This book captures the state of the art in cloud technologies, infrastructures, and service delivery and deployment models. The work provides guidance and case studies on the development of cloud-based services and infrastructures from an international selection of expert researchers and practitioners. Features: presents a focus on security and access control mechanisms for cloud environments, analyses standards and brokerage services, and investigates the role of certification for cloud adoption; evaluates cloud ERP, suggests a framework for implementing "big data" science, and proposes an approach for cloud interoperability; reviews existing elasticity management solutions, discusses the relationship between cloud management and governance, and describes the development of a cloud service capability assessment model; examines cloud applications in higher education, including the use of knowledge-as-a-service in the provision of education, and cloud-based e-learning for students with disabilities.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
From the book reviews:
"This book, edited by Mahmood (Univ. of Derby, UK), is a collection of papers on various cloud computing topics. . It provides a good overview, giving readers a broad exposure to the various aspects of current cloud computing technologies and challenges. . it should be a good academic library asset. Practitioners, managers, researchers, and students of cloud computing will benefit most from this volume. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (F. H. Wild III, Choice, Vol. 52 (7), March, 2015)
Reihe
Auflage
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Illustrationen
98
98 s/w Abbildungen
XIX, 410 p. 98 illus.
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 24 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4471-7252-9 (9781447172529)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4471-6452-4
Schweitzer Klassifikation
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 Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches, Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures, and Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm.
