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Veselý, Tomáš. "Vývoj a provoz PHP aplikací v prostředí Microsoft Azure Platform." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-124738.
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Windows Azure Platform is product of the Microsoft company aimed to host web applications. With this product, Microsoft is reacting on the new trend in IT -- cloud computing. This diploma thesis deals with all the aspects of developing and running PHP applications on Windows Azure Platform. Thesis is divided into two parts -- theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part, Windows Azure Platform is described in detail. The description consists of it's main parts, position in the world of cloud computing, price and main competitors. In the practical part, migration of school PHP application developed during 4IT445 course from LAMP platform to Windows Azure Platform is described. Except the migration itself, the benefits of new platform to application are described. In the thesis conclusion, development and running applications on both platforms is compared. The target of the thesis is to write first complete Czech text about running PHP applications on Windows Azure Platform and to help PHP developers to chose which way to go.
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Hawasli, Ahmad. "azureLang: a probabilistic modeling and simulation language for cyber attacks in Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-240406.
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Cyber-attack simulation is a suitable method used for assessing the security ofnetwork systems. An attack simulation advances step-wise from a certain systementry-point to explore the attack paths that lead to dierent weaknesses inthe model. Each step is analyzed, and the time to compromise is calculated.Attack simulations are primarily based on attack graphs. The graphs areemployed to model attack steps where nodes can represent assets in the system,and edges can represent the attack steps. To reduce the computational cost associatedwith building an attack graph for each specic system, domain-specicattack languages, or DSL for short, are used.The nal product of this thesis work is azureLang, a probabilistic modelingand simulation language for modeling Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.AzureLang is a DSL which denes a generic attack logic for MicrosoftAzure systems. Using azureLang, system administrators can easily instantiatespecic-system scenarios which emulate their Microsoft Azure cloud system infrastructure.After creating the model, attack simulation can be run to assessthe security of the model.Cyberattacksimulering är en lämplig metod som används för att bedöma säkerhetenhos nätverkssystem. En angrepsimulering går stegvis från ett visst systeminmatningspunkt för att utforska angreppsbanorna som leder till olika svagheter i modellen. Varje steg analyseras och tiden för kompromettera beräknas.Attack-simuleringar baseras huvudsakligen på attackgrafer. Graferna används för att modellera angreppssteg där noder kan representera tillgångar i systemet, och kanterna kan representera attackenstegen. För att minska kostnaden för att skapa attackgrafer för varje specifikt system används domänspecifika språk eller DSL förkortat.Den slutliga produkten av detta examensarbete är azureLang, ett probabilistisk hotmodelleringsoch attacksimuleringsspråk för analys av Microsoft Azure Cloud Infrastructure. AzureLang är en DSL som definierar en generisk attacklogik för Microsoft Azure-system. Med hjälp av azureLang kan systemadministratörer enkelt ordna specifika systemscenarier som efterliknar deras Microsoft Azure cloudsystem infrastruktur. Efter att ha skapat modellen kan attack simu-lering köras för att bedöma modellens säkerhet.
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Siddiqui, Muhammad Anas. "Cloud Computing : Evaluation, as a platform for Scania Architecture." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi och medier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-18896.
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Cloud computing has been given a great deal of attention during recent years. Almost all the technology market leaders and leading hosting service providers (like IBM, Microsoft and Verizon) have entered into the Cloud market as Cloud Providers. Cloud computing promises to provide highly available, secure, low cost, agile and highly scalable solution to the consumers. Scania is a global company and one of the world’s leading heavy vehicle manufacturers with 35,000+ employees. All the large organizations such as Scania, aim to constantly update themselves with the latest technology in order to meet their business requirements but, these organizations must always be convinced that there is a strong reason(s) to implement new technology. This research provides the method and criteria in relation to initiating Cloud computing. A number of Scania’s specific business requirements that it is possible to map to the Cloud are addressed in this thesis. The methodology of research is split in two parts. Firstly, the identification of business cases at Scania and their requirements with the Cloud and Secondly, the evaluation and comparison of the functionalities and capabilities of different vendors. The accumulated data is then compared and suitable vendors, according to those business requirements are suggested. This thesis also shares the experience of moving on premise applications to the Cloud. These are Scania specific applications which are currently being hosted in-house. The research also addresses the possibilities of portability between the Cloud providers. Although there is no standardization in relation to Cloud computing, some initiatives such as OpenStack are available and its current position and some application and data migration tools are also discussed. The thesis concludes with a general discussion, recommendations in relation to adapting Cloud computing and selecting the Cloud provider. This recommendation applies to every organization including Scania.
