Category: Cloud Computing
Non-Functional Requirements in Systems and Software Engineering
Non-Functional Requirements, quality attributes, architecturally significant requirements, extra-functional requirements, or whatever you call them, are the main driving force behind the key design or development decisions in any large scale software-intensive system development. It is widely recognized that quality attributes of a system largely depend on the overall architecture of such systems. Hence, it is…
Cloud Computing: Real or Fad!
While there are several unanswered questions about the viability, risks, and advantages of Cloud Computing, there are a growing number of signs that this emerging paradigm of computing is not a new technological fad. Rather its real and has been based on mature and successful technologies such as virtualization, Grid Computing, and Utility Computing. Apart…
New Course on Cloud Computing
I have another exciting news with regards to our ongoing activities in the area of Cloud computing research and education. The exciting news is that we will be offering a brand new course on Cloud computing from Spring 2011 at the IT University of Copenhagen. I just heard that the course proposal has received green…
Role of Cloud Computing in Future of IT
Debate about the advantages and risks of Cloud Computing is heating up in industrial and academic circles. Proponents and skeptics appear to have forceful arguments to support their positions. This situation leaves an increasing number of practitioners and business executives forced to look for reliable sources of information that can help them to separate realty…
A day in Paris with EASI-Clouds Partners
A couple of weeks ago, I was in Paris to attend the EASI-Clouds partners’ meeting called to form a common vision of the project. This was an interesting day with full of presentations, discussions, and debates. It was decided that the overall objective of EASI-Clouds is not to focus on “Yet Another Cloud Stack”; rather…
Cloud Computing Demystified Day
Following on my previous post about organizing a day on Cloud Computing, I like to share the development about organizing the event. Each of the supporters for this event, IT University of Copenhagen,Alexandra Institute, CFIR (Copenhagen Finance IT Region) , and National IT & Telecom Agency have been mobilizing their networks to spread the word…
EASI-Clouds gets green signal from ITEA!!!
It is a fantastic news that ITEA has given our PO named “EASI-Clouds” a thumb up and invited us to submit a full project proposal. All the consortium partners from five countries put a lot of effort in preparing a very competitive PO and now more hard work would be required for prepare a high…
Cloud Computing Demystified
Like everywhere else in the World, Cloud computing is also gaining a lot of attention from IT researchers and practitioners in Denmark. I noticed this trend since my arrival in Copenhagen towards the end of 2009. Danish public and private sectors appear to be highly interested in gaining more understanding of the pros and cons…