A quantitative analysis of current security concerns and solutions for cloud computing

The development of cloud computing services is speeding up the rate in which the organizations outsource their computational services or sell their idle computational resources. Even though migrating to the cloud remains a tempting trend from a financial perspective, there are several other aspects that must be taken into account by companies before they decide to do so. One of the most important aspect refers to security: while some cloud computing security issues are inherited from the solutions adopted to create such services, many new security questions that are particular to these solutions also arise, including those related to how the services are organized and which kind of service/data can be placed in the cloud. Aiming to give a better understanding of this complex scenario, in this article we identify and classify the main security concerns and solutions in cloud computing, and propose a taxonomy of security in cloud computing, giving an overview of the current status of security in this emerging technology.

People semantic description and re-identification from point cloud geometry

The automatic extraction of biometric descriptors of anonymous people is a challenging scenario in camera networks. This task is typically accomplished making use of visual information. Calibrated RGBD sensors make possible the extraction of point cloud information. We present a novel approach for people semantic description and re-identification using the individual point cloud information. The proposal combines the use of simple geometric features with point cloud features based on surface normals.

Sintesi e coordinazione di leganti Ciclopentadienilici O-Multifunzionalizzati

The introduction of hydroxyl groups into ligands is able to transfer high hydrophilic features to the related metal systems. The atom-economy synthetic procedure adopted which consists in the one-step Cyclopentene-oxide ring opening, quantitatitatively affords stereoselective formation of the multi-hydroxyl rac-1,2,4- C5H2[CH(CH2)3CHOH]3 Cpººº ligand1. Rh complexation of Cpººº gives rise to a novel class of water-soluble complexes (L,L)RhCpººº (LL=NBD 1, COD 2, CH2CH2 3, CO 4) (Scheme 1) characterized by their spectroscopic features (ESI-MS, IR, 2D NMR, n.O.e.). The X-ray diffraction studies of 1a reveal the occurrence of one couple of enantiomeric pairs in the crystal structure, whilst the crystal packing shows an interesting self-organization in chains of dimeric units of 1a, promoted by strong intermolecular hydroxyl H-bonding. This effect has been exploited by performing VT NMR experiments in different solvents (CDCl3, Py, DMSO). Unpredictably, in the absence of chiral tag, 1 exhibits solvent-dependent chiroptical properties (CD, αD^ 25), which are correlated to UV transitions and DFT calculations. The intra/inter molecular H-binding is crucial in driving the equilibrium between the observed atropisomers 1a and 1b, by varying the planar chirality on the two π-complexes.

Green Cloud Computing: una rassegna comparativa

La rapida crescita di Internet e del numero di host connessi sta portando sempre di più alla nascita di nuove forme di tecnlogie ed applicazioni serverside, facendo del client un thin-client. Il Cloud Computing offre una valida piattaforma a queste nuove tecnologie, ma esso si deve confrontare con diverse problematiche, fra cui la richiesta energetica sempre più crescente, che si ripercuote su un'inevitabile aumento dei gas serra prodotti indirettamente. In questa tesi analizzeremo i problemi energetici legati al Cloud Computing e le possibili soluzioni, andando infine a creare una tassonomia fra i diversi Cloud Computing più importanti sul mercato attuale.

Garanzie del servizio in ambienti di cloud computing: uno studio sperimentale

Nel corso di questa tesi analizzeremo che cos'è il cloud computing, illustrando i contratti di service level agreement e le soluzioni presenti nel mercato.

Progettazione e Sviluppo di un Sistema Cloud P2P

La tesi si colloca nell'ambito del Cloud Computing, un modello in grado di abilitare l’accesso in rete in maniera condivisa, pratica e on-demand, di diverse risorse computazionali, come potenza di calcolo o memoria di massa. Questo lavoro ha come scopo la realizzazione di una Cloud privata, per la fornitura di servizi, basata su un’architettura P2P. L’elaborato vuole studiare il caso di un sistema P2P di livello infrastruttura (IaaS) e propone la realizzazione di un prototipo capace di sostenere un insime basilare di API. Verranno utilizzati protocolli di gossip per la costruzione dei servizi fondamentali.