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Enhancing cloud computing environments using a cluster as a service

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posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by Michael Brock, Andrzej GoscinskiAndrzej Goscinski
The emergence of cloud computing has caused a significant change in how IT infrastructures are provided to research and business organizations. Instead of paying for expensive hardware and incur excessive maintenance costs, it is now possible to rent the IT infrastructure of other organizations for a minimal fee. While the existence of cloud computing is new. The elements used to create clouds have been around for some time. Cloud computing systems have been made possible through the use of large-scale clusters, service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, and virtualization. While the idea of offering resources via Web services is commonplace in cloud computing, little attention has been paid to the clients themselves specifically, human operators. Despite that clouds host a variety of resources which in turn are accessible to a variety of clients, support for human users is minimal.

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Title of book

Cloud computing : principles and paradigms

Series

Wiley series on parallel and distributed computing

Chapter number

7

Pagination

193 - 220

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Place of publication

Hoboken, N. J.

ISBN-13

9780470887998

ISBN-10

0470887990

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2011, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Extent

25

Editor/Contributor(s)

R Buyya, J Broberg, A Goscinski

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