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Göthesson, Richard, and Gustav Hedman. "Autentiseringsprocesser i molnbaserade datortjänster." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20452.
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Tidigare forskning har påvisat brister i olika former av autentiseringsprocesser som leder till autentiseringsattacker. Målet med vår studie är att presentera ett antal riktlinjer som företag och privatpersoner kan följa för att minimera risken för autentiseringsattacker. Metoderna som användes för att komma fram till dessa riktlinjer var kvalitativa där en praktisk observationsstudie, en litteraturstudie samt en enkätundersökning låg till grund för vår insamlade data. Resultatet av studien pekar på att Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services och Microsoft Azure alla har en stark autentiseringsprocess i jämförelse med kritik från tidigare forskning. Enkätundersökningen visade dessutom att olika former av alternativ autentisering, såsom Two Factor Authentication (2FA) och Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), rekommenderas för ett starkt försvar mot autentiseringsattacker.Uppsatsens resultat pekar även på att användarens egenansvar i autentiseringsprocessen är av stor vikt för att minimera risken för autentiseringsattacker. Säkra lösenord bör konstrueras och frekvent bytas ut. Även alternativ autentisering och begränsning av användarens tillgång till känslig information bör tillämpas.Previous research has shown deficiencies in various forms of authentication processes that lead to authentication attacks. The goal of our study is to present a number of guidelines that businesses and individuals can follow to minimize the risk of authentication attacks. The methods used to reach these guidelines were qualitative. They consisted of a practical observational study, a literature review and a survey, which formed the basis of our collected data. The results of the study indicate that Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure all have a strong authentication process in comparison with the criticism of previous research. The survey also showed that different forms of authentication methods, such as the Two Factor Authentication (2FA) and Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), are recommended for a strong defense against authentication attacks.The thesis’ results also points to the user’s own responsibility in the authentication process are essential to minimize the risk of authentication attacks. Secure passwords should be designed and frequently replaced. Alternative authentication and restricted access to sensitive information for the user should also be applied.
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Barzi, Eddie. "Servizi Serverless di Microsoft Azure." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/24298/.
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Questo documento vuole presentare alcuni dei servizi cloud offerti da Microsoft Azure, partendo da una panoramica sul cloud computing e sui vantaggi e svantaggi dell'elaborazione serverless. In particolar modo verranno descritti nel dettaglio tre servizi offerti da Microsoft: Azure App Service, Azure Functions e Azure Durable Functions.
Ci sarà poi un capitolo dedicato a una comparativa generale sugli equivalenti servizi serverless offerti da Amazon AWS, ovvero AWS Lambda per le Azure Functions e AWS Step Functions per Azure Durable Functions.
Infine verrà mostrata la realizzazione di due applicazioni che fanno uso di queste tecnologie, Azure Functions e Azure Durable Functions, procedendo prima con uno sviluppo in locale e poi con il deploy sul cloud.
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Geng, Ningyao. "azureLang: Cyber Threat Modelling in Microsoft Azure cloud computing environment." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-284501.
