What: talk summarizing some of the results of his PhD thesis

When: Friday, July 29th, 2011, 15:00

Where : University of Fribourg, Bd de Pérolles 90, 1700 Fribourg, Room G514

Who: Dr. Gianluca Demartini, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Informatics of the University of Fribourg

Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud

This talk introduces a new transactional “database-as-a-service” (DBaaS) called Relational Cloud. A DBaaS promises to move much of the operational burden of provisioning, configuration, scaling, performance tuning, backup, privacy, and access control from the database users to the service operator, offering lower overall costs to users. Early DBaaS efforts include Amazon RDS and Microsoft SQL Azure, which are promising in terms of establishing the market need for such a service, but which do not address three important challenges: efficient multi-tenancy, elastic scalability, and database privacy. We argue that these three challenges must be overcome before outsourcing database software and management becomes attractive to many users, and cost-effective for service providers. The key technical features of Relational Cloud

Bachelor in Computer Science and Bachelor in  Business Informatics

• When: Wednesday, September 22th 2010, 15:15 - 16:15 (approx.)
• Where: University of Fribourg, Bd Pérolles 90 - G230
• Who:
  • Prof. Ulrich Ultes-Nitsch (Computer Science), presentation is in German with slides in French, discussion in English / French / German
  • Prof. Pius Hättenschwiler (Business Informatics), presentation is in German with slides in French, discussion in English / French / German
    

Info event: Joint Master in Computer Science of the Universities of Bern, Neuchâtel and Fribourg

• When: Friday, September 17th 2010, 13:15 - 15:00 (approx.)
• Where: University of Fribourg, Bd Pérolles 90 - G230
• Who: Prof. Béat Hirsbrunner, presentation is in Englisch, discussion in English / French / German