Observing the clouds : a survey and taxonomy of cloud monitoring

This research was supported by a Royal Society Industry Fellowship and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) grant. Date of Acceptance: 10/12/2014Monitoring is an important aspect of designing and maintaining large-scale systems. Cloud computing presents a unique set of challenges to monitoring including: on-demand infrastructure, unprecedented scalability, rapid elasticity and performance uncertainty. There are a wide range of monitoring tools originating from cluster and high-performance computing, grid computing and enterprise computing, as well as a series of newer bespoke tools, which have been designed exclusively for cloud monitoring. These tools express a number of common elements and designs, which address the demands of cloud monitoring to various degrees. This paper performs an exhaustive survey of contemporary monitoring tools from which we derive a taxonomy, which examines how effectively existing tools and designs meet the challenges of cloud monitoring. We conclude by examining the socio-technical aspects of monitoring, and investigate the engineering challenges and practices behind implementing monitoring strategies for cloud computing.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

A concept for modern virtual telecommunication engineering office

High-performance modern Internet allows internal delivery and complement of attractive (mobile) services in the same way and QoS that are in the LANs. The world economics is widely characterized nowadays via the stable trends that the large and mid-range companies and authorities let in ever greater extent to outsource own engineering services via external smaller service providers. A concept for a modern virtual telecommunication engineering office under use of Service-Oriented Architectures and Cloud Computing technologies has been offered. Multiple use cases for virtual telecommunication engineering office have been discussed. As a significant example, the CANDY Framework and Online Platform have been examined. The important development trends for the CAD for network planning regarding to the tool integration and effective access optimization have been discussed. The CANDY system has been represented as an exhibit at CeBIT 2007,2008, 2011 in Hannover

The circular economy: An interdisciplinary exploration of the concept and application in a global context

There have long been calls from industry for guidance in implementing strategies for sustainable development. The Circular Economy represents the most recent attempt to conceptualize the integration of economic activity and environmental wellbeing in a sustainable way. This set of ideas has been adopted by China as the basis of their economic development (included in both the 11th and the 12th ‘Five Year Plan’), escalating the concept in minds of western policymakers and NGOs. This paper traces the conceptualisations and origins of the Circular Economy, tracing its meanings, and exploring its antecedents in economics and ecology, and discusses how the Circular Economy has been operationalized in business and policy. The paper finds that while the Circular Economy places emphasis on the redesign of processes and cycling of materials, which may contribute to more sustainable business models, it also encapsulates tensions and limitations. These include an absence of the social dimension inherent in sustainable development that limits its ethical dimensions, and some unintended consequences. This leads us to propose a revised definition of the Circular Economy as “an economic model wherein planning, resourcing, procurement, production and reprocessing are designed and managed, as both process and output, to maximize ecosystem functioning and human well-being”

EFFICIENT AND FLEXIBLE MANAGEMENT OF ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

The growing awareness of the substantial environmental footprint of Information System has increasingly focused corporate transformation efforts on the efficient usage of Information Technology. In this context, we provide a new concept to enterprise IS operation and introduce a novel adaptation framework that harmonizes operational requirements with efficiency goals. We concretely target elastic n-tier applications with dynamic on-demand resource provisioning for component servers and implement an adaptation engine prototype. Our framework forecasts future user behavior, analyzes the impact of workload on system performance, evaluates the economic impact of different provisioning strategies, and derives an optimal operation strategy. More generally, our adaptation engine optimizes IT system operation based on a holistic evaluation of the key factors of influence. In the evaluation, we systematically investigate practicability, optimization potential, as well as effectiveness. Additionally, we show that our framework allows flexible IS operation with up to a 40 percent lower cost of operation