Ebook: Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches

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.

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The 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 directions

This 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.

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The 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 directions

This 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.

Content:
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

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The 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 directions

This 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.

Content:
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
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