As enterprise storage needs grow, it is challenging to manage storage systems. The costs of locally managing, supporting, and maintaining resilience in storage systems has skyrock...
-- In the database outsourcing paradigm, a data owner (DO) delegates its DBMS administration to a specialized service provider (SP) that receives and processes queries from clients...
Outsourcing of work to support software development and services is seen primarily as a transfer of labor to another shore. But intellectual property, as software, is transferred a...
Gio Wiederhold, Amar Gupta, Rajat Mittal, Erich J....
As an emerging trend in outsourcing, cooperative sourcing is the merging of similar processes of several firms when, for example, several banks merge their payments processing and...
Daniel Beimborn, Hermann-Josef Lamberti, Tim Weitz...
With the popularity of location-based services and the abundant usage of smart phones and GPS enabled devices, the necessity of outsourcing spatial data has grown rapidly over the...
Ling Hu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Spiridon Bakiras, Cyrus Sha...