Addressing the Challenges of E-government in Developing Countries through Public-Private Partnership Model Based on Cloud Computing

Summary form only given. Industry has been wrestling with the complexity of managing business systems for years. The challenge stems from the variety of application and IT resource providers that enterprises use to build their business systems. A range of management systems co-exist to manage the breadth of resources. The management industry and customers have an opportunity to take advantage of the industry trend towards using Web services for business integration and moving to service oriented architectures for business. It is now possible to garner these same advantages seen in business for management. Building manageable resources and management systems on a Web services foundation is going to cause a profound shift in how enterprises and vendors manage their IT resources in the future. Embracing this shift is going to create more flexible IT infrastructures, better integration of business and IT objectives, and greater end to end management of both IT infrastructures and business processes. This presentation provides a bottoms-up tutorial of Web services distributed management (WSDM), the new OASIS Standard that provides the first step in solving this classic management integration problem. The session will begin with an overview of the SOA based management architecture and WSDM's place in that architecture relative to other industry standards and initiatives. The technical tutorial will begin with an introduction on WSDL and WS-addressing, specifications on which WSDM depends. The presenters will build on this with an overview of the Web services for resource framework (WSRF) and Web services notification (WSN) OASIS specifications and discuss how they are used by WSDM. Finally, the session will explore WSDM components, management using WS (MUWS) and WSDM management of Web services (MOWS). MUWS defines how to represent and access the manageability interfaces of any IT resource as Web services. MOWS defines how to manage Web services as resources and how to describe and access that manageability using MUWS. Concrete customer issues solved by WSDM will also be highlighted as well as how CIM modeled resources can be accessed using WSDM. Apache MUSE and IBM Developerworks Toolkits will be used to illustrate the programming techniques

Mobile Cloud Computing has become as a new IT paradigm because of the growth of mobile device like smartphone and appearance of Cloud Computing environment. This mobile cloud environment provides various services and IT resources according to users‘ requests, so an effective management of service and IT resources is required. Hence, this paper designs a profile on mobile cloud service platform in order to provide distributed IT resources and services to users based on context-awareness information. As the profile proposed in this paper uses context-aware information, it enables to provide more accurate personalized services and manage distributed IT resources.KeywordsCloud computingContext-awareProfileIntelligence ServiceMobile cloud computing

This paper for the 20th anniversary issue of the Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) looks back on the last ten years of research on two related areas highlighted in Tan and Gallupe’s (1999) manifesto for research on global information management in the decade ahead: global enterprise management and global management of information resources. In particular, the paper examines the relationship between the structure and governance of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the structure and governance of IT resources in MNEs. Early IS research hypothesized alignment between enterprise organization structure and the structure of the IT function in high-performing organizations. However, research on “structure” in both MNEs and IT resources shifted to the concept of “governance”. This paper argues that IT organization design (structure and governance in combination) should be the focus of future research on IT resources management in MNEs. In addition, the paper argues that the relationship between MNE design and IT resources management is a critical topic. The paper examines three relationships among these two concepts: the contingency theory argument that IT resources management should follow and be aligned with MNE organization design, the universalistic argument that there is one best way to organize IT resources in MNEs, and the co-evolutionary argument that IT enterprise resources management design can lead, as well as follow, MNE organization design.

Cloud computing is challenging conventional wisdom and practices in the management of IT resources and capabilities; at the same time, the technical underpinnings of cloud computing offer unique opportunities and levers for addressing these challenges. In this talk, I will talk about a number of new research thrusts brought forth by the cloud computing paradigm. First, the large magnitude of a typical virtual machine (VM) image and the large volume of common VM libraries have major performance implications for many cloud operations. Fortunately, content similarity that often exists across distinct VM images may be exploited to optimize the transfer and storage of VM images. Second, resource virtualization in the cloud is at odds with the assumptions in traditional software license models, which must be adapted or extended for virtualized environments. There is also a critical need for new license management techniques to help cloud-based software users achieve cost-effectiveness and compliance. Third, cloud infrastructure is evolving towards heterogeneity and is becoming programmable and composable. The so-called Software-Defined Infrastructure promises agility, flexibility, efficiency, and resilience through continuous and proactive optimization of heterogeneous resources to meet the changing requirements of a wide variety of workloads. For each of these research thrusts, I will discuss the specific technical issues and some initial work conducted at IBM Research.

