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Academic Cloud Computing Research: Five Pitfalls and Five Opportunities
Adam Barker, Blesson Varghese, Jonathan Stuart Ward +1
This discussion paper argues that there are five fundamental pitfalls, which can restrict academics from conducting cloud computing research at the infrastructure level, which is c…
Teaching cloud computing: a software engineering perspective
Ian Sommerville
This short papers discusses the issues of teaching cloud computing from a software engineering rather than a business perspective. It discusses what topics might be covered in a se…
CloudMonitor: Profiling Power Usage
James William Smith, Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Jonathan Stuart Ward +1
In Cloud Computing platforms the addition of hardware monitoring devices to gather power usage data can be impractical or uneconomical due to the large number of machines to be met…
Workload Classification & Software Energy Measurement for Efficient Scheduling on Private Cloud Platforms
James W. Smith, Ian Sommerville
At present there are a number of barriers to creating an energy efficient workload scheduler for a Private Cloud based data center. Firstly, the relationship between different work…
Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise
Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Ian Sommerville, Jurgen Bogaerts +1
This paper describes two tools that aim to support decision making during the migration of IT systems to the cloud. The first is a modeling tool that produces cost estimates of usi…
The Cloud Adoption Toolkit: Supporting Cloud Adoption Decisions in the Enterprise
Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, David Greenwood, James W. Smith +1
Cloud computing promises a radical shift in the provisioning of computing resource within the enterprise. This paper describes the challenges that decision makers face when assessi…