Mahmood Z. (Ed.) Cloud Computing Methods and Practical Approaches

Springer, 2013. — 353 p. — ISBN: 1447151062, 9781447151067The benefits associated with cloud computing are enormous; yet the dynamic, virtualized, distributed and multi-tenant nature of the cloud environment presents many challenges.
To help tackle these challenges, Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches provides illuminating viewpoints and helpful case studies, supplied by an international selection of pre-eminent authorities from both industry and academia. This comprehensive text/reference presents both state-of-the-art research developments and practical guidance on approaches, technologies and frameworks for the emerging cloud paradigm.Topics and features:Presents the state of the art in cloud technologies, infrastructures, and service delivery and deployment models
Discusses relevant theoretical frameworks, practical approaches and suggested methodologies
Offers guidance and best practices for the development of cloud-based services and infrastructures, and examines management aspects of cloud computing
Reviews consumer perspectives on mobile cloud computing and cloud-based enterprise resource planning
Explores software performance testing, open-source cloudware support, and assessment methodologies for modernization, migration and pre-migration
Describes emerging new methodologies relevant to the cloud paradigm, and provides suggestions for future developments and research directionsThis timely volume is ideal for use both as a primer/textbook for students of cloud computing, and as a professional reference for software architects, infrastructure specialists and other cloud practitioners. A program of study for a 12-week teaching semester is suggested in the Preface.Dr. Zaigham Mahmood is a researcher at the University of Derby UK, a Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education, and Foreign Professor at NUST Islamabad, Pakistan. His other publications include the successful Springer books Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures and Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm.Cloud Infrastructures and Frameworks
Metadata-Based Frameworks in the Context of Cloud Computing
Eduardo Guerra and Ednelson Oliveira
Architecting Scientific Data Systems in the Cloud (Daniel Crichton, Chris Mattmann, Luca Cinquini, Emily Law, George Chang, Sean Hardman and Khawaja Shams)
Social, Dynamic and Custom-Based Clouds: Architecture, Services and Frameworks (Fareeha Zafar and Omer Muhammad Ayoub)
Consumer Cloud: Concepts, Vendor Solutions, Industry Applications and Way Forward (Naveen Kumar and Sudhanshu Hate)
Cloud Enablement and Management
Role of Service Brokers in Cloud Computing (Dolly Kandpal)
Resource and Scheduling Management in the Cloud Computing Application Paradigm (Katerina Papanikolaou and Constandinos Mavromoustakis)
Management Infrastructures for Power-Efficient Cloud Computing Architectures (Antonio Corradi, Mario Fanelli and Luca Foschini)
Cloud Perspectives and Patterns
Cloud Computing: A Mobile Context-Awareness Perspective (Nayyab Zia Naqvi, Davy Preuveneers and Yolande Berbers)
Potential Concerns and Common Benefits of Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning (S. Parthasarathy)
Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Infrastructural Solutions (Shyam Kumar Doddavula, Ira Agrawal and Vikas Saxena)
Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Application and Platform Solutions (Shyam Kumar Doddavula, Ira Agrawal and Vikas Saxena)
Cloud Modernization and Migration
Cloud Application Modernization and Migration Methodology (Rajaraajeswari Settu and Pethuru Ra)j
An Assessment Tool to Prepare the Leap to the Cloud (Leire Orue-Echevarria, Marisa Escalante and Juncal Alonso)
Leveraging the Potential of the Cloud for Software Performance Testing (Krishna Markande and Sridhar Murthy)
Open-source Cloudware Support for the Portability of Applications using Cloud Infrastructure Services (Dana Petcu and Massimiliano Rak)