155 resultados para virtualization
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La reproducibilidad de estudios y resultados científicos es una meta a tener en cuenta por cualquier científico a la hora de publicar el producto de una investigación. El auge de la ciencia computacional, como una forma de llevar a cabo estudios empíricos haciendo uso de modelos matemáticos y simulaciones, ha derivado en una serie de nuevos retos con respecto a la reproducibilidad de dichos experimentos. La adopción de los flujos de trabajo como método para especificar el procedimiento científico de estos experimentos, así como las iniciativas orientadas a la conservación de los datos experimentales desarrolladas en las últimas décadas, han solucionado parcialmente este problema. Sin embargo, para afrontarlo de forma completa, la conservación y reproducibilidad del equipamiento computacional asociado a los flujos de trabajo científicos deben ser tenidas en cuenta. La amplia gama de recursos hardware y software necesarios para ejecutar un flujo de trabajo científico hace que sea necesario aportar una descripción completa detallando que recursos son necesarios y como estos deben de ser configurados. En esta tesis abordamos la reproducibilidad de los entornos de ejecución para flujos de trabajo científicos, mediante su documentación usando un modelo formal que puede ser usado para obtener un entorno equivalente. Para ello, se ha propuesto un conjunto de modelos para representar y relacionar los conceptos relevantes de dichos entornos, así como un conjunto de herramientas que hacen uso de dichos módulos para generar una descripción de la infraestructura, y un algoritmo capaz de generar una nueva especificación de entorno de ejecución a partir de dicha descripción, la cual puede ser usada para recrearlo usando técnicas de virtualización. Estas contribuciones han sido aplicadas a un conjunto representativo de experimentos científicos pertenecientes a diferentes dominios de la ciencia, exponiendo cada uno de ellos diferentes requisitos hardware y software. Los resultados obtenidos muestran la viabilidad de propuesta desarrollada, reproduciendo de forma satisfactoria los experimentos estudiados en diferentes entornos de virtualización. ABSTRACT Reproducibility of scientific studies and results is a goal that every scientist must pursuit when announcing research outcomes. The rise of computational science, as a way of conducting empirical studies by using mathematical models and simulations, have opened a new range of challenges in this context. The adoption of workflows as a way of detailing the scientific procedure of these experiments, along with the experimental data conservation initiatives that have been undertaken during last decades, have partially eased this problem. However, in order to fully address it, the conservation and reproducibility of the computational equipment related to them must be also considered. The wide range of software and hardware resources required to execute a scientific workflow implies that a comprehensive description detailing what those resources are and how they are arranged is necessary. In this thesis we address the issue of reproducibility of execution environments for scientific workflows, by documenting them in a formalized way, which can be later used to obtain and equivalent one. In order to do so, we propose a set of semantic models for representing and relating the relevant information of those environments, as well as a set of tools that uses these models for generating a description of the infrastructure, and an algorithmic process that consumes these descriptions for deriving a new execution environment specification, which can be enacted into a new equivalent one using virtualization solutions. We apply these three contributions to a set of representative scientific experiments, belonging to different scientific domains, and exposing different software and hardware requirements. The obtained results prove the feasibility of the proposed approach, by successfully reproducing the target experiments under different virtualization environments.
