As utility computing is widely deployed, organizations and researchers are turning to the
next generation of cloud systems: federating public clouds, integrating private and public …

The cloud concept promises computing as a utility. More and more functions are moved to
cloud environments. But this transition comes at a cost: security and privacy solutions have …

Distributed Denial of Service attacks are a growing threat to organizations and, as defense
mechanisms are becoming more advanced, hackers are aiming at the application layer. For …

We propose Hogna, a platform for deploying self-managing web applications on cloud. The
platform enables the deployment of the applications based on the automation of a set of …

On-demand access to computing resources asa-service has the potential to allow
enterprises to temporarily scale out of their private data center into the infrastructure of a …

This paper presents a flexible deployment service for cloud computing. The service
facilitates the specification and the execution of cloud deployment plans for applications. An …

Cloud computing provides users the ability to access shared, online computing resources.
However, providers often offer their own proprietary applications, interfaces, APIs and …

As usage of cloud computing increases, customers are mainly concerned about choosing
cloud infrastructure with sufficient security. Concerns are greater in the multitenant …

Anomaly detection is playing an increasingly important role in network security, and the
ability to detect and process anomalies for big data in real-time is a difficult task. In this …

Cloud computing is the rapidly evolving area that offers the potential for federal agencies of
all the sizes to increase flexibility and efficiency. A cloud broker acts as an intermediary …