Cloud Computing Principles and Paradigms

16The primary purpose of this book is to capture the state-of-the-art in Cloud Computing technologies and applications. The book will also aim to identify potential research directions and technologies that will facilitate creation a global market-place of cloud computing services supporting scientific, industrial, business, and consumer applications. We expect the book to serve as a reference for larger audience such as systems architects, practitioners, developers, new researchers and graduate level students. This area of research is relatively recent, and as such has no existing reference book that addresses it.This book will be a timely contribution to a field that is gaining considerable research interest, momentum, and is expected to be of increasing interest to commercial developers. The book is targeted for professional computer science developers and graduate students especially at Masters level. As Cloud Computing is recognized as one of the top five emerging technologies16 that will have a major impact on the quality of science and society over the next 20 years, its knowledge will help position our readers at the forefront of the field. Captures the state of the art in cloud computing technologies and applicationsThe latest topic of discussion in the information and communication industry, cloud computing is a top emerging technology that will have a major impact on the quality of science and society over the next two decades. This book fully explains this new, popular paradigm while identifying potential research directions that will facilitate the creation of a global marketplace of cloud computing services supporting scientific, industrial, business, and consumer applications.While cloud services have reduced the cost of computation, application hosting, and content storage and delivery, there is significant complexity involved in ensuring that applications, services, and data can scale as needed to achieve consistent and reliable operation u16nder peak loads. This book allows the reader to understand the mechanisms needed to successfully harness cloud computing, providing real-world case studies of numerous existing computing, storage, and application cloud services and illustrating the capabilities and limitations of current providers of cloud computing services.Featuring chapters authored by several leading experts in the field, Cloud Computing:Presents the fundamental concepts of cloud computing, charting evolution from mainframe, cluster, grid, and utility computingCovers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), from enabling technologies such as virtual machines and virtualized storage to sophisticated mechanisms for securely storing data in the cloud and managing virtual clustersIntroduces Platform and Software as a Service (PaaS/SaaS), detailing the delivery of cloud-hosted software and applicationsAddresses monitoring and management mechanisms for cloud computingDetails novel applications made possible by the16rapid emergence of cloud computing resources and best practices for architecting cloud applicationsOutlines the organizational, structural, regulatory, and legal issues commonly encountered in cloud computing environmentsIncluding examples that illustrate problems and references for each chapter, Cloud Computing is an ideal reference for systems architects, practitioners, developers, new researchers, and graduate-level students. It can be taught in its own right to coursework masters students, or it can be used as part of general cloud and distributed computing-related courses.02Rajkumar Buyya is Co-Chair of the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing and an international speaker in the IEEE Computer Society Chapter Tutorials Program. Currently at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, he is conducting R&D on the use of an economics paradigm for peer-to-peer and grid-based service-oriented computing. He has co-authored Microprocessor x86 Programming and Mastering C++, and edited a popular two-volume book on high performance cluster computing. He has published over 50 research articles in major international journals and conferences.