Cloud-Based Booking Platforms in Warehouse Operations

CloudNotes: Annotation Management in Cloud-Based Platforms

We present an annotation management system for cloud-based platforms, which is called CloudNotes. CloudNotes enables the annotation management feature in the scalable Hadoop and MapRedue platforms. In CloudNotes system, every piece of data may have one or more annotations associate with it, and these annotations will be propagated when the data is being transformed through the MapReduce jobs. S...

Scalability of Platforms for Data Warehouse Applications

In the past, academics and commercial vendors have categorised parallel DBMS software architectures on the basis of hardware resource sharing. This approach fails to give insight into the DBMS's performance characteristics. Our alternative approach to categor-ising DBMS architectures is based on the way that processes and threads are organised to cooperate in complex query processing associated...

IBM's Analytic Warehouse Cloud Service

Moving data warehousing into the cloud is a major opportunity for enterprises. It is also a challenge for traditional database management technology. Some of the novel requirements for a successful cloud data warehouse include simplicity (no tuning), seamless scalability, security, efficient data movement and integration with third-party tools. IBM addresses these challenges through its analyti...

Managing Clouds in Cloud Platforms

Managing cloud services is a fundamental challenge in todays virtualized environments. These challenges equally face both providers and consumers of cloud services. The issue becomes even more challenging in virtualized environments that support mobile clouds. Cloud computing platforms such as Amazon EC2 provide customers with flexible, on demand resources at low cost. However, they fail to pro...

Warehouse Operations Revisited - Novel Challenges and Methods