19 research outputs found
Implementing the required degree of multitenancy isolation : a case study of cloud-hosted bug tracking system
Implementing the required degree of isolation between tenants is one of the significant challenges for deploying a multitenant application on the cloud. In this paper, we applied COMITRE (COmponent-based approach to Multitenancy Isolation Through request RE-routing) to empirically evaluate the degree of isolation between tenants enabled by three multitenancy patterns (i.e., shared component, tenant-isolated component, and dedicated component) for a cloud-hosted Bug tracking system using Bugzilla. The study revealed among other things that a component deployed based on dedicated component offers the highest degree of isolation (especially for database transactions where support for locking is enabled). Tenant isolation based on performance (e.g., response time) favoured shared component (compared to resource consumption (e.g., CPU and memory) which favoured dedicated component). We also discuss key challenges and recommendations for implementing multitenancy for application components in cloud-hosted bug tracking systems with guarantees for isolation between multiple tenants
INTERFACE OF LEVERAGE AND EARNINGS: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE NIGERIA MANUFACTURING SECTOR, CASE OF NIGRIA BREWERIES PLC
There is no doubt that financial and operating leverage are important because of the way these factors exert significant effect on the level and variability of returns, and consequently on the overall risk of a firm. An efficient mix of the two factors will minimize the incidence of business risk and financial risk. This work is concerned with assessing the variability in the stream of the firms’ residual earnings induced by the use of operating and financial leverages. The study has empirically employed the use of multiple regression analysis to investigate the impact of the two leverages on earnings and the emphasis is on the manufacturing sector. The result shows that sales, operating leverage, financial leverage and combined leverage have significant influence on earnings of NB Plc from 1979 – 2004
Evaluating degrees of tenant isolation in multitenancy patterns : a case study of cloud-hosted Version Control System (VCS)
One of the key concerns of implementing multitenancy (i.e., serving multiple tenants with a single instance of an application) on the cloud is how to enable the required degree of isolation between tenants, so that the required performance of one tenant does not affect other tenants. There is little research which provides empirical evidence on the required degree of isolation between tenants under different cloud deployment conditions. This paper applies COMITRE (COmponent-based approach to Multitenancy Isolation Through request RE-routing) to empirically evaluate the degree of isolation between tenants enabled by multitenancy patterns for cloud-hosted Version Control System (VCS). We implemented three multitenancy patterns (i.e., shared component, tenant-isolated component, and dedicated component) by developing a multitenant component using the FileSystem SCM plugin integrated within Hudson. The study revealed that dedicated component provides the highest degree of isolation between tenants (compared to shared component and tenant-isolated component) in terms of error% (i.e., the percentage of errors with unacceptably slow response times) and throughput. System load of tenants showed no variability, and hence did not influence the degree of tenant isolation for all the three multitenancy patterns. We also provide some recommendations to guide an architect in implementing multitenancy isolation on similar VCS tools like Subversion and CVS
Does Financial Deregulation Spurs Economic Development in Nigeria?
The problem of low investment caused by mismanagement of the financial deregulation process is a worrisome issue that
needs to be addressed. Data spanning 46 years from 1970 to 2016 and which are relevant to variables of study like gross fixed
capital formation, etc were gathered from secondary sources and analyzed using the Auto-Regressive Distribution Lag model.
The result showed that both financial deregulation and investment growth have a long-term but negative significant impact on
economic development. The paper recommends amongst others that the deregulation process needs to be properly
sequenced into the financial syste
Medical cost of Lassa fever treatment in Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
This cross-sectional study sought to estimate the direct medical cost of Lassa fever treatment on patients in South-South  Nigeria. All the 73 confirmed Lassa fever cases admitted in the isolation ward of the Institute Of Lassa Fever Research and  Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) Irrua, in Edo State, Nigeria, between May 2015 and May 2016 were  studied. A checklist was used to collect data on the socio-demographic characteristics and medical cost incurred by the  patients. Data entry and analysis was done using SPSS version 20. The average total direct cost for Lassa fever treatment  was N86,802.63 per patient for the subsidized treatment and N205,558.99 per patient for the unsubsidized treatment.  Medications accounted for the highest unsubsidized payments (N86,929.55; 42.10%) while hospital care accounted for the  highest cost component of he subsidized payments (N19,756.51; 22.76%). Up to 84.28% of medication and 70.8% of  investigations was subsidized making a total of 57.77% subsidy in the average total payments per patient. For an average  Nigerian, direct cost of treatment of Lassa fever is still expensive despite subsidy in medications and investigations.  Therefore efforts geared towards reducing the economic burden of Lassa fever on patients and their families are advocated.Keywords: Lassa fever, medical cost, poverty-reduction, South-South Nigeri
A Systematic Literature Review on Mergers and Acquisitions: A Bibliometric Analysis Approach
Many studies have examined the effects of mergers and acquisitions, but their results vary significantly. Thus,
mergers and acquisitions are one of the most popular corporate restructuring activities undertaken by various
organizations, institutes, companies (both private and public), agencies, and establishments, all in a quest to achieve
the desired aim of the companies. But a pertinent question exists as to if mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have
produced the desired goals and objectives of the companies. Therefore this study aims to examine the results,
empirical preference, and author's opinions of existing literature as to if M&A had produced synergy gains or not.
Bibliometric analysis is the methodological procedure used in this study. A total number of fifty (50) high-profile
literatures were qualitatively examined, and it shows that M&A produced synergy gains to the level of 48%. From
the analysis, M&A was also found not to produce synergy gain to the level of 28%, thus making the remaining 24%
to be associated with authors whose views weren't explicit and those that are undecided to M&A producing synergy
gains. This review study recommends that horizontal mergers and acquisitions be encouraged to increase the
companies' market share, leading to their desired goals and objectiv
Optimal deployment of components of cloud-hosted application for guaranteeing multitenancy isolation
One of the challenges of deploying multitenant cloud-hosted
services that are designed to use (or be integrated with) several
components is how to implement the required degree
of isolation between the components when there is a change
in the workload. Achieving the highest degree of isolation
implies deploying a component exclusively for one tenant;
which leads to high resource consumption and running cost
per component. A low degree of isolation allows sharing of
resources which could possibly reduce cost, but with known
limitations of performance and security interference. This
paper presents a model-based algorithm together with four
variants of a metaheuristic that can be used with it, to provide
near-optimal solutions for deploying components of a
cloud-hosted application in a way that guarantees multitenancy
isolation. When the workload changes, the model based
algorithm solves an open multiclass QN model to
determine the average number of requests that can access
the components and then uses a metaheuristic to provide
near-optimal solutions for deploying the components. Performance
evaluation showed that the obtained solutions had
low variability and percent deviation when compared to the
reference/optimal solution. We also provide recommendations
and best practice guidelines for deploying components
in a way that guarantees the required degree of isolation