Cloud computing: A democratizing force?
TL;DR: An exploration of the empowering and democratizing credentials of cloud computing will be attempted and an exploration of its potential to change many aspects of organizations’ operations, thinking, culture, work and their ability to control global warming is attempted.
About: This article is published in International Journal of Information Management.The article was published on 2013-10-01. It has received 56 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cloud computing & Disruptive innovation.
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TL;DR: The findings indicate that extant cloud computing literature tends to skew towards the technological dimension to the detriment of other under researched dimensions such as business, conceptualization and application domain.
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TL;DR: This paper presents a work-sharing model, called Honeybee, using an adaptation of the well-known work stealing method to load balance independent jobs among heterogeneous mobile nodes, able to accommodate nodes randomly leaving and joining the system.
Abstract: As mobile devices evolve to be powerful and pervasive computing tools, their usage also continues to increase rapidly. However, mobile device users frequently experience problems when running intensive applications on the device itself, or offloading to remote clouds, due to resource shortage and connectivity issues. Ironically, most users’ environments are saturated with devices with significant computational resources. This paper argues that nearby mobile devices can efficiently be utilised as a crowd-powered resource cloud to complement the remote clouds. Node heterogeneity, unknown worker capability, and dynamism are identified as essential challenges to be addressed when scheduling work among nearby mobile devices. We present a work-sharing model, called Honeybee, using an adaptation of the well-known work stealing method to load balance independent jobs among heterogeneous mobile nodes, able to accommodate nodes randomly leaving and joining the system. The overall strategy of Honeybee is to focus on short-term goals, taking advantage of opportunities as they arise, based on the concepts of proactive workers and opportunistic delegator. We evaluate our model using a prototype framework built using Android and implement two applications. We report speedups of up to four with seven devices and energy savings up to 71 percent witheight devices.
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...Cloud computing is already being applied in a number of developing countries [55], but there are some practical issues such as frequent power interruptions, and the need for robust broadband infrastructure [56]....
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TL;DR: The results show that the majority of the cloud computing research is about the "cloud computing adoption" (19%), and it was followed by the "legal and ethical issues" of cloud computing (15%) which are the least attention-grabbing themes in the literature.
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TL;DR: A two-stage framework to tackle social media data analysis is proposed, with a first stage to analyze big and small datasets in a non-big data environment, whereas the second stage analyzes big datasets by applying the first stage machine learning model of stage one.
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...It should also be noted that cloud computing solutions (Bayramusta & Nasir, 2016; Lin & Chen, 2012; Sultan, 2013) could be part of this layer....
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TL;DR: This study contributes to a deepest understanding of the determinants of SaaS adoption by providing a holistic theoretical lens, advancing newer paths of approaching the TOE framework.
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TL;DR: As software migrates from local PCs to distant Internet servers, users and developers alike go along for the ride.
Abstract: As software migrates from local PCs to distant Internet servers, users and developers alike go along for the ride.
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TL;DR: It is argued in this article that cloud computing is likely to be one of those opportunities sought by the cash-strapped educational establishments in these difficult times and could prove to be of immense benefit (and empowering in some situations) to them due to its flexibility and pay-as-you-go cost structure.
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...Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) re likely to be among the main beneficiaries of this computing ervice due to their limited resources which constrain their ability o make large IT investments (Sultan, 2010a,b,c,d, 2011)....
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TL;DR: This essay discusses what makes computers different from other technology and how this difference makes a difference in ethical considerations and why this emerging field is both intellectually interesting and enormously important.
Abstract: Computers are special technology and they raise some special ethical issues. This chapter discusses what makes computers different from other technology and how this difference makes a difference in ethical considerations. It describes computer ethics and shows why this emerging field is both intellectually interesting and enormously important. A typical problem in computer ethics arises because there is a policy vacuum about how computer technology should be used. Computers provide us with new capabilities and these in turn give us new choices for action. Computer ethics include consideration of both personal and social policies for the ethical use of computer technology. The mark of a basic problem in computer ethics is one in which computer technology is essentially involved and there is an uncertainty about what to do and even about how to understand the situation. Hence, not all ethical situations involving computers are central to computer ethics.
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TL;DR: This issue's articles tackle topics including architecture and management of cloud computing infrastructures, SaaS and IaaS applications, discovery of services and data in cloud computing infrastructure, and cross-platform interoperability.
Abstract: Cloud computing is a disruptive technology with profound implications not only for Internet services but also for the IT sector as a whole. Its emergence promises to streamline the on-demand provisioning of software, hardware, and data as a service, achieving economies of scale in IT solutions' deployment and operation. This issue's articles tackle topics including architecture and management of cloud computing infrastructures, SaaS and IaaS applications, discovery of services and data in cloud computing infrastructures, and cross-platform interoperability. Still, several outstanding issues exist, particularly related to SLAs, security and privacy, and power efficiency. Other open issues include ownership, data transfer bottlenecks, performance unpredictability, reliability, and software licensing issues. Finally, hosted applications' business models must show a clear pathway to monetizing cloud computing. Several companies have already built Internet consumer services such as search, social networking, Web email, and online commerce that use cloud computing infrastructure. Above all, cloud computing's still unknown "killer application" will determine many of the challenges and the solutions we must develop to make this technology work in practice.
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TL;DR: Even though the technology faces several significant challenges, many vendors and industry observers predict a bright future for cloud computing as mentioned in this paper, and many experts predict a promising future for the cloud computing.
Abstract: Even though the technology faces several significant challenges, many vendors and industry observers predict a bright future for cloud computing.
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