Cloud Computing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Limitations and Challenges of Cloud Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Attacks in Public Clouds: Can They Hinder the Rise of the Cloud?

      • Saeed Shafieian, Mohammad Zulkernine, Anwar Haque

      Pages 3-22

   3. Distributed Database Management Systems: Architectural Design Choices for the Cloud

      • Joarder Mohammad Mustafa Kamal, Manzur Murshed

      Pages 23-50

   4. Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements for Cloud Environments: Issues and Challenges

      • Inderveer Chana, Sukhpal Singh

      Pages 51-72

3. Current Developments and R&D Solution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. A Methodology for Cloud Security Risks Management

      • Mariam Kiran

      Pages 75-104

   3. SecDSIM: A Framework for Secure Data Storage and Identity Management in the Cloud

      • Shaga Praveen, G. R. Gangadharan

      Pages 105-125

   4. CloudReports: An Extensible Simulation Tool for Energy-Aware Cloud Computing Environments

      • Thiago Teixeira Sá, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Danielo G. Gomes

      Pages 127-142

   5. Cloud Computing: Efficient Congestion Control in Data Center Networks

      • Chi Harold Liu, Jian Shi, Jun Fan

      Pages 143-177

   6. Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation in IaaS Cloud Computing

      • Md Hasanul Ferdaus, Manzur Murshed

      Pages 179-208

   7. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for Cloud Applications

      • Lin Lin, Ping Lin

      Pages 209-233

4. Advances in Cloud Technologies and Future Trends

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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   2. Virtualization and Cloud Security: Benefits, Caveats, and Future Developments

      • Flavio Lombardi, Roberto Di Pietro

      Pages 237-255

   3. Quality-of-Service Data Warehouse for the Selection of Cloud Services: A Recent Trend

      • Ahmad Karawash, Hamid Mcheick, Mohamed Dbouk

      Pages 257-276

   4. Characterizing Cloud Federation Approaches

      • Attila Kertesz

      Pages 277-296

   5. Security Aspects of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in Cloud Computing

      • Faria Mehak, Rahat Masood, Yumna Ghazi, Muhammad Awais Shibli, Sharifullah Khan

      Pages 297-324

   6. Beyond the Clouds: How Should Next Generation Utility Computing Infrastructures Be Designed?

      • Marin Bertier, Frédéric Desprez, Gilles Fedak, Adrien Lebre, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Jonathan Pastor et al.

      Pages 325-345

5. Back Matter

   Pages 347-352

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This book reviews the challenging issues that present barriers to greater implementation of the cloud computing paradigm, together with the latest research into developing potential solutions. Topics and features: presents a focus on the most important issues and limitations of cloud computing, covering cloud security and architecture, QoS and SLAs; discusses a methodology for cloud security management, and proposes a framework for secure data storage and identity management in the cloud; introduces a simulation tool for energy-aware cloud environments, and an efficient congestion control system for data center networks; examines the issues of energy-aware VM consolidation in the IaaS provision, and software-defined networking for cloud related applications; reviews current trends and suggests future developments in virtualization, cloud security, QoS data warehouses, cloud federation approaches, and DBaaS provision; predicts how the next generation of utility computing infrastructures will be designed.

• Cloud Interoperability and Performance
• Cloud Security
• Cloud Service Level Agreements
• Data Privacy and Confidentiality
• Identity and Access Management
• Open Standards

“This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and potential solutions to problems associated with cloud computing. … Each chapter includes references. Given the number of authors involved in the work, the editor did a good job of controlling the uniformity of the book's structure. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners.” (J. Beidler, Choice, Vol. 52 (9), May, 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 Continued Rise of the Cloud: Advances and Trends in Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches, Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures, and Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm.

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