New designs for petabyte-scale storage systems are now capable of transferring hundreds of gigabytes of data per second, but lack strong security. We propose a scalable and effici...
The Grid technology is evolving into a global, service-orientated architecture – a universal platform for delivering future high demand computational services. Strong adoption of...
IT service providers are increasingly required to orientate their service portfolio towards the IT support of their consumer’s business processes. This enables diversification a...
Web services provide abstractions for simplifying integration at lower levels of the interaction stacks, they don't yet help simplify integration at higher abstraction levels ...
Fault tolerance is a constant concern in data centers where servers have to run with a minimal level of failures. Changes on the operating conditions or on server demands, and var...