Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches (Computer Communications and Networks)

This book presents both stateoftheart 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 cloudbased services and infrastructures, and examines management aspects of cloud computing; reviews consumer perspectives on mobile cloud computing and cloudbased enterprise resource planning; explores software performance testing, opensource cloudware support, and assessment methodologies for modernization, migration and premigration; describes emerging new methodologies relevant to the cloud paradigm, and provides suggestions for future developments and research directions.