud, there are new possibilities opening up on how applications ...

[PDF] Home Automation Using Cloud Computing and Mobile Devices.

MB Salunke

Abstract: Today, we are entering post-PC era where mobile devices (eg Smartphone's, Smartphone's
and Handheld tablets) are handling daily tasks that traditional desktop and laptop computers
once handled. Several reports show that personal computers are no longer on the ...

Cloud Computing in India: A Long way to Go

According to a business report " Brazil, Russia, India and China still lag far behind developed countries in policies considered critical for the future of cloud computing, but each made some progress over the past year, a U.S. industry group said on Thursday.

The Business Software Alliance, which represents U.S. industry heavyweights such as Microsoft Corp, said the BRIC nations all came in at the bottom half of 24 countries surveyed in its second annual cloud computing report.

Brazil moved from final position to 22nd with a tally of 44.1 out of a possible 100 points.

China, India and Russia each also rose two slots with scores of 51.5, 53.1 and 59.1, respectively.

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Cloud computing refers to providing software, storage, computing power and other services to customers from remote data centers over the Web.

Demand for cloud-based software is rising rapidly because the approach allows companies to start using new programs faster and at lower cost than traditional products that are installed at a customer's own data center.

"The cloud is really the hot sector of IT right now," and U.S. companies have a big interest in countries harmonizing policies instead of chopping the cloud into pieces, said Robert Holleyman, president of the Business Software Alliance.

At the same time, the aggregation of massive amounts of data in large data centers "creates new and highly tempting targets" for cyber attacks, making it vital that both law enforcement officials and cloud providers have adequate tools to fight the intrusions, the BSA report said.

Lack Of Properly Trained Cloud Professionals Threaten Industry

John Omwamba shares a growing concern Data from job aggregators focused on the cloud computing market reveals that some areas stand out as the best places to find cloud computing jobs around the world. The irony is that employers in some of these areas are finding it difficult to find qualified people to fill the cloud positions which are apparently paying in the upswings of $100,000 plus, per year. While this is a salary to die for, the fact that no suitable candidates are showing up is raising questions on whether the academic pipeline is releasing enough techies for the evolving cloud space

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Dangerous Gap

Analysts have raised a serious alarm pointing to the danger of heading to a future where the market will experience a boom in cloud computing job opportunities with no properly qualified Cloud Professionals to fill them. Indeed a Microsoft sponsored IDC report shows that cloud jobs will shoot up by 26% every year through the next two years starting 2013. In 2012 alone, approximately 1.7 million jobs fled by a void of qualified skills to fill them. According to IDC, the turn of 2015 will witness a critical swell in IT jobs throughout the global scene, pushing to the 30 million mark.

Way behind

Sadly, IT professionals around the world are seemingly behind the cloud revolution and have not actually been equipped with skills matching what the cloud computing environment is demanding in order to succeed. There is a significant danger here because the consequences could include poor products coming out of cloud factories, not to mention security risks and system vulnerabilities that will threaten millions of businesses around the world who rely on cloud computing to perform their business functions.

Much of the frustration is driven from the approach businesses are taking towards cloud computing. Most businesses are increasingly recognizing the cloud as an integral part of their systems, with majority (half) terming it a priority area. Two thirds are making plans to implement relevant cloud solutions in their enterprises or are already going through the implementation process.

Certification and experience rate poorly

Businesses have acknowledged that while they would love to fill cloud positions in their companies, their fear is drawn from the reality on the ground which points to a scenario where those who claim to be good in the craft lack proper training, experience and credible certification. Recruiting companies are consistently creating systems to aggregate the best cloud jobs. The challenge still stands tall: that there are no qualified cloud professionals to touch these jobs.

Glaring Opportunity?

While the loneliness of a company searching for skills that cannot be found speaks volumes, there is a glaring opportunity that is lighting up somewhere in the uncovered clouds. This is no doubt the time for academic institutions and other stakeholders to seize the moment and introduce practical, full time cloud courses that will then bake the next cloud brains whom the industry needs so badly if the birth of revolutionary cloud products is to be sustained heading into the future.

Embrace the cloud computing revolution – with caution

According to a post by Dan Gillmor " Google recently launched its high-end Chromebook Pixel, and like previous Chromebooks this notebook computer makes a distinctly 21st Century assumption: that users' data, work and play belong mostly online, not on their own computers. Google isn't alone in pushing this notion, but it's the most powerful evangelist for the shift to what tech people call the "cloud" and away from "local" storage. Call me unconvinced. Deeply unconvinced.

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The cloud evangelists have an alluring pitch. First, they say, we can now count on being connected as much of the time as necessary. Second, these computing and data services becoming a utility like electricity – easier and safer to run from remote servers than on our local systems.

Like almost everyone else, I use lots of cloud services. They start with everything I do from a browser, such as search, microblogging (Twitter), multiuser games, etc. They also include my email (I store a few weeks' worth of messages in an online system that shows me the same inbox and folder structure no matter what computer I'm using) and calendars, but in those cases I'm synchronizing the data to the local machine. And I use several online sites to back up my music and important documents.

But move everything to the cloud, and use it in an on-demand way? No chance, at least not now – and probably not ever.

