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Private cloud for collaboration and e-Learning services: from IaaS to SaaS

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The idea behind cloud computing is to deliver Infrastructure-, Platform- and Software-as-a-Service (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) over the Internet on an easy pay-per-use business model. The Hochschule Furtwangen University (HFU) is running their own private cloud infrastructure, called Cloud Infrastructure and Application CloudIA. The targeted users of the CloudIA project are HFU staff and students running e-Learning applications, and external people for collaboration purposes. Therefore, in this paper, we introduce our work in building a private cloud. More specifically, this paper shows how our cloud offerings in each of the cloud service models, i.e. IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, address the requirements and needs of e-Learning and collaboration in an university environment.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Furtwangen, Germany

    Frank Doelitzscher, Anthony Sulistio & David Wolf

  2. Information and Media Centre, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Furtwangen, Germany

    Christoph Reich & Hendrik Kuijs

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Doelitzscher, F., Sulistio, A., Reich, C. et al. Private cloud for collaboration and e-Learning services: from IaaS to SaaS. Computing 91, 23–42 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-010-0106-z

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