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CYCLONE Unified Deployment and Management of Federated, Multi-Cloud Applications
Various Cloud layers have to work in concert in order to manage and deploy
complex multi-cloud applications, executing sophisticated workflows for Cloud
resource deployment, activation, adjustment, interaction, and monitoring. While
there are ample solutions for managing individual Cloud aspects (e.g. network
controllers, deployment tools, and application security software), there are no
well-integrated suites for managing an entire multi cloud environment with
multiple providers and deployment models. This paper presents the CYCLONE
architecture that integrates a number of existing solutions to create an open,
unified, holistic Cloud management platform for multi-cloud applications,
tailored to the needs of research organizations and SMEs. It discusses major
challenges in providing a network and security infrastructure for the
Intercloud and concludes with the demonstration how the architecture is
implemented in a real life bioinformatics use case
Healthy Universities: Concept, Model and Framework for Applying the Healthy Settings Approach within Higher Education in England
As part of a Department of Health funded project, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) – working with Manchester Metropolitan University – was commissioned by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), to:
- articulate a model for Healthy Universities whereby the healthy settings approach is applied within the higher education sector
- produce recommendations for the development and operationalisation of a National Healthy Universities Framework for England
- to ensure effective co-ordination of initiatives and propose next steps for progressing the Healthy Universities agenda.
In fulfilment of these objectives, this report provides a background to Healthy Universities, outlines the project implementation process, presents a model, discusses the key dimensions for consideration in formulating a framework, and makes recommendations for taking things forward
The Internet of Hackable Things
The Internet of Things makes possible to connect each everyday object to the
Internet, making computing pervasive like never before. From a security and
privacy perspective, this tsunami of connectivity represents a disaster, which
makes each object remotely hackable. We claim that, in order to tackle this
issue, we need to address a new challenge in security: education
A Provisional Framework for Studying Information Connectivity in Food Networks
Through a discussion of peculiarities of food supply, involving focus on information connectivity, a preliminary framework is sought that underlines joint responsibility in a complete supply chain of actors working in network context to achieve safe, quality and economic provision of products to end-use.Food chains and networks, Complete chain and network approach, Information connectivity, Enterprise modelling, Product traceability, Agribusiness, Agricultural and Food Policy, Farm Management, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Industrial Organization,
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