Encyclopedia of cloud computing

The Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing provides IT professionals, educators, researchers and students with a compendium of cloud computing knowledge. Authored by a spectrum of subject matter experts in industry and academia, this unique publication, in a single volume, covers a wide range of cloud computing topics, including technological trends and developments, research opportunities, best practices, standards, and cloud adoption. Providing multiple perspectives, it also addresses questions that stakeholders might have in the context of development, operation, management, and use of clouds. Furthermore, it examines cloud computing's impact now and in the future. The encyclopedia presents 56 chapters logically organized into 10 sections. Each chapter covers a major topic/area with cross-references to other chapters and contains tables, illustrations, side-bars as appropriate. Furthermore, each chapter presents its summary at the beginning and backend material, references and additional resources for further information.

About the Editors xii -- About the Authors xiv -- Reviewers xxxvi -- Foreword xxxviii -- Preface xxxix -- Acknowledgments xlv -- Part I Introduction to Cloud Computing 1 -- 1 Cloud Computing: An Overview 3 /San Murugesan and Irena Bojanova -- Part II Cloud Services 15 -- 2 Cloud Services and Service Providers 17 /K. Chandrasekaran and Alaka Ananth -- 3 Mobile Cloud Computing 29 /Saeid Abolfazli, Zohreh Sanaei, Mohammad Hadi Sanaei, Mohammad Shojafar, and Abdullah Gani -- 4 Community Clouds 41 /Amin M. Khan, Felix Freitag, and Leandro Navarro -- 5 Government Clouds 52 /Sean Rhody and Dan Dunn -- 6 Cloud?]Based Development Environments: PaaS 62 /Mehmet N. Aydin, Nazim Ziya Perdahci, and Bahadir Odevci -- Part III Cloud Frameworks and Technologies 71 -- 7 Cloud Reference Frameworks 73 /Kapil Bakshi and Larry Beser -- 8 Virtualization: An Overview 89 /Jim Sweeney -- 9 Cloud Network and I/O Virtualization 102 /Kapil Bakshi and Craig Hill -- 10 Cloud Networks 115 /Saurav Kanti Chandra and Krishnananda Shenoy -- 11 Wireless Datacenter Networks 128 /Yong Cui and Ivan Stojmenovic -- 12 Open?]Source Cloud Software Solutions 139 /G. R. Gangadharan, Deepnarayan Tiwari, Lalit Sanagavarapu, Sha…