Press Corner - Cloud TM

Here you find a list of press releases on Cloud-TM in various languages:

Press releases in Portuguese

"Portugal lidera projecto europeu de desenvolvimento cloud" on APDC (Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento das Comunicações)
"INESC-ID lidera Projecto de Investigação Financiado pela Comissão Europeia" on CienciaPT.net
"INESC-ID dirige investigação em cloud computing"on COMPUTERWORLD.COM.PT
"INESC-ID dirige investigação em cloud computing" on FIBRA.pt
"INESC-ID lidera Projecto de Investigação Financiado pela Comissão Europeia" on SuperIndustria.com
"INESC-ID lidera investigação paga pela Comissão Europeia" on Vida Económica
"Projecto Cloud-TM avança no INESC-ID" on Semana Informática

Press releases in English

"Red Hat partners with European Union on cutting edge cloud research" on Red Hat News

Press releases in Italian

Dissemination material overviewing the project

Below you can download the Factsheet, a Brochure and a Poster, which describes the project and is available on the list below.

Check it out!

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Key Goals:

1. Transaction-centric programming paradigm

Defining a friendly programming model for large scale distributed applications that integrates the familiar notion of atomic transaction as a first-class programming language construct. This would spare programmers from the burden of implementing low level, error-prone mechanisms (e.g. distribution, persistence and fault-tolerance) attaining major reductions of the development process cost

2. Minimizing Costs

Minimizing the monitoring and administration costs by automating the provisioning of resources from the cloud based on user specified target criteria in terms of both Quality of Service and budget

3. Maximizing Scalability

Maximizing the scalability and efficiency (i.e. the costs/benefits ratio in the Cloud Computing usage-based pricing model) of the user-level services by self-tuning the middleware's internal mechanisms to ensure optimal performance in face of fluctuations of the number of allocated resources and of the workload characteristic