Part I: Cloud Infrastructures and Frameworks -- Metadata-Based Frameworks in the Context of Cloud Computing -- Architecting Scientific Data Systems in the Cloud -- Social, Dynamic and Custom-Based Clouds -- Consumer Cloud -- Part II: Cloud Enablement and Management -- Role of Service Brokers in Cloud Computing -- Resource and Scheduling Management in the Cloud Computing Application Paradigm -- Management Infrastructures for Power-Efficient Cloud Computing Architectures -- Part III: Cloud Perspectives and Patterns -- Cloud Computing: A Mobile Context-Awareness Perspective -- Potential Concerns and Common Benefits of Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning -- Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Infrastructural Solutions -- Cloud Computing Solution Patterns: Application and Platform Solutions -- Part IV: Cloud Modernization and Migration -- Cloud Application Modernization and Migration Methodology -- An Assessment Tool to Prepare the Leap to the Cloud -- Leveraging the Potential of the Cloud for Software Performance Testing -- Open Source Cloudware Support for the Portability of Applications using Cloud Infrastructure Services.

The benefits associated with cloud computing are enormous; yet the dynamic, virtualized, distributed and multi-tenant nature of the cloud environment presents many challenges. To help tackle these challenges, Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches provides illuminating viewpoints and helpful case studies, supplied by an international selection of pre-eminent authorities from both industry and academia. This comprehensive text/reference 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 This timely volume is ideal for use both as a primer/textbook for students of cloud computing, and as a professional reference for software architects, infrastructure specialists and other cloud practitioners. A program of study for a 12-week teaching semester is suggested in the Preface. Dr. Zaigham Mahmood is a researcher at the University of Derby UK, a Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education, and Foreign Professor at NUST Islamabad, Pakistan. His other publications include the successful Springer books Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures and Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm.