Virtualization is a very popular solution to many problems in datacenter management. It offers increased utilization of existing system resources through effective consolidation, negating the need for more servers and additional rack space. Furthermore, it offers essential capabilities in terms of disaster recovery and potential savings on energy and maintenance costs. However, these benefits m...

Based on our own experience in developing software environments for plastic UIs, we argue for a new middleware software infrastructure that extends the functional capabilities of our current windowing systems and toolkits.

FEDERICA will provide an IT infrastructure made of switches, routers and computing nodes that will allow the research networking community to test new protocols and techniques for the future Internet. MANTICORE is a software solution that delivers infrastructure as a service to router devices and IP networks. One of the main goals of FEDERICA is to allow network researchers to share the FEDERIC...

Increasingly, services need to interact with a wide spectrum of devices with varying networking capabilities. Services hosted on a messaging infrastructure need to optimally utilize and exploit the conditions that exist within the local networks. The messaging infrastructure must manage the communication between external resources, services and clients to achieve the highest possible system per...

This article summarizes the key points of a technology and telecommunications infrastructure assessment conducted by the University of Hawai'i Telecommunications and Information Policy Group (TIPG) in partnership with the Pacific Association for Clinical Training (PACT). It includes an overview of telecommunications infrastructure and services in the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) juri...

Business intelligence (BI) is one of the technology areas that have grown tremendously. It describes a set of concepts and methods based on data for improving business decision making. BI capabilities have become one of the important business and technical capabilities. However, BI capabilities have remained largely unexamined in academic literature. Current understandings of BI capabilities ar...

Building on the resource-based perspective, we analyze the combined effects of two highly-valued organizational resources, namely IT capabilities and HRM capabilities, on the competitive performance of SMEs. Three resource configurations are derived from data on 227 SMEs (121 manufacturing SMEs, 106 service SMEs) through a cluster analysis: “IT Capabilities-Dominant Configuration” (ITC), “E-Bus...

Business intelligence (BI) is one of the technology areas that have grown tremendously. BI describes a set of concepts and methods based on data for improving business decision making. BI capabilities have become one of the important business and technical capabilities. However, BI capabilities have remained largely unexamined in academic literature. Current understandings of BI capabilities ar...

This article describes a successful cloud community—BankID—established in Norway, with the cloud infrastructure shared and owned by the Norwegian banking industry. The set of capabilities running on the BankID industry cloud3 enables electronic identification (eID), authentication and electronic signing (e-signing). Using these capabilities, the Norwegian banks have generated significant busine...

We seek to support creativity in science, engineering, and design applications by building infrastructure that offers new capabilities for creative collaborative exploration of complex data in a variety of non-traditional computing environments. We describe particular novel environments and devices, including the Allosphere and the interactive Fogscreen, the software components to support colla...