Cloud computing
Subtitle: principles, systems and applications
By: Nikolaos Antonopoulos, Lee Gillam, editors
Series: Computer communications and networks; Computer communications and networks
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9781849962407; 9781849962414
Subjects: Cloud computing; Computers and IT
Description: Cloud computing has recently emerged as a subject of substantial industrial & academic interest, though its meaning & scope is hotly debated. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the state-of-the-art in cloud computing, highlighting & clarifying the conceptual & systemic links with other distributed computing approaches.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Cloud base. 1. Tools and technologies for building clouds / Hai Jin ... [et al.]; title: 2. A taxonomy, survey, and issues of cloud computing ecosystems / Bhaskar Prasad Rimal, Eunmi Choi, and Ian Lumb; title: 3. Towards a taxonomy for cloud computing from an e-science perspective / Daniel de Oliveira, Fernanda Araujo Baião, and Marta Mattoso; title: 4. Examining cloud computing from the perspective of grid and computer-supported cooperative work / Jinlei Jiang and Guangwen Yang; title: 5. Overview of cloud standards / Anand Govindarajan and Lakshmanan; title: pt. 2. Cloud seeding. 6. Open and interoperable clouds: the cloud@home way / Vincenzo D. Cunsolo ... [et al.]; title: 7. A peer-to-peer framework for supporting MapReduce applications in dynamic cloud environments / Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, and Paolo Trunfio; title: 8. Enhanced network support for scalable computing clouds / Francesco Pamieri and Silvio Pardi; title: 9. YML-PC: a reference architecture based on workflow for building scientific private clouds / Ling Shang ... [et al.]; title: 10: An efficient framework for running applications on clusters, grids, and clouds / Brian Amedro ... [et al.]; title: 11. Resource management for hybrid grid and cloud computing / Simon Ostermann, Radu Prodan, and Thomas Fahringer; title: 12. Peer-to-peer cloud provisioning: service discovery and load-balancing / Rajiv Ranjan ... [et al.]; title: 13. Mixing grids and clouds: high-throughput science using the Nimrod tool family / Blair Bethwaite ... [et al.]; title: pt. 3. Cloud breaks. 14. Cloud compliance: a framework for using cloud computing in a regulated world / Shawn R. Chaput and Katarina Ringwood; title: 15. Cloud computing: data confidentiality and interoperability challenges / Fabrizio Gagliardi and Silvana Muscella; title: 16. Security issues to cloud computing / Cyril Onwubiko; title: 17. Securing the cloud / James P. Durbano ... [et al.]; title: pt. 4. Cloud feedback. 18. Technologies for enforcement and distribution of policy in cloud architectures / K.W. Scott Morrison; title: 19. The PRISM on-demand digital media cloud / Terry Harmer, Ron Perrott, and Rhys Lewis; title: 20. Cloud economics: principles, costs, and benefits / Asoke K. Talukder, Lawrence Zimmerman, and Prahalad H.A; title: 21. Towards application-specific service level agreements: experiments in clouds and grids / Bin Li, Lee Gillam, and John O'Loughlin.