Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches

✍ Scribed by Eduardo Martins Guerra, Ednelson Oliveira (auth.), Zaigham Mahmood (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Series: Computer Communications and Networks
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book 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 directions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Metadata-Based Frameworks in the Context of Cloud Computing....Pages 3-24
Architecting Scientific Data Systems in the Cloud....Pages 25-46
Social, Dynamic and Custom-Based Clouds: Architecture, Services and Frameworks....Pages 47-66
Consumer Cloud: Concepts, Vendor Solutions, Industry Applications and Way Forward....Pages 67-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Role of Service Brokers in Cloud Computing....Pages 87-105
Resource and Scheduling Management in Cloud Computing Application Paradigm....Pages 107-132
Management Infrastructures for Power-Efficient Cloud Computing Architectures....Pages 133-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Cloud Computing: A Mobile Context-Awareness Perspective....Pages 155-175
Potential Concerns and Common Benefits of Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)....Pages 177-195
Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Infrastructural Solutions....Pages 197-219
Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Application and Platform Solutions....Pages 221-239
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Cloud Application Modernization and Migration Methodology....Pages 243-271
An Assessment Tool to Prepare the Leap to the Cloud....Pages 273-292
Leveraging Potential of Cloud for Software Performance Testing....Pages 293-322
Open-Source Cloudware Support for the Portability of Applications Using Cloud Infrastructure Services....Pages 323-341
Back Matter....Pages 343-347

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Business Information Systems