Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&d Solutions

By Zaigham Mahmood

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319353039
• ISBN13: 9783319353036
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"