Cloud Computing in Education: The Intersection of Challenges and Opportunities

Author(s):  
Ivan I. Ivanov
Author(s):  
Mousa Abdoh ◽  
Nael Salman

Healthcare service costs are rising all over the world. That is mainly due to the lack of healthcare professionals and IT services.  Cloud computing is an emerging trend that provides a robust infrastructure that enables delivering low-cost services over the internet. In this paper, we conducted an analytical study on the e-health services in Palestine to investigate the current state-of-art and examine all challenges and opportunities to benefit from this technology. Collected data has been analyzed and the results revealed that there is a clear gap between the IT service models provided by Palestinian healthcare service provider, and the potential models based on latest IT trends; mainly, cloud computing. 


Author(s):  
Kyuseok Shim ◽  
Sang Kyun Cha ◽  
Lei Chen ◽  
Wook-Shin Han ◽  
Divesh Srivastava ◽  
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Author(s):  
Burak Kantarci ◽  
Hussein T. Mouftah

Cloud computing combines the advantages of several computing paradigms and introduces ubiquity in the provisioning of services such as software, platform, and infrastructure. Data centers, as the main hosts of cloud computing services, accommodate thousands of high performance servers and high capacity storage units. Offloading the local resources increases the energy consumption of the transport network and the data centers although it is advantageous in terms of energy consumption of the end hosts. This chapter presents a detailed survey of the existing mechanisms that aim at designing the Internet backbone with data centers and the objective of energy-efficient delivery of the cloud services. The survey is followed by a case study where Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP)-based provisioning models and heuristics are used to guarantee either minimum delayed or maximum power saving cloud services where high performance data centers are assumed to be located at the core nodes of an IP-over-WDM network. The chapter is concluded by summarizing the surveyed schemes with a taxonomy including the cons and pros. The summary is followed by a discussion focusing on the research challenges and opportunities.


Author(s):  
Faraz Fatemi Moghaddam ◽  
Mohammad Ahmadi ◽  
Samira Sarvari ◽  
Mohammad Eslami ◽  
Ali Golkar

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Gizealew Alazie Dagnaw ◽  
Sisay Ebabye Tsige

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 4048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jones Luís Schaefer ◽  
Julio Cezar Mairesse Siluk ◽  
Patrícia Stefan de Carvalho ◽  
José Renes Pinheiro ◽  
Paulo Smith Schneider

The use of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, and Big Data, is increasing as tools to assist the management of data and information related to energy systems grow. This allows for greater flexibility, scalability of solutions, optimization of energy use, and management of energy devices. In this sense, the objective of this research is to present the basic elements and requirements for the energy cloud and its management and discuss the main management challenges and opportunities for the development and diffusion of the energy cloud. This study was based on a systematic review carried out to identify the elements that compose the energy cloud and what is necessary for its management, and to list the challenges and opportunities that may be explored by researchers and practitioners. The results show that the layout for the energy cloud and its management can be structured in layers and management support blocks’ format. It was found that 70 basic elements make up the main layers and 36 basic elements make up the management support blocks. The findings of this article also provide insights into the technical, scientific, and management development necessary for the evolution of energy systems toward the cloud computing environment.


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