Description
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.
Table of Contents
Part I: Cloud Infrastructures and Frameworks.- Metadata-Based Frameworks in the Context of Cloud Computing.- Architecting Scientific Data Systems in the Cloud.- Social, Dynamic and Custom-Based Clouds.- Consumer Cloud.- Part II: Cloud Enablement and Management.- Role of Service Brokers in Cloud Computing.- Resource and Scheduling Management in the Cloud Computing Application Paradigm.- Management Infrastructures for Power-Efficient Cloud Computing Architectures.- Part III: Cloud Perspectives and Patterns.- Cloud Computing: A Mobile Context-Awareness Perspective.- Potential Concerns and Common Benefits of Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning.- Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Infrastructural Solutions.- Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Application and Platform Solutions.- Part IV: Cloud Modernization and Migration.- Cloud Application Modernization and Migration Methodology.- An Assessment Tool to Prepare the Leap to the Cloud.- Leveraging the Potential of the Cloud for Software Performance Testing.- Open Source Cloudware Support for the Portability of Applications using Cloud Infrastructure Services.
