There is an emergence of cloud application platforms such as Microsoft’s Azure, Google’s App Engine and Amazon’s EC2/SimpleDB/S3. Startups and Enterprise alike, lured by the...
We consider a system of compute and storage resources geographically distributed over a large number of locations connected via a wide-area network. By distributing the resources,...
Moritz Steiner, Bob Gaglianello Gaglianello, Vijay...
: As cloud services grow to span more and more globally distributed datacenters, there is an increasingly urgent need for automated mechanisms to place application data across thes...
Sharad Agarwal, John Dunagan, Navendu Jain, Stefan...
Digital Preservation deals with the long-term storage, access, and maintenance of digital data objects. In order to prevent a loss of information, digital libraries and archives a...
Many producers of geographic information are now disseminating their data using open web service protocols, notably those published by the Open Geospatial Consortium. There are ma...