Even if in a typical organization, where applications are deployed within the organization's perimeter, the "trust boundary" is mostly static and is monitored and controlled by the IT department; with the adoption of cloud services, the organization's trust boundary will become dynamic and will...

Even if in a typical organization, where applications are deployed within the organization’s perimeter, the “trust boundary” is mostly static and is monitored and controlled by the IT department; with the adoption of cloud services, the organization’s trust boundary will become dynamic...

Research into computing resource markets has mainly considered the question of which market mechanism provides a fair resource allocation. It has not been discussed how a large variety of resource types influences the liquidity of resources in the market. Markets containing large numbers of...

Based on the promising developments in Cloud Computing technologies in recent years, commercial computing resource services (e.g. Amazon EC2) or software-as-a-service offerings (e.g. Salesforce.com) came into existence. However, the relatively weak business exploitation, participation, and...

This paper presents the design and implementation of the GridEcon Marketplace. In addition to supporting a market mechanism for trading computing resources on a pay-per-use basis, this marketplace also provides an environment for integrating value-added support services. These value-added...

Within this paper, we present the GridEcon Platform, a testbed for designing and evaluating economics-aware services in a commercial Cloud computing setting. The Platform is based on the idea that the exact working of such services is difficult to predict in the context of a market and,...

Cloud computing aims at allowing customers to utilize computational resources and software hosted by service providers. Thus, it shifts the complex and tedious resource and software management tasks typically done by customers to the service providers. Besides promising to eliminate these...

Cloud computing is a revolution in computing architecture, transforming not only the “where” (location) of computing, but also the “how” (the manner in which software is produced and the tools available for the automation of business processes). Cloud computing emerged as we transitioned...

In modern era the pace of shift in technologies trends and demands of companies is very fast. Earlier, most of the enterprises used ERP systems which were integrated software packages with a common database that supported business processes of companies. In addition, they were the backbone of...

Cloud computing (СС) is a recent and significant trend in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) usage paradigm. The research attempts to evaluate the current situation of CC deployment in Latvia and investigate how CС services can improve business performance of Latvian Small and...