Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions

by Zaigham Mahmood

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319105291
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/21/2014
Series:	Computer Communications and Networks
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Limitations and Challenges of Cloud Environments.- Attacks in Public Clouds.- Distributed Database Management Systems.- Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements for Cloud Environments.- Part II: Current Developments and R&D Solutions.- A Methodology for Cloud Security Risk Management.- SecDSIM.- CloudReports.- Cloud Computing: Efficient Congestion Control in Data Center Networks.- Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation in IaaS Cloud Computing.- Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for Cloud Applications.- Part III: Advances in Cloud Technologies and Future Trends.- Virtualization and Cloud Security.- Quality-of-Service Data Warehouse for the Selection of Cloud Services.- Characterizing Cloud Federation Approaches.- Security Aspects of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in Cloud Computing.- Beyond the Clouds: How Should Next Generation Utility Computing Infrastructures Be Designed?

Editorial Reviews

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)

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