Homework 10-17-2009

1. Survey the major industry players in cloud computing and propose a taxonomy

Cloud computing has many applications. Now I would like to introduce a industry player in cloud computing which is Infortrend Technology.

It is a Storage (RAID) producer and has 15% market share in the world.

When we use cloud computing, a large of date streams will be upload to the computing center.

Beside the high performance computing, we also need the large of storage in cloud computing.

It also need to enhance a lots of issue about high quality, stability and security.

Reference: Action Science Approach to Nonprofit Housing Services using Web 2.0 Mapping Tools

That is why the Infortrend Technology is important of cloud computing.

The major of applications are used:

And the position of cloud computing is: (prference Laird_CloudMap)

2. Summarize the following paper in 200 words. "Nonprofit Housing Service using Web 2.0 Mapping Tools"

This paper is finding (a) Web 2.0 suits nonprofit organizations better than traditional webs in terms of maintenance cost and usability, (b) mapping tools make better GUI with respect to web-based housing services, and (c) context-aware personalization can translate to better user experiences as an RDFS-based working protytype has been built and tested.

For example, both the landlords and tenants use the website to upload and find housing informatin and expect there arematches in the prefered apartment types, locations and so on.

Aside from running the website, the organization has been in charge of verifying the identities of both parties and maintaining the correctness and legality of the papers.

This responsibility is obviously labor intensive but makes the organizations that just mainly set up the websites.

For example: Matchmaker acts as an agent to perform matching based on housing conditions and preferences, and onece there is a match, a notification is sent to the client for a possible site visit arrangment.

So using Web 2.0 can give us more information and let us find the solutions more quickly,exactly.

3. Summarize the following paper in 200 words. "Action Science Approach to Experimenting Nonprofig Web 2.0 Services for Employment of Individuals with Mental Impairments"

This paper is interested in applying web 2.0 to employment services for people with mental disabilities. It has a lot of help to improve the resource for mental disabilitie.

Before the era of Web 2.0, Web service is very expensive. The initial and maintenance cost of IT systems are often too high for nonprofit organizations. For improving this, Web 2.0 has help a lot. Before the era of Web 2.0, Web service was maintained mostly by professionals. Most of the users spent their time reading on the Internet, but they couldn't easily share the information about their opinions, and pictures or enen videos. Web 2.0 gives Internet users a chance to easily publish their work on the Web and introduce it to the world. This paper study the processes how to unleash the power of Web 2.0 to assist people with mental disabilities and their caregivers.

They use Nonprofit 2.0 to help them. In the beginning, thdy devoted themselves in the way of thinking how a jop coach accomplishes her helping tasks. Cuided by principles of action science in 4 months of organized participant observations, in-depth interviews, field work, and focus group studies, a working prototype has been built and tested by the jop coaches with significant success.