Continued Rise of the Cloud

1. Applications in Education and Other Scenarios

   1. Application Scenarios Suitable for Deployment in Cloud Environments

      • Rahul Bandopadhyaya, Vinay Rangaraju Nagavara

      Pages 383-402

2. ERRATUM to Chapter 12

   • Noel Carroll, Markus Helfert, Theo Lynn

   Pages E1-E1

3. Back Matter

   Pages 403-410

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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.

• Big Data
• Cloud Bridging
• Cloud Brokerage Services
• Cloud Interoperability
• Cloud Patterns
• Cloud Security Mechanisms
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Inter-Cloud Integration
• Internet of Clouds
• Open Clouds
• Open Standards
• ‘Cloud as a Service’

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)

• University of Derby, United Kingdom

  Zaigham Mahmood

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.

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