Cloud computing continues to emerge as a subject of substantial industrial and academic interest. Although the meaning and scope of "cloud computing" continues to be debated, the current notion of clouds blurs the distinctions between grid services, web services, and data centers, among other areas. Clouds also bring considerations of lowering the cost for relatively bursty applications to the fore. Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications is an essential reference/guide that provides thorough and timely examination of the services, interfaces and types of applications that can be executed on cloud-based systems. The book identifies and highlights state-of-the-art techniques and methods for designing cloud systems, presents mechanisms and schemes for linking clouds to economic activities, and offers balanced coverage of all related technologies that collectively contribute towards the realization of cloud computing. With an emphasis on the conceptual and systemic links between cloud computing and other distributed computing approaches, this text also addresses the practical importance of efficiency, scalability, robustness and security as the four cornerstones of quality of service. Topics and features: explores the relationship of cloud computing to other distributed computing paradigms, namely peer-to-peer, grids, high performance computing and web services; presents the principles, techniques, protocols and algorithms that can be adapted from other distributed computing paradigms to the development of successful clouds; includes a Foreword by Professor Mark Baker of the University of Reading, UK; examines current cloud-practical applications and highlights early deployment experiences; elaborates the economic schemes needed for clouds to become viable business models. This book will serve as a comprehensive reference for researchers and students engaged in cloud computing. Professional system architects, technical managers, and IT consultants will also find this unique text a practical guide to the application and delivery of commercial cloud services. Prof. Nick Antonopoulos is Head of the School of Computing, University of Derby, UK. Dr. Lee Gillam is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing at the University of Surrey, UK.

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Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications (Computer Communications and Networks)

Nikolaos Antonopoulos, Lee Gillam, editors

Antonopoulos, Nikos; Gillam, Lee

Antonopoulos, Nick; Gillam, Lee

Cor Claeys; Eddy Simoen

Computer communications and networks, Computer communications and networks, London, New York, England, 2010

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Springer Nature, London, 2010

sm22816261

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Cloud base. 1. Tools and technologies for building clouds / Hai Jin ... [et al.]
2. A taxonomy, survey, and issues of cloud computing ecosystems / Bhaskar Prasad Rimal, Eunmi Choi, and Ian Lumb
3. Towards a taxonomy for cloud computing from an e-science perspective / Daniel de Oliveira, Fernanda Araujo Baião, and Marta Mattoso
4. Examining cloud computing from the perspective of grid and computer-supported cooperative work / Jinlei Jiang and Guangwen Yang
5. Overview of cloud standards / Anand Govindarajan and Lakshmanan
pt. 2. Cloud seeding. 6. Open and interoperable clouds: the cloud@home way / Vincenzo D. Cunsolo ... [et al.]
7. A peer-to-peer framework for supporting MapReduce applications in dynamic cloud environments / Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, and Paolo Trunfio
8. Enhanced network support for scalable computing clouds / Francesco Pamieri and Silvio Pardi
9. YML-PC: a reference architecture based on workflow for building scientific private clouds / Ling Shang ... [et al.]
10: An efficient framework for running applications on clusters, grids, and clouds / Brian Amedro ... [et al.]
11. Resource management for hybrid grid and cloud computing / Simon Ostermann, Radu Prodan, and Thomas Fahringer
12. Peer-to-peer cloud provisioning: service discovery and load-balancing / Rajiv Ranjan ... [et al.]
13. Mixing grids and clouds: high-throughput science using the Nimrod tool family / Blair Bethwaite ... [et al.]
pt. 3. Cloud breaks. 14. Cloud compliance: a framework for using cloud computing in a regulated world / Shawn R. Chaput and Katarina Ringwood
15. Cloud computing: data confidentiality and interoperability challenges / Fabrizio Gagliardi and Silvana Muscella
16. Security issues to cloud computing / Cyril Onwubiko
17. Securing the cloud / James P. Durbano ... [et al.]
pt. 4. Cloud feedback. 18. Technologies for enforcement and distribution of policy in cloud architectures / K.W. Scott Morrison
19. The PRISM on-demand digital media cloud / Terry Harmer, Ron Perrott, and Rhys Lewis
20. Cloud economics: principles, costs, and benefits / Asoke K. Talukder, Lawrence Zimmerman, and Prahalad H.A
21. Towards application-specific service level agreements: experiments in clouds and grids / Bin Li, Lee Gillam, and John O'Loughlin.

Cloud computing has recently emerged as a subject of substantial industrial and academic interest, though its meaning and scope is hotly debated. For some researchers, clouds are a natural evolution towards the full commercialisation of grid systems, while others dismiss the term as a mere re-branding of existing pay-per-use technologies. From either perspective, "cloud" is now the label of choice for accountable pay-per-use access to third party applications and computational resources on a massive scale. Clouds support patterns of less predictable resource use for applications and services across the IT spectrum, from online office applications to high-throughput transactional services and high-performance computations involving substantial quantities of processing cycles and storage. The concept of clouds seems to blur the distinctions between a variety of technologies that encompass grid services, web services and data centres, and leads to considerations of lowered-cost provisioning for bursty applications. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the state of the art in cloud computing, highlighting and clarifying the conceptual and systemic links with other distributed computing approaches.

This essential reference is a thorough and timely examination of the services, interfaces and types of applications that can be executed on cloud-based systems. Among other things, it identifies and highlights state-of-the-art techniques and methodologies.

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