The benefits of cloud computing make it appealing to a wide range of organizational customers: from small and medium enterprises to non- government organizations, which lack the expertise or resources to manage a complex and costly internal information technology (IT) infrastructure, to large...

As more organizations move toward the use of cloud computing, inevitably they'll be storing and/or processing personal data on the cloud. Organizations are putting themselves at risk if they're not in tune with the privacy protection and legal requirements associated with the use of the cloud....

The elastic provisioning of resources and the capability to adapt to changing resource demand and environmental conditions on-the-fly are, probably, key success factors of cloud computing. Live migration of virtual resources is of pivotal importance in achieving such key properties. However, the...