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When assessing network systems, security has always been one of the priorities.Cyber threat modelling is one of the most suitable methods. From a startingpoint to each valuable asset, the simulation can enable the users to explore certainsecurity weaknesses alongside the attack path. In the end, the time to compromiseshows the security level of the whole system.In principle, most cyber threat models can be built and simulated by attack graphswhere each point in the graph can stand for a certain asset in the network system.However, different systems have different infrastructures and implementations.As a result, it will be more suitable if engineers can develop a domain specificlanguage (DSL) which can be associated with a specific attack graph in order toimprove accuracy and efficiency.In this master thesis work, the final outcome is azureLang, a cyber threat modelinglanguage based on Meta Attack Language (MAL) for Microsoft Azure cloudcomputing environment. Compatible with securiCAD®, a CAD tool developedby Foreseeti AB, a threat model can be built and then be simulated.Vid bedömning av nätverkssystem har säkerhet alltid varit en av prioriteringarna.Bland tusentals metoder är cyberhotsmodellering en av de mest lämpliga. Frånen startpunkt till varje värdefull tillgång kan simuleringen göra det möjligt föranvändare att utforska vissa säkerhetssvagheter längs attackvägen. I slutändanvisar tiden för kompromiss säkerhetsnivån för hela systemet.I princip kan de flesta cyberhotsmodeller byggas och simuleras med attackgraferdär varje punkt i diagrammet kan stå för en viss tillgång i nätverkssystemet. Menolika system har olika infrastrukturer och implementationer. Som ett resultatkommer det att vara mer lämpligt om ingenjörer kan utveckla ett domänspecifiktspråk (DSL) som kan associeras med en specifik attackgrafik för att förbättranoggrannhet och effektivitet.I det här examensarbetet är slutresultatet azureLang, ett språk för modelleringav hothot baserat på Meta Attack Language (MAL) för Microsoft Azure cloudcomputing-miljö. Kompatibel med securiCAD ®, ett CAD-verktyg utvecklat avForeseeti AB, en hotmodell kan byggas och sedan simuleras.
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Winberg, André, and Ramin Alberto Golrang. "Analytics as a Service : Analysis of services in Microsoft Azure." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-47655.
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Bui, Michael, and Magnus Pedersen. "Implementation of a Log Agent in Microsoft Azure : and packaging it to Azure Marketplace." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36334.
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Cloud computing is still in an early stage of development and Microsoft is now investing considerable amount of resources in the cloud. Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform developed by Microsoft and it is continuously evolving, new features are constantly being added and old features are being updated. Integration Software, which is a company that focuses on products for system integration strongly believes that cloud-based solutions will have a significant impact on their future. This is why selling and developing solutions and services for the cloud are strategically important for them. The objective of this dissertation is to investigate Microsoft Azure in general and Azure Marketplace in particular. This investigation consisted of an implementation of a Microsoft Azure application and integrating this application with Azure Marketplace and evaluating the expenses for running the application. The purpose for this project is to gain practical experience and to work with new techniques and help Integration Software better understand Azure Marketplace. The application is a Log Agent which fetches data from an external source and resends the data to an external party (Integration Manager). Our first intention was to package and deploy the application to a newly updated Azure Marketplace. The new Azure Marketplace was never released during this dissertation so we decided to deploy the application to the existing version of Azure Marketplace. This was however not fully successful. We encountered some problems in successfully deploying the application to Azure Marketplace. The evaluations for the cost of running an Azure application were not carried out due to lack of time.
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Agarwal, Dinesh. "Scientific High Performance Computing (HPC) Applications On The Azure Cloud Platform." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cs_diss/75.
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Cloud computing is emerging as a promising platform for compute and data intensive scientific applications. Thanks to the on-demand elastic provisioning capabilities, cloud computing has instigated curiosity among researchers from a wide range of disciplines. However, even though many vendors have rolled out their commercial cloud infrastructures, the service offerings are usually only best-effort based without any performance guarantees. Utilization of these resources will be questionable if it can not meet the performance expectations of deployed applications. Additionally, the lack of the familiar development tools hamper the productivity of eScience developers to write robust scientific high performance computing (HPC) applications. There are no standard frameworks that are currently supported by any large set of vendors offering cloud computing services. Consequently, the application portability among different cloud platforms for scientific applications is hard. Among all clouds, the emerging Azure cloud from Microsoft in particular remains a challenge for HPC program development both due to lack of its support for traditional parallel programming support such as Message Passing Interface (MPI) and map-reduce and due to its evolving application programming interfaces (APIs). We have designed newer frameworks and runtime environments to help HPC application developers by providing them with easy to use tools similar to those known from traditional parallel and distributed computing environment set- ting, such as MPI, for scientific application development on the Azure cloud platform. It is challenging to create an efficient framework for any cloud platform, including the Windows Azure platform, as they are mostly offered to users as a black-box with a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to access various service components. The primary contributions of this Ph.D. thesis are (i) creating a generic framework for bag-of-tasks HPC applications to serve as the basic building block for application development on the Azure cloud platform, (ii) creating a set of APIs for HPC application development over the Azure cloud platform, which is similar to message passing interface (MPI) from traditional parallel and distributed setting, and (iii) implementing Crayons using the proposed APIs as the first end-to-end parallel scientific application to parallelize the fundamental GIS operations.
