M. Lorenz, Linda Rath-Wiggins, Wilfried Runde, A. Messina, P. Sunna, G. Dimino, M. Montagnuolo, R. Borgotallo
{"title":"Media Convergence and Cloud Technologies","authors":"M. Lorenz, Linda Rath-Wiggins, Wilfried Runde, A. Messina, P. Sunna, G. Dimino, M. Montagnuolo, R. Borgotallo","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH009","url":null,"abstract":"Why do media organizations look out for cloud storage? In short, the media industry as a whole is facing various challenges. Due to digital convergence there is more material, less time, and multiple channels to fill, while budgets get smaller. TV, video on demand, and mobile content have become big drivers in pushing a search for innovative storage solutions. In addition to that, the opportunity to work with raw data, which can be used for deeper analysis, mapping, visualization, and personalized services is another aspect of why there is a need for novel storage solutions, preferably in the cloud. The media industry could lower production costs and increase speed to market of time critical reporting. This book chapter provides an overview of how far VISION Cloud can provide novel concepts for these demands.","PeriodicalId":412154,"journal":{"name":"Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122812870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cloud Computing for Earth Observation","authors":"R. Cossu, C. D. Giulio, F. Brito, D. Petcu","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter elaborates on the impact and benefits Cloud Computing may have on Earth Observation. Earth Observation satellites generate in fact Terato Peta-bytes of data, and Cloud Computing provides many capabilities that allow an efficient storage and exploitation of such data. Several scenarios related to Earth Observation activities are analyzed in order to identify the possible benefits from the adoption of Cloud Computing. As concrete proofs-of-concept, several activities related to Cloud Computing in the context of Earth Observation are exposed and discussed. Technical details are provided for a particular framework used by Earth Observation applications that has made the transition from using Grid services towards using Cloud services. A special attention is given to the avoidance of the vendor-lock-in problem.","PeriodicalId":412154,"journal":{"name":"Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126345370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Telecommunication Industry","authors":"Fredrik H. Solsvik, Michel Dao","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412154,"journal":{"name":"Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123457425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lucia Bonelli, Luisa Giudicianni, Angelo Immediata, Antonio Luzzi
{"title":"Compliance in the Cloud","authors":"Lucia Bonelli, Luisa Giudicianni, Angelo Immediata, Antonio Luzzi","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH008","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the huge economic, handling, and computational benefits of the cloud technology, the multitenant and geographically distributed nature of clouds hides a large crowd of security and regulatory issues to be addressed. The main reason for these problems is the unavoidable loss of physical control that costumers are forced to accept when opting for the cloud model. This aspect, united with the lack of knowledge (i.e. transparency) of the vendor’s infrastructure implementation, represents a nasty question when costumers are asked to respond to audit findings, produce support for forensic investigations, and, more generically, to ensure compliance with information security standards and regulations. Yet, support for security standards compliance is a need for cloud providers to overcome customers hesitancy and meet their expectations. In this context, tracking, auditing, and reporting practices, while transcending the compliance regimes, represent the primary vehicle of assurance for security managers and auditors on the achievement of security and regulatory compliance objectives. The aim of this chapter is to provide a roundup of crucial requirements resulting from common security certification standards and regulation. Then, the chapter reports an overview of approaches and methodologies for addressing compliance coming from the most relevant initiatives on cloud security and a survey of what storage cloud vendors declare to do in terms of compliance. Finally, the SIEM-based approach as a supporting technology for the achievement of security compliance objectives is described and, the architecture of the security compliance component of the VISION Cloud architecture is presented.","PeriodicalId":412154,"journal":{"name":"Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124959247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, A. Voulodimos, D. Kyriazis
{"title":"Commercial and Distributed Storage Systems","authors":"Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, A. Voulodimos, D. Kyriazis","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412154,"journal":{"name":"Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122792375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Formisano, Lucia Bonelli, K. Balraj, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg
{"title":"Cloud Access Control Mechanisms","authors":"C. Formisano, Lucia Bonelli, K. Balraj, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412154,"journal":{"name":"Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124987654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flashing in the Cloud","authors":"Jalil Boukhobza","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.CH015","url":null,"abstract":"Data and storage systems are one of the most important issues to tackle when dealing with cloud computing. Performance, in terms of data transfer and energy cost, predictability, and scalability are the main challenges researchers are faced with, and new techniques for storing, managing, and accessing huge amounts of data are required to make cloud computing technology feasible. With the emergence of flash memories in mass storage systems and the advantages it can provide in terms of speed and power efficiency as compared to traditional disks, one must rethink the storage system architectures accordingly. Indeed, the integration of flash memories is considered as a key technology to leverage the performance of data-centric computing. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce flash memory storage systems by focusing on their specific architectures and algorithms, and finally their integration into servers and data centers.","PeriodicalId":412154,"journal":{"name":"Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127991104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}