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Para empezar, se ha hecho un análisis de las diferentes posibilidades que se podían implementar para poder conseguir el objetivo del trabajo. El resultado final debe ser, disponer de máquinas para que el sistema operativo fuese independiente del hardware que se tiene instalado en él . Para ello, se decide montar un sistema operativo de base en todos los equipos del laboratorio, que tenga las necesidades mínimas que se necesitan, las cuales son una interfaz gráfica y conexión de red. Hay que intentar reducir el consumo de recursos al máximo con este sistema operativo mínimo para que el rendimiento de las máquinas sea lo más fluido posible para los usuarios. El sistema elegido fue Linux con su distribución Ubuntu [ubu, http] con los módulos mínimos que permita funcionar el software necesario. Una vez se instala el sistema operativo anfitrión, se instala el escritorio Xfce [ubu2, http], que es el más ligero de Ubuntu, pero que proporciona buen rendimiento. Después, se procedió a instalar un software de virtualización en cada equipo. En este caso se decidió, por las buenas prestaciones que ofrecía, que fuera VirtualBox [vir2,http] de Oracle. Sobre éste software se crean tantas máquinas virtuales (con sistema operativo Windows) como asignaturas diferentes se cursan en el laboratorio donde se trabaje. Con esto, se consigue que al arrancar el programa los alumnos pudieran escoger qué máquina arrancar y lo que es más importante, se permite realizar cualquier cambio en el hardware (exceptuando el disco duro porque borraría todo lo que se tuviera guardado). Además de no tener que volver a reinstalar el sistema operativo nuevamente, se consigue la abstracción del software y hardware. También se decide que, para tener un respaldo de las máquinas virtuales que se tengan creadas en VirtualBox, se utiliza un servidor NAS. Uno de los motivos de utilizar dicho servidor fue por aprovechar una infraestructura ya creada. Un servidor NAS da la posibilidad de recuperar cualquier archivo (máquina virtual) cuando haga falta porque haya alguna máquina virtual corrupta en algún equipo, o en varios. Este tipo de servidor tiene la gran ventaja de ser multicast, es decir, permite solicitudes simultáneas. ABSTRACT For starters, there has been an analysis of the different possibilities that could be implemented to achieve the objective of the work. This objective was to have machines for the operating system to be independent of the hardware we have installed on it. Therefore, we decided to create an operating system based on all computers in the laboratory, taking the minimum needs we need. This is a graphical interface and network connection. We must try to reduce the consumption of resources to the maximum for the performance of the machines is as fluid as possible for users. The system was chosen with its Ubuntu Linux distribution with minimum modules that allow us to run software that is necessary for us. Once the base is installed, we install the Xfce desktop, which is the lightest of Ubuntu, but which provided good performance. Then we proceeded to install a virtualization software on each computer. In this case we decided, for good performance that gave us, it was Oracle VirtualBox. About this software create many virtual machines (Windows operating system) as different subjects are studied in the laboratory where we are. With that, we got it at program startup students could choose which machine start and what is more important, allowed us to make any changes to the hardware (except the hard drive because it would erase all we have). Besides not having to reinstall the operating system again, we get the software and hardware abstraction. We also decided that in order to have a backup of our virtual machines that we created in VirtualBox, we use a NAS server. One reason to use that server was to leverage their existing network infrastructure. A NAS server gives us the ability to retrieve any file (image) when we do need because there is some corrupt virtual machine in a team, or several. This is possible because this type of server allows multicast connection.
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El desarrollo de las redes IP ha marcado un creciente interés por unificar todas las comunicaciones sobre una misma infraestructura aprovechando así el cableado existente. Con esta idea nació la tecnología conocida como VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) que consiste en la trasmisión de la voz sobre paquetes IP. El objetivo principal de este proyecto es el diseño e implementación de una infraestructura de voz sobre IP que utilice una red de datos existente. La primera parte del proyecto estará formada por un estudio detallado de los factores que influyen en esta tecnología: codecs, protocolos y otros factores a tener en cuenta. Tras esta parte, aprovechando la experiencia adquirida durante casi tres años en una empresa integradora de servicios, se realizará un caso de estudio en el que, bajo las premisas impuestas por un supuesto cliente, se diseñará una solución que cumpla todos los requisitos y aporte un valor añadido sobre el sistema de telefonía que posee el cliente. El diseño de la mejor solución se hará utilizando productos del fabricante Cisco Systems y, además del coste económico, se valorarán los esfuerzos personales que costará montar dicha solución, incluyendo un valor añadido como es el dotar de buzón de voz y mensajería a todos los usuarios. La última parte del caso de estudio consistirá en la implementación de la infraestructura anteriormente diseñada adquiriendo conocimientos sobre virtualización de servidores utilizando productos de la compañía VMWare (especialista en virtualización), instalación y parametrización de aplicativos de Cisco y, finalmente, la interconexión con la red pública a través de gateways para poder hacer llamadas al exterior. El proyecto finalizará con la presentación de unas conclusiones finales y la exposición de unas líneas futuras de trabajo. ABSTRACT. The IP network development has marked a growing interest in unifying all communications over the same infrastructure taking advantage of the existing wiring. From this idea, a technology was born known as VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) which consists of the transmission of voice packets over the IP network. The main goal of this project is the design and implementation of a VoIP infrastructure for transmitting voice packets over the existing wired network infrastructure on the client. The first part of the project will consist of a detailed study of the factors influencing this technology: codecs, protocols, and other factors to consider. After this part, drawing on the experience gained during nearly three years in an integrated services company, a case study will be made under the premises imposed for a supposed client. A solution that serves all the requirements will be designed and provide an added value on the customer’s telephone system. The design of the best solution will be done using Cisco Systems products and besides the economic cost of the whole solution, the personal effort cost will be valued. The added value named before will be provided with two important applications such as voice mail and instant messaging for all users. The last part of the case study will consist in the implementation of an infrastructure designed to acquire knowledge about virtualization, using VMWare company products (specialist in virtualization), installation and configuration of applications from Cisco Systems and finally the interconnection with the public network through gateway routers in order to make external calls. The project will end with the presentation of final conclusions and exposing future working lines.
