Overview

This book reviews the challenging issues that present barriers to greater implementation of the cloud computing paradigm, together with the latest research into developing potential solutions. Topics and features: presents a focus on the most important issues and limitations of cloud computing, covering cloud security and architecture, QoS and SLAs; discusses a methodology for cloud security management, and proposes a framework for secure data storage and identity management in the cloud; introduces a simulation tool for energy-aware cloud environments, and an efficient congestion control system for data center networks; examines the issues of energy-aware VM consolidation in the IaaS provision, and software-defined networking for cloud related applications; reviews current trends and suggests future developments in virtualization, cloud security, QoS data warehouses, cloud federation approaches, and DBaaS provision; predicts how the next generation of utility computing infrastructures will be designed.

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Author:   Zaigham Mahmood
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2014 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.729kg
ISBN:  

9783319105291

ISBN 10:   3319105299
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   04 November 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Limitations and Challenges of Cloud Environments.- Attacks in Public Clouds.- Distributed Database Management Systems.- Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements for Cloud Environments.- Part II: Current Developments and R&D Solutions.- A Methodology for Cloud Security Risk Management.- SecDSIM.- CloudReports.- Cloud Computing: Efficient Congestion Control in Data Center Networks.- Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation in IaaS Cloud Computing.- Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for Cloud Applications.- Part III: Advances in Cloud Technologies and Future Trends.- Virtualization and Cloud Security.- Quality-of-Service Data Warehouse for the Selection of Cloud Services.- Characterizing Cloud Federation Approaches.- Security Aspects of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in Cloud Computing.- Beyond the Clouds: How Should Next Generation Utility Computing Infrastructures Be Designed?

Reviews

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and potential solutions to problems associated with cloud computing. Each chapter includes references. Given the number of authors involved in the work, the editor did a good job of controlling the uniformity of the book's structure. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners. (J. Beidler, Choice, Vol. 52 (9), May, 2015)

Author Information

Prof. Zaigham Mahmood is an Associate Lecturer (Research) at the University of Derby, UK; Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education, UK; Professor Extraordinaire at North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa; and Foreign Professor at NUST Islamabad, Pakistan. His other publications include the successful Springer books Continued Rise of the Cloud: Advances and Trends in Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches, Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures, and Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm.

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