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Continued Rise of the Cloud (eBook, PDF)

Advances and Trends in Cloud Computing

Redaktion: Mahmood, Zaigham

Beschreibung

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.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• ohne Kopierschutz
• Größe: 8.05MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447164524
• Artikelnr.: 43789954

Rezensionen

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)