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El objetivo principal de este proyecto es estudiar, desde un punto de vista práctico, las posibilidades que ofrece la plataforma de ejercicios de ciberseguridad propuesta por la Universidad de Rhode Island en Estado Unidos, denominada Open Cyber Challenge Platform (OCCP); para ello primero nos ubicaremos dentro del campo de la ciberseguridad, estudiando porqué este área está tomando tanta relevancia, observando datos de estudios reales realizados por instituciones de prestigio, al mismo tiempo estudiaremos la tendencia actual y futura de los ciberataques. Seguidamente, analizaremos el estado del arte de la enseñanza en ciberseguridad y como se está enfocando por parte de las universidades y empresas más importantes en el sector. En esta parte del sector se está imponiendo una novedosa forma para desarrollar el aprendizaje tanto práctico como teórico basada en simular situaciones reales mediante escenarios virtuales. Una vez vistas otras opciones, nos centraremos en OCCP, podremos estudiar el estado de desarrollo de esta plataforma, la situación actual y las principales características. Además detallaremos el primer escenario propuesto por ellos mismos, estudiando los principales componentes, la topología de la red virtual de la empresa virtualizada, los principales ficheros de configuración, e incluso la montaremos y ejecutaremos y podremos observar como el equipo rojo ataca el servidor web de la empresa que lo tiene que proteger el equipo azul y consigue que la web deje de funcionar. También incluiremos una guía de instalación del escenario para que el lector pueda probar con su propio ordenador las posibilidades de esta plataforma. VirtualBox es un programa gratuito de virtualización perteneciente a la empresa Oracle. Más adelante estudiaremos este programa centrándonos en el servicio web ofrecido por VirtualBox ya que es utilizado por la plataforma Open Cyber Challenge Platform como virtualizador o hipervisor. Podremos ver como suelen funcionar los servicios web de este tipo en general y después nos centraremos principalmente en el archivo descriptivo de las interfaces que ofrece esta plataforma. Finalmente, resumiremos los resultados y conclusiones proponiendo un trabajo futuro ya que como hemos dicho esta plataforma está en estado de desarrollo y seguramente al final de la lectura del proyecto incluso el lector se haya podido percatar del potencial tan elevado que tiene una plataforma de este estilo. ABSTRACT. The main objective of this project is to study, from a practical standpoint the possibilities offered by the cybersecurity exercises platform proposed by the University of Rhode Island in United States, called Cyber Challenge Open Platform (OCCP); therefore we will place first in the field of cybersecurity, studying why this area is taking so much relevance, watching real data studies by prestigious institutions and the current and future trend of cyber-attacks. Then, we will discuss the state of the art of teaching cybersecurity and how universities and major companies in the sector are focusing to reach the aims among students or workers. In this part of the sector it is increasing the popularity of a new way to develop both practical and theoretical learning based on simulating real situations through virtual scenarios. Once seen other options, we will focus on OCCP, we can study the state of development of this platform, the current situation and main characteristics. In addition we will detail the first proposed scenario by the very own university, studying the main components, the topology of the virtual network virtualized enterprise, the main configuration files, and even we would mount and execute it. We will see how the red team attacks the web server of the company and get it thrown out. At the same time the blue team will have to protect it. We will also include an installation guide of the scenario so that the reader can test in their own computer the possibilities of this tool. VirtualBox is a free virtualization program belonging to the Oracle enterprise. Later on we will study this program focusing on the web service provided by VirtualBox because it is used by the Open Cyber Challenge Platform like hypervisor. We will see how this kind of web services work and then we will focus mainly on the descriptive file of the interfaces provided by this tool. Finally we summarize the results and conclusions proposing a future work since as we have said this platform is in the development stage and certainly at the end of reading the project even the reader may have realized of such high potential as would have a tool of this kind.
