The emergence of Grid and Cloud computing enables in particular small and medium sized companies to exploit new market opportunities by virtualizing part of their IT infrastructure to external providers as well as on-demand established collaboration with partners providing complementary skills within such a Virtual Organisation. In this book a Dynamic Virtual Organisation Concept is presented combining existing work in in the field of economics around the Virtual Enterprise with a more IT technology oriented model from the Grid Computing domain. Starting from this model a set of...
The emergence of Grid and Cloud computing enables in particular small and medium sized companies to exploit new market opportunities by virtualizin...
Service-Oriented Infrastructures including Grid and Cloud Computing are technologies in a critical transition to wider adoption by business. Their use may enable enterprises to achieve optimal IT utilization, including sharing resources and services across enterprises and on-demand utilization of those made available by business partners over the network. This book is an essential reference for researchers and practitioners in service-oriented IT. It analyses a selection of common capabilities (services capturing reusable functionality of IT solutions) that have been applied to tackle...
Service-Oriented Infrastructures including Grid and Cloud Computing are technologies in a critical transition to wider adoption by business. Their ...