Cloud Computing: Methodology, Systems, and Applications (Hardcover)

Cloud computing has created a shift from the use of physical hardware and locally managed software-enabled platforms to that of virtualized cloud-hosted services. Cloud assembles large networks of virtual services, including hardware (CPU, storage, and network) and software resources (databases, message queuing systems, monitoring systems, and load-balancers).

As Cloud continues to revolutionize applications in academia, industry, government, and many other fields, the transition to this efficient and flexible platform presents serious challenges at both theoretical and practical levels—ones that will often require new approaches and practices in all areas. Comprehensive and timely, Cloud Computing: Methodology, Systems, and Applications summarizes progress in state-of-the-art research and offers step-by-step instruction on how to implement it.

Ideal for a broad audience that includes researchers, engineers, IT professionals, and graduate students, this book is designed in three sections:

• Fundamentals of Cloud Computing: Concept, Methodology, and Overview
• Cloud Computing Functionalities and Provisioning
• Case Studies, Applications, and Future Directions

It addresses the obvious technical aspects of using Cloud but goes beyond, exploring the cultural/social and regulatory/legal challenges that are quickly coming to the forefront of discussion. Properly applied as part of an overall IT strategy, Cloud can help small and medium business enterprises (SMEs) and governments in optimizing expenditure on application-hosting infrastructure. This material outlines a strategy for using Cloud to exploit opportunities in areas including, but not limited to, government, research, business, high-performance computing, web hosting, social networking, and multimedia.

With contributions from a host of internationally recognized researchers, this reference delves into everything from necessary changes in users’ initial mindset to actual physical requirements for the successful integration of Cloud into existing in-house infrastructure. Using case studies throughout to reinforce concepts, this book also addresses recent advances and future directions in methodologies, taxonomies, IaaS/SaaS, data management and processing, programming models, and applications.

雲端運算已經從使用實體硬體和本地管理的軟體平台轉變為虛擬化的雲端服務。雲端組合了大型虛擬服務網絡，包括硬體（CPU、儲存和網路）和軟體資源（資料庫、訊息佇列系統、監控系統和負載平衡器）。

隨著雲端繼續在學術界、工業界、政府和其他領域革新應用，轉向這種高效靈活的平台在理論和實踐層面上都帶來了嚴峻的挑戰，這些挑戰通常需要在各個領域採用新的方法和實踐。《雲端運算：方法論、系統和應用》全面而及時地總結了最新研究的進展，並提供了實施該技術的逐步指導。

這本書適合廣泛的讀者，包括研究人員、工程師、IT專業人員和研究生，分為三個部分設計：

1. 雲端運算基礎：概念、方法論和概述
2. 雲端運算功能和供應
3. 案例研究、應用和未來發展

它不僅涵蓋了使用雲端的明顯技術方面，還探討了文化/社會和法規/法律方面的挑戰，這些挑戰正在迅速成為討論的焦點。如果作為整體IT策略的一部分正確應用，雲端可以幫助中小型企業和政府在應用程式託管基礎設施上優化支出。本書提出了一種利用雲端在政府、研究、商業、高性能運算、網站託管、社交網絡和多媒體等領域開發機會的策略。

本書由一批國際知名研究人員貢獻，從使用者的初步思維方式的必要變革到將雲端成功整合到現有內部基礎設施所需的實際物理要求，進行了深入探討。本書還通過案例研究強化概念，並討論了方法論、分類法、IaaS/SaaS、資料管理和處理、編程模型和應用的最新進展和未來發展方向。