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Cloud Infrastructure for Tools as a Service (TaaS)
It is becoming more and more clear that Cloud computing is poised to become mainstream mechanism of providing IT infrastructure despite all the reservations whatsoever. More and more communities are being formed to leverage cloud computing technologies. One of such communities is model driven engineering and cloud computing (CloudMDE), who recently organized a workshop in…
NordiCloud: Nordic Symposium on Cloud Computing & Internet Technologies!
Given the increasing interest in exploring the opportunities that Cloud computing and “everything as a service” (software/platform/infrastructure/data as a service on the cloud) can offer to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of IT infrastructure in public as well as private sector, several initiatives are being taken to support R&D and commercial efforts in Nordic countries.…
Outsourcing from Danish Financial Sector
A few months ago, I was interviewed for a research study on IT outsourcing from Danish financial sector, whose union commissioned a research company named Oxford research for this task. The report from that research will be released soon. I am going to share the excerpts from my interview for that research here. The interview…
Contrasting Software Design with Engineering Design
Software design is attracting significant efforts as many researchers have been investigating different aspects of software design from knowledge- and human-intensive undertaking. We assert that software design discipline can benefit from leveraging the body of knowledge and the best practices developed in other design disciplines, e.g., engineering design. We believe that software engineering community needs…
Private Cloud with Open Source Software
A few months ago, I wrote a post on our efforts to build a private cloud infrastructure with open source. This was a very exciting and interesting undertaking mainly done through a project carried out one of my students, Zoran Pantić. After that post, there has been several requests for the relevant documents describing our…
WICSA/ECSA 2012 in Helsinki – 20-24 August, 2012.
After a successful gathering of Global Software Engineering Conference last year, another premier conference will be heading to Helsinki in the coming summer. And that will be a joint gathering of WICSA and ECSA communities under the name of WICSA/ECSA 2012 from 20 – 24 August. This event carries a huge significance as it would…
Unique Challenges of Global Software Engineering in Europe
Global Software Engineering (GSE) has become a global phenomenon and a huge number of researchers and practitioners have been exploring the challenges of developing software in global arrangement, also called global sourcing, and how those challenges can be addressed. However, there has been relatively less attention to the unique challenges caused by a particular geographical…
Architecting in Global Software Engineering
Architecting and architectures of software intensive systems are known to have significant role and impact on software development processes and practices, and on the quality of the developed system (i.e., software or services). Hence, it is important that there is alignment between architecting practices, architectural artefacts, and software development paradigms – Business, Architecture, Process, and…
Building a private cloud for an academic environment
While the perceived and real technical and soio-technical concerns about public cloud solutions may be discouraging many organizations from migrating and/or using public clouds, many organizations are resorting to solutions involving private and community clouds. The increasing trend of private clouds is also making inroads into academic circles where a large amount of data may…
Cloud Computing – Adoption Barriers
Organizations and practitioners are well aware, and largely convinced, of the claimed benefits of cloud computing, however, they are concerned about the general lack of knowledge about the potential uncertainties and risks involved in adopting cloud computing. This is one of the conclusions from the first phase of our research on cloud computing adoption barriers.…