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Sehgal, Rakesh. "Service-Oriented Architecture based Cloud Computing Framework For Renewable Energy Forecasting." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25867.
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Forecasting has its application in various domains as the decision-makers are provided with a more predictable and reliable estimate of events that are yet to occur. Typically, a user would invest in licensed software or subscribe to a monthly or yearly plan in order to make such forecasts. The framework presented here differs from conventional software in forecasting, as it allows any interested party to use the proposed services on a pay-per-use basis so that they can avoid investing heavily in the required infrastructure.
The Framework-as-a-Service (FaaS) presented here uses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to implement Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). For forecasting, collection of data, its analysis and forecasting responsibilities lies with users, who have to put together other tools or software in order to produce a forecast. FaaS offers each of these responsibilities as a service, namely, External Data Collection Framework (EDCF), Internal Data Retrieval Framework (IDRF) and Forecast Generation Framework (FGF). FaaS Controller, being a composite service based on the above three, is responsible for coordinating activities between them.
These services are accessible through Economic Endpoint (EE) or Technical Endpoint (TE) that can be used by a remote client in order to obtain cost or perform a forecast, respectively. The use of Cloud Computing makes these services available over the network to be used as software to forecast energy for solar or wind resources. These services can also be used as a platform to create new services by merging existing functionality with new service features for forecasting. Eventually, this can lead to faster development of newer services where a user can choose which services to use and pay for, presenting the use of FaaS as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) in forecasting.Master of Science
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Nigro, Michele. "Progettazione di un cluster sul cloud con il framework HPC." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/20316/.
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Nell'ambito del calcolo distribuito, Microsoft HPC Pack offre un importante strumento per la gestione delle risorse computazionali in maniera efficiente orchestrando lo scheduling delle unità di lavoro all’interno dell’infrastruttura. HPC supporta nativamente l’integrazione sul cloud di Microsoft Azure tramite strategie di networking e virtualizzazione ben definite. Dopo una breve presentazione di Prometeia, presso cui il progetto ha avuto luogo, sono presentate nel dettaglio le tecnologie Microsoft utilizzate nel percorso. Segue una presentazione del progetto, che si compone di due passi: il primo consiste nella realizzazione dell’infrastruttura applicativa e HPC sul cloud Azure tramite template automatizzato (realizzazione di macchine virtuali, rete virtuale, installazione dei servizi e di HPC); il secondo passo è la realizzazione di un’applicazione che consenta, in base alle esigenze dell’utente, di creare ed eliminare risorse di calcolo dall’infrastruttura tramite comandi appositamente implementati. Questa soluzione apporta vantaggi di tempo ed economici sia rispetto agli scenari on-premise, in quanto non è più richiesto l’acquisto, la manutenzione e l’aggiornamento di server fisici, sia rispetto a soluzioni cloud più statiche, in cui la presenza di risorse di calcolo inattive per lunghi periodi di tempo producono costi molto più elevati. La parte finale dell’elaborato si concentra sull’analisi dei vantaggi economici che la soluzione presentata apporta, mostrando nel dettaglio le differenze tra i costi delle varie soluzioni offerte da Azure.
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Trifanov, Filip. "Vytvoření monitorovacího řešení pro službu PowerBI." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-444623.
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This master’s thesis deals with design of the monitoring solution for the Power BI service. The thesis is divided into theoretical, analytical and design sections. In the theoretical part describes the theoretical fundamentals, used technologies and analytical tools. The analytical part analyzes the company Intelligent Technologies, competitive solutions and data sources for the design part. The design part proposes its own solution for monitoring the Power BI service, including the costs and benefits of the proposed solution.
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Cacchi, Matteo. "Elasticity in Cloud Computing: Tecnologia e applicazione aziendale presso Onit." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/10237/.