With ever increasing usage of IT infrastructure around the globe, the increase in energy consumption and carbon emission is a worrisome situation for everyone because of its direct effect on environment. The environment is being dangerously impacted by Information Technology infrastructure extensive use and its waste. Cloud computing has emerged as one step further solution to deploy all virtualized IT resources as per need on self-service basis as a rental method for the users. Different cloud deployment methods have emerged according to the need of users, institutions and communities. In last decade virtualization has been a milestone in enabling optimal usage of information technology resources. Cloud computing has provided a platform for deploying everything as a Service in IT, which has changed the economics of IT based business and organizations from Capital Expenditure to Operational Expenditure. For enabling Cloud services we first need to understand our existing infrastructure. In second step we should be able to virtualize it for optimal usage. Then with the help of existing cloud applications we can deliver and deploy information technology as a resource at various levels such as infrastructure, platform, and software. Keywords; cloud computing, carbon emission, energy consumption, IT waste, virtualization. The Advancement in the field of information technology has enabled us to optimize the use of physical infrastructure with the help of virtualization, most of which is only used in specific applications like vitalizing a local area network on switch or vitalizing a compute resource to run more than one operating system on a desktop. The benefits of same has not been completely implemented and utilized in industrial environments where we require a large amount of IT resources. The advantage of using cloud is to enable complete utilization of Information technology resources, where most of the resources are underutilized. The cost involved in maintenance and management of those resources is huge which can be saved due to centralized management of private cloud infrastructure. We create private cloud keeping in mind. • Availability and performance requirements for the cloud • Infrastructure sizing, performance and continual availability requirements • The need for data security or isolation • The appropriate user interface With advent of IT as a service in cloud computing technology energy consumption and related carbon emissions and waste are considerably lesser than in-house implementation. Technology in Cloud Computing creates an able structure for sharing resources with the help of virtualization among many; it greatly decreases or abolishes the need for most products, equipment, utilities and facilities. The results are more sustainable IT infrastructures and processes which help in keeping environment safe. • Highest resource consumption and effectiveness • Reduced energy consumption by up to 95 % with the help of virtualization which optimizes the use of physical infrastructure and thereby helps IT to be delivered as a service. • Displaced utility costs Workstation utility costs are cut by 90% due to change of capital expenditure into operational expenditure in industries or organizations across the world. • Reduced electronic waste as No more batteries and minimal software/hardware waste. • Reduced waste overall due to consumption of computational power as service, no more as infrastructure. • Reduced ecological impact of workstations as compared to thin clients as anything related to computation can be provided as a service on a client connected with internet to the cloud provider.

The paper provides a conceptual argument for examining the challenge of IT outsourcing in the public sector through the lens of knowledge management. While IS researchers have recently begun to focus attention on the particular challenges of outsourcing in the public sector (P.N. Finlay and R.M. King, 1999; M. Hancox and R. Hackney, 1999), we believe that the shift to more market based solutions is occurring without much consideration for the knowledge resources that exist in the public sector's IT organizations. Hence, we believe that knowledge management, an emerging area that has generated significant enthusiasm in the management literature, has particular relevance for understanding this challenge. The authors identify differences between public and private sector IT outsourcing (S. Bretschneider, 1990), then define and employ key knowledge management constructs to identify potential difficulties that public sector organizations may experience in leveraging their knowledge assets when relying on third party IT service providers.

The rapid adoption of cloud computing has transformed IT resource management by providing scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions. Despite these benefits, cloud computing presents critical security challenges, particularly in protecting sensitive data during transmission and storage. This paper introduces the Enhanced Cloud Data Security (ECDS) technique, a new approach aimed at strengthening data protection within cloud infrastructures. ECDS incorporates substitution and permutation methods to secure data and utilizes a combination of encryption strategies to ensure that encrypted data remains inaccessible to unauthorized users. ECDS is a symmetric cryptographic system that uses the same key for encryption and decryption. It is 256-bit block cipher encryption and it uses 312-but keys. The ECDS is implemented in Python and compared against DES and Blowfish Encryption techniques. Extensive testing and performance analysis reveal that ECDS significantly enhances security and efficiency compared to traditional encryption methods. This paper contributes to the ongoing efforts to secure cloud computing environments for safeguarding sensitive data in the cloud.