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Um das principais características da tecnologia de virtualização é a Live Migration, que permite que máquinas virtuais sejam movimentadas entre máquinas físicas sem a interrupção da execução. Esta característica habilita a implementação de políticas mais sofisticadas dentro de um ambiente de computação na nuvem, como a otimização de uso de energia elétrica e recursos computacionais. Entretanto, a Live Migration pode impor severa degradação de desempenho nas aplicações das máquinas virtuais e causar diversos impactos na infraestrutura dos provedores de serviço, como congestionamento de rede e máquinas virtuais co-existentes nas máquinas físicas. Diferente de diversos estudos, este estudo considera a carga de trabalho da máquina virtual um importante fator e argumenta que escolhendo o momento adequado para a migração da máquina virtual pode-se reduzir as penalidades impostas pela Live Migration. Este trabalho introduz a Application-aware Live Migration (ALMA), que intercepta as submissões de Live Migration e, baseado na carga de trabalho da aplicação, adia a migração para um momento mais favorável. Os experimentos conduzidos neste trabalho mostraram que a arquitetura reduziu em até 74% o tempo das migrações para os experimentos com benchmarks e em até 67% os experimentos com carga de trabalho real. A transferência de dados causada pela Live Migration foi reduzida em até 62%. Além disso, o presente introduz um modelo que faz a predição do custo da Live Migration para a carga de trabalho e também um algoritmo de migração que não é sensível à utilização de memória da máquina virtual.
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Technology helps the Human Resources (HR) department drive for strategic relevance. These two departments are successfully collaborating on major projects in such business-critical areas as e-recruiting, self-service, training, compensation and talent management. Technology is critical in helping increase efficiency, increase attraction and retention, reduce administration and cut costs. In recent years, HR information systems (HRIS) have become more important than ever, this time as an essential part of a company's information security and knowledge fields. Ill-suited benefits and disorganized resources are history; now is the time for customized, dynamic plans and connected systems. Employees will appreciate the HRIS, business will benefit from the HRIS and the HR department will no longer have to be the ugly duckling of the company.
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Cloud Agile Manufacturing is a new paradigm proposed in this article. The main objective of Cloud Agile Manufacturing is to offer industrial production systems as a service. Thus users can access any functionality available in the cloud of manufacturing (process design, production, management, business integration, factories virtualization, etc.) without knowledge — or at least without having to be experts — in managing the required resources. The proposal takes advantage of many of the benefits that can offer technologies and models like: Business Process Management (BPM), Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Ontologies. To develop the proposal has been taken as a starting point the Semantic Industrial Machinery as a Service (SIMaaS) proposed in previous work. This proposal facilitates the effective integration of industrial machinery in a computing environment, offering it as a network service. The work also includes an analysis of the benefits and disadvantages of the proposal.
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This paper proposes a new manufacturing paradigm, we call Cloud Agile Manufacturing, and whose principal objective is to offer industrial production systems as a service. Thus users can access any functionality available in the cloud of manufacturing (process design, production, management, business integration, factories virtualization, etc.) without knowledge — or at least without having to be experts — in managing the required resources. The proposal takes advantage of many of the benefits that can offer technologies and models like: Business Process Management (BPM), Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Ontologies. To develop the proposal has been taken as a starting point the Semantic Industrial Machinery as a Service (SIMaaS) proposed in previous work. This proposal facilitates the effective integration of industrial machinery in a computing environment, offering it as a network service. The work also includes an analysis of the benefits and disadvantages of the proposal.
