Computer Communications and Networks: Advances and Trends in Cloud Computing

Mahmood, Zaigham

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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2014-07-23

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781447164517

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-6452-4

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 410