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Il Cloud Computing permette di utilizzare al meglio le risorse distribuite allo scopo di risolvere problemi di computazione su larga scala, e viene distribuito dai provider all'utente finale sotto forma di servizio. Presentati i diversi modelli di distribuzione dei servizi Cloud, si discutono le varie tipologie di servizi offerti. Efficaci meccanismi di elasticità e scalabilità hanno permesso al Cloud Computing di superare lo scoglio iniziale di utilizzo medio dei server al 10%. L'elasticità (rapid elasticity) è l’abilità di acquisire e rilasciare le risorse di un'infrastruttura Cloud su richiesta, l’abilità di un'applicazione di cambiare le sue dimensione durante il suo tempo di esecuzione; la scalabilità è un prerequisito per ottenere una buona elasticità per il sistema, ed è l'abilità che ha un layer di sostenere carichi di lavoro variabili continuando ad adempiere agli obblighi imposti dallo SLA allocando o disallocando risorse computazionali. Le diverse modalità di scaling e il loro utilizzo determinano la scalabilità e di conseguenza l'elasticità del sistema, e sfruttano la virtualizzazione per poter funzionare. Ciò ha portato notevoli benefici perchè aumenta l'utilizzo dei server, migliora l'efficienza del sistema, e dona flessibilità in caso di errori massimizzando il tempo di funzionamento. Sono stati introdotti due esempi di sistemi elastici basati ovviamente sulla virtualizzazione come Amazon Web Services e Microsoft Azure, che dominano il mercato del Cloud Computing e fanno uso dei più efficenti meccanismi d'elasticità. Il cuore di questo elaborato è l'analisi dell'ampliamento dell'adozione del Cloud Computing in azienda Onit Group srl. L'obiettivo è trattare i punti fondamentali per il Cloud Computing, analizzarli e immagazzinare tutte queste conoscenze per analizzare lo stato attuale del Cloud nell'azienda focalizzando l'attenzione sui vantaggi e sugli svantaggi che un sostanziale ampliamento dell'adozione ai sistemi Cloud poteva apportare.
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Ragusa, Gabriele. "Analisi e realizzazione del processo di migrazione di un Data Warehouse." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022.
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Il progetto di tesi ha previsto la realizzazione del processo di migrazione di un Data Warehouse. Questo si è sviluppato in varie fasi ed ha previsto dei processi iniziali di ETL per l'estrazione, la trasformazione ed il caricamento dei dati, per poi proseguire con processi di modifica dei dati con l'uso di tool specifici e di realizzazione dei report richiesti dal Cliente. Il progetto ha previsto la realizzazione del processo di migrazione per due Data Entity differenti, dove per Data Entity si intende un set di report razionalizzati in base alla similarità delle query e dei filtri.
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Orazi, Federico. "Analisi e sviluppo del processo di migrazione del data warehouse di un'azienda automobilistica." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/24963/.
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L'azienda IConsulting lavora da anni su tematiche legate all’ambito della Business Intelligence e ha col tempo collezionato un insieme molto numeroso di clienti per i quali realizza progetti di varia natura. La tesi tratta la mia esperienza di tirocinio in IConsulting durante la quale ho lavorato ad un progetto commissionato da un’azienda molto nota nel settore automobilistico. Questa azienda, che per motivi di privacy viene riferita come Cliente, necessita di valutare e adottare la miglior strategia evolutiva per il sistema di Business Intelligence attualmente in uso, al fine di supportare i propri obiettivi strategici di business. È richiesta l'analisi della situazione attuale (AS-IS) insieme alla valutazione e l'adozione del miglior processo di evoluzione che produca una nuova architettura (TO-BE) che soddisfi le nuove esigenze. Viene quindi progettato e sviluppato un processo di migrazione dal vecchio sistema a quello nuovo che non si limita solamente a replicare quanto già esistente ma anche a migliorarlo, estendendone le capacità analitiche complessive.
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Zambrano, Jesus. "Mobile Cloud Computing: Offloading Mobile Processing to the Cloud." UNF Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/594.
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The current proliferation of mobile systems, such as smart phones, PDA and tablets, has led to their adoption as the primary computing platforms for many users. This trend suggests that designers will continue to aim towards the convergence of functionality on a single mobile device. However, this convergence penalizes the mobile system in computational resources such as processor speed, memory consumption, disk capacity, as well as in weight, size, ergonomics and the user’s most important component, battery life. Therefore, this current trend aims towards the efficient and effective use of its hardware and software components. Hence, energy consumption and response time are major concerns when executing complex algorithms on mobile devices because they require significant resources to solve intricate problems.