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Cybercrime and related malicious activity in our increasingly digital world has become more prevalent and sophisticated, evading traditional security mechanisms. Digital forensics has been proposed to help investigate, understand and eventually mitigate such attacks. The practice of digital forensics, however, is still fraught with various challenges. Some of the most prominent of these challenges include the increasing amounts of data and the diversity of digital evidence sources appearing in digital investigations. Mobile devices and cloud infrastructures are an interesting specimen, as they inherently exhibit these challenging circumstances and are becoming more prevalent in digital investigations today. Additionally they embody further characteristics such as large volumes of data from multiple sources, dynamic sharing of resources, limited individual device capabilities and the presence of sensitive data. These combined set of circumstances make digital investigations in mobile and cloud environments particularly challenging. This is not aided by the fact that digital forensics today still involves manual, time consuming tasks within the processes of identifying evidence, performing evidence acquisition and correlating multiple diverse sources of evidence in the analysis phase. Furthermore, industry standard tools developed are largely evidence-oriented, have limited support for evidence integration and only automate certain precursory tasks, such as indexing and text searching. In this study, efficiency, in the form of reducing the time and human labour effort expended, is sought after in digital investigations in highly networked environments through the automation of certain activities in the digital forensic process. To this end requirements are outlined and an architecture designed for an automated system that performs digital forensics in highly networked mobile and cloud environments. Part of the remote evidence acquisition activity of this architecture is built and tested on several mobile devices in terms of speed and reliability. A method for integrating multiple diverse evidence sources in an automated manner, supporting correlation and automated reasoning is developed and tested. Finally the proposed architecture is reviewed and enhancements proposed in order to further automate the architecture by introducing decentralization particularly within the storage and processing functionality. This decentralization also improves machine to machine communication supporting several digital investigation processes enabled by the architecture through harnessing the properties of various peer-to-peer overlays. Remote evidence acquisition helps to improve the efficiency (time and effort involved) in digital investigations by removing the need for proximity to the evidence. Experiments show that a single TCP connection client-server paradigm does not offer the required scalability and reliability for remote evidence acquisition and that a multi-TCP connection paradigm is required. The automated integration, correlation and reasoning on multiple diverse evidence sources demonstrated in the experiments improves speed and reduces the human effort needed in the analysis phase by removing the need for time-consuming manual correlation. Finally, informed by published scientific literature, the proposed enhancements for further decentralizing the Live Evidence Information Aggregator (LEIA) architecture offer a platform for increased machine-to-machine communication thereby enabling automation and reducing the need for manual human intervention.
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The enterprise management (EM) approach provides a holistic view of organizations and their related information systems. In order to align information technology (IT) innovation with global markets and volatile virtualization, traditional firms are seeking to reconstruct their enterprise structures alongside repositioning strategy and establish new information system (IS) architectures to transform from single autonomous entities into more open enterprises supported by new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. This chapter shows how ERP engage-abilities cater to three distinctive EM patterns and resultant strategies. The purpose is to examine the presumptions and importance of combing ERP and inter-firm relations relying on the virtual value chain concept. From a review of the literature on ERP development and enterprise strategy, exploratory inductive research studies in Zoomlion and Lanye have been conducted. In addition, the authors propose a dynamic conceptual framework to demonstrate the adoption and governance of ERP in the three enterprise management forms and points to a new architectural type (ERPIII) for operating in the virtual enterprise paradigm. © 2012, IGI Global.
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The enterprise management (EM) approach provides a holistic view of organizations and their related information systems. In order to align information technology (IT) innovation with global markets and volatile virtualization, traditional firms are seeking to reconstruct their enterprise structures alongside repositioning strategy and establish new information system (IS) architectures to transform from single autonomous entities into more open enterprises supported by new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. This chapter shows how ERP engage-abilities cater to three distinctive EM patterns and resultant strategies. The purpose is to examine the presumptions and importance of combing ERP and inter-firm relations relying on the virtual value chain concept. From a review of the literature on ERP development and enterprise strategy, exploratory inductive research studies in Zoomlion and Lanye have been conducted. In addition, the authors propose a dynamic conceptual framework to demonstrate the adoption and governance of ERP in the three enterprise management forms and points to a new architectural type (ERPIII) for operating in the virtual enterprise paradigm.
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This dissertation presents and evaluates a methodology for scheduling medical application workloads in virtualized computing environments. Such environments are being widely adopted by providers of "cloud computing" services. In the context of provisioning resources for medical applications, such environments allow users to deploy applications on distributed computing resources while keeping their data secure. Furthermore, higher level services that further abstract the infrastructure-related issues can be built on top of such infrastructures. For example, a medical imaging service can allow medical professionals to process their data in the cloud, easing them from the burden of having to deploy and manage these resources themselves. In this work, we focus on issues related to scheduling scientific workloads on virtualized environments. We build upon the knowledge base of traditional parallel job scheduling to address the specific case of medical applications while harnessing the benefits afforded by virtualization technology. To this end, we provide the following contributions: (1) An in-depth analysis of the execution characteristics of the target applications when run in virtualized environments. (2) A performance prediction methodology applicable to the target environment. (3) A scheduling algorithm that harnesses application knowledge and virtualization-related benefits to provide strong scheduling performance and quality of service guarantees. In the process of addressing these pertinent issues for our target user base (i.e. medical professionals and researchers), we provide insight that benefits a large community of scientific application users in industry and academia. Our execution time prediction and scheduling methodologies are implemented and evaluated on a real system running popular scientific applications. We find that we are able to predict the execution time of a number of these applications with an average error of 15%. Our scheduling methodology, which is tested with medical image processing workloads, is compared to that of two baseline scheduling solutions and we find that it outperforms them in terms of both the number of jobs processed and resource utilization by 20–30%, without violating any deadlines. We conclude that our solution is a viable approach to supporting the computational needs of medical users, even if the cloud computing paradigm is not widely adopted in its current form.
