A cloudlet is a small-scale data centre located at the edge of the Internet to provide computing resources to mobile applications with lower latency. It is a newer architectural element of cloud computing infrastructure of a 3-tier hierarchy: mobile device or IoT hardware, cloudlet, cloud. The cloudlet concept is also known as mobile micro-cloud. The term was first suggested by Satyanarayanan as … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is becoming more and more important. Here are articles on Cloud Computing,Cloud Server,SaaS,PaaS,IaaS and Cloud related technology.
What is Semi-Structured Data?
Semi-structured data is the name given in database research (informatics) to information which is not subject to a general structure, but which carry with it part of the structural information. While structured data retention must be based on a database model that contains the appearance of the data elements (objects), semi-structured data lacks one. Semi-structured data does not need to be … [Read more...]
What is Unstructured Data?
In business informatics and computer linguistics, unstructured data is digitized information that is present in a non-formalized structure and which cannot be accessed aggregated by computer programs via a single interface. Examples include digital texts in natural language and digital sound recordings of human language. Unstructured data from structured and semi-structured data is differentiated. … [Read more...]
What is Autonomic Computing?
Autonomic Computing is an initiative to provide computers with the tools they need to self-manage without human intervention. The idea was initially launched by IBM in the year 2001, now it has been taken over by many other companies, including HP and Microsoft. The initiative also involved academia, with the establishment of the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing. The … [Read more...]
How to Take the Advantages of Cloud Computing
On-premise installation or cloud? Here you can read how your company can realize the advantages of cloud computing and still keep all data, information and workloads under your control, as with an on-premises installation. Companies will no longer have a competitive advantage in the future if they invest in information technology. IT will simply be an infrastructure technology from the socket - … [Read more...]
How To Install PHP 7.4 on Ubuntu Server
PHP 7.4 is a new minor version of PHP with some breaking changes. While installing PHP 7.4 for my new website abhishekghosh.com I noticed that some packages do need careful installation. Overall our main guide on how to install PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server should work fine for setup of a LAMP server for installation of PHP-MySQL web software like WordPress. The new features are written on … [Read more...]
How to Install Gradle on Debian
Gradle is a build tool primarily used for Java projects. Gradle combines the features of Ant and Maven. Gradle uses Groovy, which is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language for the Java platform to define the project and build scripts. Java is one of the most popular programming languages used to build different kinds of applications and systems. Applications developed in Java are scalable … [Read more...]
What is Cloud Robotics?
Various cloud technologies such as cloud server, cloud storage are used in the field of cloud robotics is a field of robotics to utilize benefits of shared service infrastructure. Thus, the robots get the benefit from powerful computing, storage, and communication capabilities of cloud computing, which can process and share information from the agents (other machines, smart objects, humans,etc.). … [Read more...]
What is Data-Driven Journalism?
Data-Driven Journalism is the process of obtaining, building, filtering, analyzing and presenting databases, with the aim of generating news. It is a practice derived from Precision Journalism, proposed by Philip Meyer in the 1970s, and Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR). The first reference to Data Journalism, a term derived from Data-Driven Journalism, was made by programmer Adrian Holovaty … [Read more...]
What is Data Journalism?
Data journalism is a journalism speciality that involves collecting and analyzing large amounts of data using specialized software and making the information understandable to the audience through articles, info-graphics, data visualizations, or interactive applications. Computer-aided journalism was first used on the CBS television network in 1952 to predict the results of the presidential … [Read more...]
What is Mobile Backend as a service (MBaaS)?
Mobile Backend as a service (MBaaS) is a model for providing web and mobile app developers with a way to link these applications to cloud storage, analytics services, and/or other features such as user management, the ability to send push notifications, and integration with social media services. These services are provided through the use of custom software development kits (SDKs) and application … [Read more...]