Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Zaigham Mahmood
Publisher:   Springer London Ltd
Imprint:   Springer London Ltd
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   6.496kg
ISBN:  

9781447172529

ISBN 10:   1447172523
Pages:   410
Publication Date:   03 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Access Control Mechanisms and Cloud Security.- Towards a GPU Cloud.- Taxonomy and Classification of Access Control Models for Cloud Environments.- Access Control as a Service in Cloud.- Part II: Standards, Brokerage Services and Certification.- Realization of Open Cloud Computing Standards, Forums and Platforms.- Role of Broker in InterCloud Environment.- Patterns of Trust.- Part III: Frameworks for ERP, Big Data and Interoperability.- A Framework for Evaluating Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems.- DIPAR: A Framework for Implementing Big Data Science in Organizations.- A Framework for Cloud Interoperability Based on Compliance and Conformance.- Part IV: Management, Governance and Capability Assessment.- Survey of Elasticity Management Solutions in Cloud Computing.- From Cloud Management to Cloud Governance.- Towards the Development of a Cloud Service Capability Assessment Framework.- Part V: Applications in Education and Other Scenarios.- Cloud Computing within Higher Education.- Cloud Computing Environment for e-Learning Services for Students with Disabilities.- Application Scenarios Suitable For Deployment in Cloud Environments.

Reviews

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)

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)

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)

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 Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches, Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures, and Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm.

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