Current cloud computing environments for performing complex and data intensive computation remotely are likely to be an excellent solution for off-loading computation and data processing from mobile devices restricted by reduced resources. In cloud computing, virtualization enables a logical abstraction of physical components in a scalable manner that can overcome the physical constraint of resources. This optimizes IT infrastructure and makes cloud computing a worthy cost effective solution.
The intent of this thesis is to determine the types of applications that are better suited to be off-loaded to the cloud from mobile devices. To this end, this thesis quantitatively and
qualitatively compares the performance of executing two different kinds of workloads locally on two different mobile devices and remotely on two different cloud computing providers. The results of this thesis are expected to provide valuable insight to developers and architects of mobile applications by providing information on the applications that can be performed remotely in order to save energy and get better response times while remaining transparent to users.
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Englund, Carl. "Evaluation of cloud-based infrastructures for scalable applications." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Medie- och Informationsteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-139935.
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The usage of cloud computing in order to move away from local servers and infrastructure have grown enormously the last decade. The ability to quickly scale capacity of servers and their resources at once when needed is something that can both be a price saver for companies and help them deliver high end products that will function correctly at all times even under heavy load to their customers. To meet todays challenges, one of the strategic directions of Attentec, a software company located in Linköping, is to examine the world of cloud computing in order to deliver robust and scalable applications to their customers. This thesis investigates the usage of cloud services in order to deploy scalable applications which can adapt to usage peaks within minutes.
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Karamati, Sara. "Towards an MPI-like Framework for Azure Cloud Platform." 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cs_theses/77.
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Message passing interface (MPI) has been widely used for implementing parallel and distributed applications. The emergence of cloud computing offers a scalable, fault-tolerant, on-demand al-ternative to traditional on-premise clusters. In this thesis, we investigate the possibility of adopt-ing the cloud platform as an alternative to conventional MPI-based solutions. We show that cloud platform can exhibit competitive performance and benefit the users of this platform with its fault-tolerant architecture and on-demand access for a robust solution. Extensive research is done to identify the difficulties of designing and implementing an MPI-like framework for Azure cloud platform. We present the details of the key components required for implementing such a framework along with our experimental results for benchmarking multiple basic operations of MPI standard implemented in the cloud and its practical application in solving well-known large-scale algorithmic problems.
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Salgueiro, Rodrigo Umbelino Barata. "The impact of Microsoft Power Platform in streamlining end-to-end business solutions - Internship Report at Microsoft Portugal, Specialist Team Unit." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/123472.
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Internship Report presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Data Science and Advanced AnalyticsNowadays, there is a greater urgency for companies to innovate and digitally transform. Automation and digitalization of processes, coming up with new ways to connect with employees and customers, or investing in a robust infrastructure that can respond and extract insights from the ever-increasing amount of data that is being produced across all sectors of the enterprise: these are all topics that any company needs to have as a top priority if they want to keep up with their competitors and stay relevant in their own markets. The present document describes the activities carried out during a period of 10 months (September 2019 – June 2020, correspondent to the fiscal year of 2020) at Microsoft’s Corporation Portuguese Subsidiary, working as a full-time Technical Specialist. The technical specialist first received extensive technical and commercial training from a vast variety of resources (online resources, one-to-one shadowing, and on-site technical readiness) and after the ramp-up process, he proceeded to drive the business for Microsoft Portugal by conducting customer and partner meetings, and to play his part in the sales motion by providing deep technical expertise and compelling technology demonstrations. The technical specialist oversaw a unified set of Microsoft technologies, called the Power Platform, that bundle together a set of tools such as Power BI for data analysis and visualization, Power Apps for line-of-business application development, Power Automate for workflow automation and RPA capabilities and Power Virtual Agents as an engine for creating and deploying intelligent chatbots. All these components are further enriched and integrated with the Office 365 and Dynamics 365 ecosystems, hundreds of data connectors, advanced database capabilities, artificial intelligence and machine learning models, and the extensibility from the resources available on the Azure Cloud.