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Continued Rise of the Cloud

Advances and Trends in Cloud Computing

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Zaigham Mahmood

    1. University of Derby, United Kingdom

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  • Discusses the latest advances, current trends and future directions in the cloud computing paradigm
  • Analyses the relevant theoretical frameworks, practical approaches and methodologies currently in use
  • Provides guidance and best practices for development of cloud-based services and infrastructures
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Access Control Mechanisms and Cloud Security

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Towards a GPU Cloud: Benefits and Security Issues

      • Flavio Lombardi, Roberto Di Pietro
      Pages 3-22

    3. Taxonomy and Classification of Access Control Models for Cloud Environments

      • Abhishek Majumder, Suyel Namasudra, Samir Nath
      Pages 23-53

    4. Access Control As a Service in Cloud: Challenges, Impact and Strategies

      • Muhammad Awais Shibli, Rahat Masood, Umme Habiba, Ayesha Kanwal, Yumna Ghazi, Rafia Mumtaz
      Pages 55-99

  3. Standards, Brokerage Services and Certification

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Realization of Open Cloud Computing Standards, Forums and Platforms

      • G M Siddesh, K G Srinivasa
      Pages 103-117

    3. Role of Broker in InterCloud Environment

      • Saswati Mukherjee, Shyamala Loganathan
      Pages 119-144

    4. Patterns of Trust: Role of Certification for SME Cloud Adoption

      • Alea M. Fairchild
      Pages 145-158

  4. Frameworks for ERP, Big Data and Interoperability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. A Framework for Evaluating Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems

      • T. Chandrakumar, S. Parthasarathy
      Pages 161-175

    3. DIPAR: A Framework for Implementing Big Data Science in Organizations

      • Luis Eduardo Bautista Villalpando, Alain April, Alain Abran
      Pages 177-194

    4. A Framework for Cloud Interoperability Based on Compliance and Conformance

      • José Carlos Martins Delgado
      Pages 195-232

  5. Management, Governance and Capability Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Survey of Elasticity Management Solutions in Cloud Computing

      • Amro Najjar, Xavier Serpaggi, Christophe Gravier, Olivier Boissier
      Pages 235-263

    3. From Cloud Management to Cloud Governance

      • Teodor-Florin Fortis, Victor Ion Munteanu
      Pages 265-287

    4. Towards the Development of a Cloud Service Capability Assessment Framework

      • Noel Carroll, Markus Helfert, Theo Lynn
      Pages 289-336

  6. Applications in Education and Other Scenarios

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 337-337
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    2. Cloud Computing Within Higher Education: Applying Knowledge as a Service (KaaS)

      • Alexandros Chrysikos, Rupert Ward
      Pages 339-362

    3. Cloud Computing Environment for e-Learning Services for Students with Disabilities

      • Aleksandar Milić, Konstantin Simić, Miloš Milutinović
      Pages 363-381
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About this book

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.

Reviews

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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Derby, United Kingdom

    Zaigham Mahmood

About the editor

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Continued Rise of the Cloud

  • Book Subtitle: Advances and Trends in Cloud Computing

  • Editors: Zaigham Mahmood

  • Series Title: Computer Communications and Networks

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6452-4

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6451-7Published: 23 July 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-7252-9Published: 03 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-6452-4Published: 07 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1617-7975

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-8433

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 410

  • Number of Illustrations: 98 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Systems and Data Security

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