Google proposed cloud computing concept in last 2006. And the interests of cloud service are rising rapidly. According to Gartner group's investigation, development view of cloud service is very hopeful. However, Skeptical sight is presented. If they don't support immigration and management schemes of existent IT resources then can't guarantee hopeful future about cloud service. Therefore, we are going to propose the way (AERMCS2: An Efficient Resource Management for Cloud Services using Clustering Schemes) that can manage IT resources effectively using existent clustering method for cloud service in this paper. AERMCS2 uses clustering concept and existing IT resources compose a cluster group. And act like single computer that compose a clustering and is done virtualized to solve user's request. We set two cluster groups in this research. First cluster group composes because have different hardware specification and make use of 5 computers that have high hardware specification. Second cluster group composes by 5 computers that have equal hardware specification and hardware specification is lower. We propose a scenario experiment using Hadoop that is cloud computing simulator to show efficiency. When manage IT resources using AERMCS2 that we was propose, existent IT resources re-usability is high. Process time was shorted more than double when compose clustering to computer groups which have equal hardware specification and use our scheme against of general cloud service.

Due to problems such as lack of interconnectivity between all 33 locations, between secretariats and several other points in the municipality, as well as difficulties in hiring, support, and speed of services provided by the telecommunications company, as well as security risks and adjustments to LGPD 13.709 /2018 and finally better management of IT resources, one of which was server virtualization, it was necessary to implement Cloud Phone telephony systems, Internet Mpls with Virtual Private Network at all points and server virtualization within the scope of the City Hall of Ibiá, Minas Gerais, represented a major transformation of the municipal IT infrastructure. The shift from a decentralized environment to an integrated structure has revolutionized operational efficiency, optimizing resources and increasing cybersecurity, as well as platform-as-a-service usage. The interconnectivity between all municipal public management locations facilitated communication and collaboration between different sectors and departments, enabling remote work and adaptation to new needs as they arise.

The extensive use of information and communication technology has transformed manufacturing organizations and economies into information centric and customer focused organizations. In present times, the information about a product or customer has become as valuable to the company as the product or service. However gaining information is an evolutionary process which begins with collection and storage of data to analysis and processing which is transformed into knowledge. It is this knowledge that is mission critical for organizations and their success. It is extremely vital for an organization to ensure that at no point of operation, the data which enables it with this knowledge is compromised. To ensure this the organizations invest a significant volume of their capital to set up an IT infrastructure to Preserve, Process and Protect this most valuable asset to an organization in present paradigm, its data. However for a small and medium sized company it is extremely demanding to implement the fundamentals of this new information based economy as it requires a significant investment upfront. For such organizations choosing computing is a cost effective alternative but with obvious concerns. Cloud Computing offers the opportunity to access IT resources and services with appreciable convenience and speed. Whilst computing is gaining growing popularity in the IT industry, it also meets with some challenges like data security, integrity, availability. This paper discusses the concept of cloud computing and its prospects and challenges. The benefits of computing has led increasingly many enterprises to outsource their IT resources tothe cloud, despite some challenges. The main contribution of this paper is that

Sustainable management of IT resources – the problem of e-waste

Cloud computing has become a generic umbrella term for the flexible delivery of IT resources—such as storage, computing power, software development platforms, and applications—as services over the Internet. The foremost innovation is that the IT infrastructure no longer lies with the user, breaking up the previously monolithic ownership and administrative control of its assets. The combination of cloud computing and semantic technologies holds great potential. In this chapter, we analyze three ways in which cloud computing and semantic technologies can be combined: (1) building on cloud computing technologies, e.g. from the area of distributed computing, to realize better semantic applications and enable semantic technologies to scale to ever larger data sets, (2) delivering semantic technologies as services in the cloud, and (3) using semantic technologies to improve cloud computing, in particular to further improve automatic data-center management. For each of these dimensions we identify challenges and opportunities, provide a survey, and present a research roadmap.

