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The TClouds platform: concept, architecture and instantiations

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Alysson Bessani,

Leucio A. Cutillo,

Gianluca Ramunno,

Norbert Schirmer,

Paolo SmiragliaAuthors Info & Claims

DISCCO '13: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Cloud Computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2506155.2506156

Published: 30 September 2013 Publication History

Abstract

TClouds is a EU project targeted at improving the security and the high-availability of the cloud infrastructures and services, especially for supporting critical applications. This paper presents the TClouds platform, the main outcome of the project, in an integrated way.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2018.00123
Endo PRodrigues MGonçalves GKelner JSadok DCurescu C(2016)High availability in cloudsJournal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications10.1186/s13677-016-0066-85:1(1-15)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1186/s13677-016-0066-8
Alqahtani HSant P(2016)Multiple-Clouds Computing Security ApproachesProceedings of the International Conference on Internet of things and Cloud Computing10.1145/2896387.2896411(1-6)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2896387.2896411

The TClouds platform: concept, architecture and instantiations
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures

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DISCCO '13: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Cloud Computing

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DOI:10.1145/2506155

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Iyengar AKundu ASharma UZhang P(2018)A Trusted Healthcare Data Analytics Cloud Platform2018 IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)10.1109/ICDCS.2018.00123(1238-1249)Online publication date: Jul-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2018.00123
Endo PRodrigues MGonçalves GKelner JSadok DCurescu C(2016)High availability in cloudsJournal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications10.1186/s13677-016-0066-85:1(1-15)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1186/s13677-016-0066-8
Alqahtani HSant P(2016)Multiple-Clouds Computing Security ApproachesProceedings of the International Conference on Internet of things and Cloud Computing10.1145/2896387.2896411(1-6)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2896387.2896411

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