Nowadays, in various scientific domains, large data sets are becoming an important part of
shared resources. Such huge mass of data is usually stored in cloud data centers …

Context: In recent years, the valuable knowledge that can be retrieved from petabyte scale
datasets–known as Big Data–led to the development of solutions to process information …

Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) enables a client to perform searches over its
outsourced encrypted files while preserving privacy of the files and queries. Dynamic …

As the expenses of medical care administrations rise and medical services experts are
becoming rare, it is up to medical services organizations and institutes to consider the …

Failures are normal rather than exceptional in the cloud computing environments. To
improve system availability, replicating the popular data to multiple suitable locations is an …

Placing data as close as possible to computation is a common practice of data intensive
systems, commonly referred to as the data locality problem. By analyzing existing production …

The recent years have witnessed significant interest in migrating different applications into
the cloud platforms. In this context, one of the main challenges for cloud applications …

Big data systems are sufficiently stable to store and process a massive volume of rapidly
changing data. However, big data systems are composed of large-scale hardware resources …

Effective data management is an important issue for a large-scale distributed environment
such as data cloud. This can be achieved by using file replication, which efficiently reduces …

The present invention prdvides a method and a caching node entity for ensuring at least a
predetermined number of a content object to be kept stored in a network, comprising a …