"Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches" ed. by Zaigham Mahmood

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.

Contents
Preface
Metadata-Based Frameworks in the Context of Cloud Computing
Architecting Scientific Data Systems in the Cloud
Social, Dynamic and Custom-Based Clouds: Architecture, Services and Frameworks
Consumer Cloud: Concepts, Vendor Solutions, Industry Applications and Way Forward
Role of Service Brokers in Cloud Computing
Resource and Scheduling Management in Cloud Computing Application Paradigm.
Management Infrastructures for Power-Efficient Cloud Computing Architectures
Cloud Computing: A Mobile Context-Awareness Perspective
Potential Concerns and Common Benefits of Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Infrastructural Solutions.
Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Application and Platform Solutions
Cloud Application Modernization and Migration Methodology
An Assessment Tool to Prepare the Leap to the Cloud
Leveraging Potential of Cloud for Software Performance Testing
Open-Source Cloudware Support for the Portability of Applications Using Cloud Infrastructure Services