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The increasing needs for computational power in areas such as weather simulation, genomics or Internet applications have led to sharing of geographically distributed and heterogeneous resources from commercial data centers and scientific institutions. Research in the areas of utility, grid and cloud computing, together with improvements in network and hardware virtualization has resulted in methods to locate and use resources to rapidly provision virtual environments in a flexible manner, while lowering costs for consumers and providers. ^ However, there is still a lack of methodologies to enable efficient and seamless sharing of resources among institutions. In this work, we concentrate in the problem of executing parallel scientific applications across distributed resources belonging to separate organizations. Our approach can be divided in three main points. First, we define and implement an interoperable grid protocol to distribute job workloads among partners with different middleware and execution resources. Second, we research and implement different policies for virtual resource provisioning and job-to-resource allocation, taking advantage of their cooperation to improve execution cost and performance. Third, we explore the consequences of on-demand provisioning and allocation in the problem of site-selection for the execution of parallel workloads, and propose new strategies to reduce job slowdown and overall cost.^
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Little is known about students’ perceptions of online enrollment processes. Student satisfaction is part of the assessment required for accreditation, but evidence suggests that college administrators are oriented to retention and graduation rates rather than to consumer perception. The purpose of this descriptive quantitative study was to develop and validate a model that enables the measurement of online enrollment processes by the analysis of the students’ perceptions. The theoretical framework used to support this study was the process virtualization theory while the conceptual framework was based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). TAM is the most valid framework for studying user acceptance of technology and virtual processes. The model was modified, adding a new variable to fit this study. Research questions were used to determine if an institution knows how its students perceive online enrollment processes and how they can become more efficient and effective, improving usage and satisfaction. Descriptive data were collected and analyzed in phases: the pilot study phase, data collection phase, and analysis phases. Inferential statistics were used to draw information from sampled observations of the population; a Cronbach Alpha was conducted to determine the reliability and validity of the model. The study demonstrated that the modified TAM is valid, reliable, and fit to assess the perceptions of the users of online enrollment processes. This study will effect positive social change by providing enrollment managers and administrators information on how to analyze the acceptance their online enrollment processes from the perspective of their students as customers of an institution of higher learning.
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Virtual machines (VMs) are powerful platforms for building agile datacenters and emerging cloud systems. However, resource management for a VM-based system is still a challenging task. First, the complexity of application workloads as well as the interference among competing workloads makes it difficult to understand their VMs’ resource demands for meeting their Quality of Service (QoS) targets; Second, the dynamics in the applications and system makes it also difficult to maintain the desired QoS target while the environment changes; Third, the transparency of virtualization presents a hurdle for guest-layer application and host-layer VM scheduler to cooperate and improve application QoS and system efficiency. This dissertation proposes to address the above challenges through fuzzy modeling and control theory based VM resource management. First, a fuzzy-logic-based nonlinear modeling approach is proposed to accurately capture a VM’s complex demands of multiple types of resources automatically online based on the observed workload and resource usages. Second, to enable fast adaption for resource management, the fuzzy modeling approach is integrated with a predictive-control-based controller to form a new Fuzzy Modeling Predictive Control (FMPC) approach which can quickly track the applications’ QoS targets and optimize the resource allocations under dynamic changes in the system. Finally, to address the limitations of black-box-based resource management solutions, a cross-layer optimization approach is proposed to enable cooperation between a VM’s host and guest layers and further improve the application QoS and resource usage efficiency. The above proposed approaches are prototyped and evaluated on a Xen-based virtualized system and evaluated with representative benchmarks including TPC-H, RUBiS, and TerraFly. The results demonstrate that the fuzzy-modeling-based approach improves the accuracy in resource prediction by up to 31.4% compared to conventional regression approaches. The FMPC approach substantially outperforms the traditional linear-model-based predictive control approach in meeting application QoS targets for an oversubscribed system. It is able to manage dynamic VM resource allocations and migrations for over 100 concurrent VMs across multiple hosts with good efficiency. Finally, the cross-layer optimization approach further improves the performance of a virtualized application by up to 40% when the resources are contended by dynamic workloads.
