Cloud-ready scalable and elastic data processing using off-the-shelf databases, replication and virtualization
Tudor-Ioan Salomie · Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2014
Software-as-a-service and cloud computing have gained much traction in recent years.The tightly coupled hardware infrastructure and software o↵erings of many cloud vendors such as Amazon, Rackspace, or Windows Azure have allowed a significant number of businesses to adopt a pay-as-you-go model and switch from on-premise to cloud architectures.