For one thing, web-based applications simply can't match the power and flexibility of native desktop software, at least not yet. Google Docs do many things well enough for non-complex tasks, but that's not good enough when I need, say, the track changes feature in Microsoft Word or its Linux equivalent, LibreOffice Writer. Online applications are getting better, and they can do some things the offline ones can't, of course; there are tradeoffs that over time will make the online offerings more compelling. And as Google and other web-based software companies make it possible to work offline – you can do that now with Google Docs – one more advantage of local computing will be mooted. For complete story see here 

Research Directions in Cloud Computing

[PDF] Survey on Resource Allocation Strategies in Cloud Computing

R Patel, S Patel - International Journal of Engineering, 2013

Abstract—Cloud computing is the next generation of technology which unifies everything into one. It is an on demand service because it offers dynamic flexible resource allocation for reliable and guaranteed services in pay as-you-use manner to public. In Cloud computing ...

[PDF] A Novel Survey on Load Balancing in Cloud Computing

A Khetan, V Bhushan, SC Gupta - International Journal of Engineering, 2013

Abstract-The availability of Virtual Machines (VMs) in cloud is one major concern of cloud computing. Cloud Computing is nothing but a collection of computing resources and services pooled together and is provided to the users on pay-as-needed basis. Sharing of ...

[PDF] Large-scale linked data processing-cloud computing to the rescue

M Hausenblas, R Grossman, A Harth… - … on Cloud Computing and …, 2012

Abstract: Processing large volumes of Linked Data requires sophisticated methods and tools. In the recent years we have mainly focused on systems based on relational databases and bespoke systems for Linked Data processing. Cloud computing offerings such as ...

… POLICY, METHOD FOR SETTING UP A VIRTUAL MACHINE POLICY, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A VIRTUAL MACHINE POLICY IN A CLOUD COMPUTING …

CK JEON, JM KIM - WO Patent 2,013,027,923, 2013

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for setting up a virtual machine policy, to a method for setting up a virtual machine policy, and to a method for providing a virtual machine policy in a cloud computing server system, which automatically set up the policy ...

A study of IP prefix hijacking in cloud computing networks

Y Liu, W Peng, J Su - Security and Communication Networks, 2013

ABSTRACT IP prefix hijacking remains a serious security threat to the traditional services in 

the Internet. It also harms the confidentiality and integrity of user data in Internet-enabled 

cloud services because of its great dependence on Internet routing infrastructure. In ...

[PDF] An analysis of security issues for cloud computing

K Hashizume, DG Rosado, E Fernández-Medina… - Journal of Internet Services …, 2013

Abstract Cloud Computing is a flexible, cost-effective, and proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet. However, cloud Computing presents an added level of risk because essential services are often outsourced to a third ...

Data Confidentiality using Fragmentation in Cloud Computing

A Hudic, S Islam, P Kieseberg, S Rennert, E Weippl - International Journal of …, 2013

Purpose-The main aim of this research is to secure the sensitive outsourced data with minimum encryption within the cloud provider. Unfaithful solutions for providing privacy and security along with performance issues by encryption usage of outsourced data are the ...

CONTROLLING VIRTUAL MACHINE IN CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM

S Han, J Kim - US Patent 20,130,055,261, 2013

Abstract: Described embodiments provide for controlling a plurality of virtual machines in a cloud computing system. At least one virtual storage allocated to the plurality of virtual machines may be monitored. Based on the monitoring result, a virtual storage in a service ...

[PDF] Design and Implementation of a Cloud based TeleDermatology System

MA Mahapatra, MM Dash - International Journal of Engineering, 2013

... aspects. This paper describes the implementation of a teledermatology system for patient monitoring using cloud computing. ... care. Keywords: Cloud Computing, Remote Healthcare Services, Teledermatology. 1.0 Introduction: ...

[PDF] Proposed Efficient and Enhanced Algorithm in Cloud Computing

VK Banga - International Journal of Engineering, 2013

Abstract Cloud computing, as of today has boomed and enhanced the use of internet as well 

as network services where the capability of one node can be used by other nodes. Gigantic-

scale heterogeneous distributed computing environments (like Clouds and Computational ...

Cloud Computing Benefits: Both Financial and Operational

According to an article Two primary benefits of cloud computing are financial and operational

Consider the financial benefits of the cloud.   A survey by KPGM found that 70 percent of businesses say that the cloud has already brought them significant efficiencies and cost savings.

Rick Madan, executive director of network services for TEKsystems, said that “the total cost of ownership of software and hardware goes down for end users since they are removed from the business of buying, licensing, and maintaining associated assets.  Furthermore, the revenue-and-service premise for cloud providers is built on a ‘pay as you go’ model so as an end-using company, instead of getting bogged down in the sunk costs of servicing debt related to sometimes idle IT processes and resources, the cloud model allows you only pay for those actually utilized by the business at any given moment.”

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There are operational benefits from the cloud too.  The introduction of cloud computing can be transformative to the operations side of the business.  Tasks that focus on the lifecycle management of hardware and software often get offloaded from the business to the cloud provider.  Tasks like change control, versioning, upgrades and updates, release management, storage, process job management, and data center mirroring are either eliminated or greatly reduced.

IT industry to focus on mobile tech, big data, cloud computing

According to the NAASCOM The IT industry will focus on internet and mobile technology, big data and cloud computingtechnologies for speedy growth in order to achieve USD 300 billion revenue by 2020, Nasscom today said. 

"The IT industry has a vision and aspiration to aggregate USD 300 billion revenue by 2020 by focussing on IT products, Internet and mobile technology, big data, cloud computing and 3G/4G technologies, for speedy growth," NASSCOM Expert Committee Chairperson N R Narayana Murthy told reporters here. 

To achieve the milestone, NASSCOM in July 2012 set up an independent Expert Committee to address key needs of the industry in order to help realise Vision 2020. 

The findings and recommendations of the committee report address the growth opportunity for IT industry by size and potential as well as key enablers for NASSCOM to partner industry in building future growth opportunities, he said.   For complete story see here