Database Gurus Tackle Cloud Computing Challenges

| January 30, 2011 | Comments (1)

The challenges cloud computing presents to database technology came into focus Friday during the New England Database Summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

One talk by University of Massachusetts researcher Emmanuel Cecchet centered on Dolly, a system focused on dynamic provisioning of database resources in the cloud.

Cloud-based deployments work particularly well for Web applications, since the dynamic resource provisioning and metered pricing cloud platforms provide are ideal for handling the typical peaks and valleys of usage they receive, Cecchet and other researchers note in a paper on Dolly, which was co-authored by Rahul Singh, Upendra Sharma and Prashant Shenoy.

However, dynamic provisioning so far has focused mostly on the front end or middle application server tier, they argue.

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