Gebundenes Buch

Continued Rise of the Cloud

Advances and Trends in Cloud Computing

Herausgegeben: 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.

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

• Computer Communications and Networks
• Verlag: Springer / Springer, Berlin / Springer, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 86250649
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9781447164517
• ISBN-10: 1447164512
• Artikelnr.: 40590622

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)