To be competitive, Enterprises are collecting and analyzing increasingly large amount of data in order to derive business insights. However, there are at least two challenges to m...
BPEL is the de facto standard for business process modeling in today's enterprises and is a promising candidate for the integration of business and Grid applications. Current ...
Active storage clouds are an attractive platform for executing large data intensive workloads found in many fields of science. However, active storage presents new system managem...
—In cloud computing, clients usually outsource their data to the cloud storage servers to reduce the management costs. While those data may contain sensitive personal information...
Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers make guarantees about quality attributes such as availability. However, although one of the most important quali...