Now a days cloud computing is the major area of research Because cloud computing has own many benefits. Cloud computing also provides cost effective Resources so that it can become more and more helpful to IT trends. Distributed computing is an extensive arrangement that conveys IT as an administration. It is an Internet-based registering arrangement where shared assets are given like power disseminated on the electrical grid. Cloud suggest to a particular IT environment that is expected with the end goal of remotely provisioning versatile and measured IT resources. Whereas the Internet gives open access to many Web-based IT assets, a cloud is commonly exclusive and offers access to IT assets that is metered following SLAs implementation depends on guidelines that are redesigned in runtime so as to proactively recognize conceivable SLA Violations and handle them in a proper manner. Our proposed framework allows the creation and implementation of effective SLA for provisioning of service. SLA management are one kind of common comprehension between CSP (Cloud Service Provider) and customer.

The Digital Ecosystem (DE) paradigm is a holistic management/design/integration approach that is based on the notion of self-interested, self-managing, proactive and autonomous digital entities that evolve and self-organize. This in turn leads to the emergence of complex, self-organizing behaviours within a DE due to the evolving and highly dynamic interactions of its members. These interactions are however strongly influenced by the IT environment in which the DE is situated. Interestingly, our IT environments are currently undergoing a major transformation due to the declining importance of the desktop computing model. As smartphones and tablets begin to replace the desktop as the primary means of interacting with IT resources, our IT infrastructures are adapted to serve the increasing numbers of resource-constrained, wirelessly connected mobile devices that interact with backend components hosted in a cloud. These changes of the IT environment have also a major impact on the way Digital Ecosystems can be designed and how they operate. This paper focusses on the communication challenges of mobile digital ecosystems and presents an event-oriented form of communication that ensures high-scalability and loose coupling.

Accessing data from social networks using cloud computing has been adopted by many IT enthusiasts. It allows easy access to data and easy sending of data for communication purposes. For many social network users, cloud computing can simplify processes and save time and money. This article defines cloud computing and shows how one can quickly, safely and easily access data. It also discusses how cloud computing solutions could be beneficial to libraries in these basic areas: technology and acquisition.Today’s more libraries and social networks are joining the cloud. But despite the numerous social networks and data acquisition sites demand for data are still escalating—as they always will. To be able to access data conveniently today’s data competitiveness users of search engines must carefully scrutinize various libraries as well as social media to ensure that they match key data and communication needs and deliver intended results in the most efficient and cost-effective way. To meet these challenges, IT organizations are increasingly moving away from a device-centric view of IT, to a view that is application-, information- and people-centric. Cloud computing aligns with this new world view. Cloud computing technology is enabling IT to do more with the infrastructure that already exists, as well as adding new ways to expand capacity quickly and economically by using external cloud computing resources. This technology is enabling IT managers to treat infrastructure as a common substrate on which they can provision services to users faster in a much more flexible and cost-effective way –without having to re-design or add to the underlying infrastructure. Given the benefits of cloud computing, its broad appeal is not surprising. However, this new approach does raise some concerns. Chief among them is securing data in the cloud. This white paper will briefly review the basic fundamentals of cloud computing and describe how virtualization are enabling enterprises to move toward a flexible, federated computing model with a cohesive mix of private external and internal cloud environments. It then discusses the security implications of cloud computing and provides insights into addressing them, and offers a view of security best practices to adopt when considering cloud services.Cloud computing has become an increasingly popular means of delivering valuable, IT-enabled business services. Adopting cloud technology can be an affordable way to get access to a dynamically scalable, virtualized computing environment. Optimal IT hardware, software, expertise and infrastructure management resources that may not otherwise be available from a cost perspective can be rapidly deployed and easily scaled. Processes, applications and services can be available on demand, regard-less of the user location or device. The cloud provider is responsible for the environment, so organizations can make use of resources for short periods of time without having to maintain the environment when it is not being used. While cloud computing models are attractive because of their flexibility and cost effectiveness, certain challenges must be addressed in order to provide a viable option to traditional data services. First and foremost is the issue of security. The externalized aspect of outsourcing can make it harder to maintain data integrity and privacy, support data and service availability, demonstrate compliance, and secure highly available access to applications and information. In short, cloud computing can present an added level of risk. Organizations must therefore establish trust relationships with their cloud computing providers and understand risk in terms of how these providers implement, deploy, and manage security on their behalf. Whether delivered as part of the service or as specific components added in, your cloud provider should address the fundamentals of security and risk management through a comprehensive approach.