A Digital Infrastructure Perspective for Accelerated Rural Entrepreneurship | Chapter 8 | Contemporary Research in Business, Management and Economics Vol. 8

 

Within the technological context associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) as well as the technological implications of the Covid-19 pandemic, digitalization has increased. Given that rural entrepreneurs have traditionally lagged behind in many facets of competitiveness, the purpose of this study was to explore the question: How can digital infrastructure accelerate small business entrepreneurship in a rural community in the Eastern Cape Province? The study was based on a qualitative design related to participant observations and document analysis. Participating in a meeting between entrepreneurs, academics and Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) officials and analyzing the discussion areas and behaviours of participants allowed the objectives of the study to be achieved. It was found that virtual infrastructure development excited the respondents and inspired the business and developmental aspirations of participants. Participants provided that digital infrastructure development in rural Eastern Cape would foster economic development, close the digital divide, widen small enterprise development models, ensure inclusive economic participation and create new business opportunities. It was also provided that digital infrastructure creates entrepreneurial linkages that would promote business ecosystems in rural areas and foster general economic advancement in rural areas. This study resulted in the need to recommend government to increase digital support and investment in rural areas.

 

Author(s)details:-

 

Dr. Nteboheng Patricia Mefi
Department of Administration and Information Management, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.

 

Samson Nambei Asoba
Department of Administration and Information Management, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.

 

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Performance Management for Effective Virtual Work Performance in the Higher Education Sector in the Eastern Cape Province | Chapter 1 | Contemporary Research in Business, Management and Economics Vol. 8

 

Theoretical and empirical work on performance management has, over the years guided human capital management practices. In recent years, known practices for effective human capital management have been challenged and thrown into disarray owing to modification of the concept of ‘workplace’ which has been virtualized in many sectors such as the higher education sector. The purpose of the study was to investigate the question: How can performance management be implemented for better performance of academics at a university selected from the Eastern Cape Province? The study was inspired by the Resource-based Theory based on the need to create unique internal capabilities among human capital for unique performance. A typical university in the Eastern Cape that has significantly virtualized was considered and data was collected through document analysis related to the study of the performance management policy of the university and interviews with five Heads of Departments (HOD) at the University were conducted. The results showed that performance management in virtual work arrangements should arise from inspired psychological states in academics to meet certain societal needs through effective higher education. Specifically, it was found that in virtual higher education arrangements, academics and non-academics in the sector should be psychologically empowered to see the value of their independent contributions so that they become self-driven for better performance. It was also found in the study that performance rewards and personalized job satisfaction and self-motivation were important concepts for better performance. It is recommended that, as they virtualise, higher education institutions should promote empowerment and self-driven desires to perform through effective reward structures, individual motivation systems and employee recognition systems. There was evidence that these practices have become more important in the virtual context than ever.

 

Author(s)details:-

 

Samson Nambei Asoba (Professor)
Department of Administration and Information Management, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.

 

Dr. Nteboheng Patricia Mefi
Department of Administration and Information Management, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.

 

Please See the book here :-  https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/crbme/v8/8108E

A Brief Overview on Memory Management and Reuse Mechanism for Virtual Machine in Cloud Computing to Minimize Energy Consumption | Chapter 8 | Research and Applications Towards Mathematics and Computer Science Vol. 8

In this paper, a propose technique that reduces the size of memory image stored on source host before migration. Cloud computing is an emerging computing technology for large data centers that maintains computational resources through the internet, rather than on local computers. The ultimate goal of efficient resource utilization in cloud computing is to maximize the profit for cloud providers and to minimize the cost for cloud consumers. Virtual Machine (VM) migration provides the capability to balance the load, system maintenance and fault tolerance, etc. However, existing migration techniques, used to migrate virtual machines keeping memory images of VMs in host and skipping transfer of unchanged memory pages to reduce the amount of transfer data during migration, if number of migrations increases, number of memory images stored on host are also increased, this causes memory starvation. When a VM migrates to other host, memory images of VM is kept in the source host after removing unwanted data according to the Probability factor. When the VM migrates back to the original host later, the kept memory image will be “reused”, i.e. data which are identical to the kept data will not be transferred and comparative to existing system the size of memory image is small. To validate this approach, evaluate the results using different threshold levels and probability factor of change in data. Proposed system required less memory to store the memory image and allow more VMs to be hosted. Specifically, proposed work is used to improve resource efficiency throughout by reducing the size of memory image that is stored on source host. The current work focuses on efficient memory management for source host and will reduce the memory requirement while migration. The main idea behind this concept is, whenever a VM is ready for migration from one host to another, its current state is stored on source host for future use to reduce the data transfer when it come back from the destination host after processing.

Author(s) Details:

Sandeep Kaur,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Punjab Institute of Technology (PTU Main Campus), PTU University, Punjab, India.

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Appraisal on Live Virtual Machine Migrations and Its Approaches | Chapter 03 | Novel Perspectives of Engineering Research Vol. 6

 Today's world is dominated by the Internet. Almost everyone uses the internet to access various services. Various cloud users want a range of services based on their dynamically changing demands over the internet in Cloud Computing. As a result, cloud computing's task is to provide all of the desired services to cloud users. However, due to limited resources, it is extremely difficult for cloud providers to supply all of the requested services in a timely manner. Cloud resources must be allocated fairly from the standpoint of cloud providers. As a result, meeting cloud consumers' QoS requirements and satisfaction is a hot topic. Virtualization abstracts resources such as CPU and Memory to allow for more efficient resource consumption. In cloud computing, virtual machine migration is one of the most important approaches for dynamic resource management. The process of moving a virtual machine from one physical host to another is known as migration. This study focuses on critical performance issues, challenges, and techniques for cloud computing live virtual machine migration. It also outlines and concentrates on the fundamental challenges surrounding these existing live virtual machine migration solutions.

Author(S) Details

Swapnil M. Parikh
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Parul Institute of Engineering and Technology, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

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