Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches

Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches (Computer Communications and Networks)
This book presents both state-of-the-art research developments and practical guidance on approaches, technologies and frameworks for the emerging cloud paradigm. Topics and features: presents the state of the art in cloud technologies, infrastructures, and service delivery and deployment models; discusses relevant theoretical frameworks, practical approaches and suggested methodologies; offers guidance and best practices for the development of cloud-based services and infrastructures, and examines management aspects of cloud computing; reviews consumer perspectives on mobile cloud computing and cloud-based enterprise resource planning; explores software performance testing, open-source cloudware support, and assessment methodologies for modernization, migration and pre-migration; describes emerging new methodologies relevant to the cloud paradigm, and provides suggestions for future developments and research directions.

Table of Contents

Part I: Cloud Infrastructures and Frameworks
Chapter 1: Metadata-Based Frameworks in the Context of Cloud Computing
Chapter 2: Architecting Scientific Data Systems in the Cloud
Chapter 3: Social, Dynamic and Custom-Based Clouds: Architecture, Services and Frameworks
Chapter 4: Consumer Cloud: Concepts, Vendor Solutions, Industry Applications and Way Forward

Part II: Cloud Enablement and Management
Chapter 5: Role of Service Brokers in Cloud Computing
Chapter 6: Resource and Scheduling Management in Cloud Computing Application Paradigm
Chapter 7: Management Infrastructures for Power- Efficient Cloud Computing Architectures

Part III: Cloud Perspectives and Patterns
Chapter 8: Cloud Computing: A Mobile Context- Awareness Perspective
Chapter 9: Potential Concerns and Common Benefits of Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Chapter 10: Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Infrastructural Solutions
Chapter 11: Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Application and Platform Solutions

Part IV:Cloud Modernization and Migration
Chapter 12: Cloud Application Modernization and Migration Methodology
Chapter 13: An Assessment Tool to Prepare the Leap to the Cloud
Chapter 14: Leveraging Potential of Cloud for Software Performance Testing
Chapter 15: Open-Source Cloudware Support for the Portability of Applications Using Cloud Infrastructure Services