The 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 technologies 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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations

1: Introduction to Cloud Computing

2: Migrating into a Cloud

3: Enriching the 'Integration as a Service' Paradigm for the Cloud Era

4: The Enterprise Cloud Computing Paradigm

Part II: Infrastructure As A Service (IMS)

5: Virtual Machines Provisioning and Migration Services

6: On the Management of Virtual Machines for Cloud Infrast ructures

7: Enhancing Cloud Computing Environments Using a Cluster as a Service

8: Secure Distributed Data Storage in Cloud Computing

Part Ill: Platform And Software As A Service (PMS/IMS)

9: Aneka-lntegration of Private and Public Clouds

10: CometCloud: An Autonomic Cloud Engine

11: T-Systems' Cloud-Based Solutions for Business Applications

12: Workflow Engine for Clouds

13: Understanding Scientific Applications for Cloud Environments

14: The MapReduce Programming Model and Implementations

Part IV: Monitoring And Management

15: An Architecture for Federated Cloud Computing

16: SLA Management in Cloud Computing: A Service Provider's Perspective

17: Performance Prediction for HPC on Clouds

Part V: Applications

18: Best Practices in Architecting Cloud Applications in the AWS Cloud

19: Massively Multiplayer Online Game Hosting on Cloud Resources

20: Building Content Delivery Networks Using Clouds

21: Resource Cloud Mashups

Part VI: Governance And Case Studies

22: Organizational Readiness and Change Management in the Cloud Age

23: Data Security in the Cloud

24: Legal Issues in Cloud Computing

25: Achieving Production Readiness for Cloud Services

About the Authors

Rajkumar Buyya is a Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering and Director of Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Lab at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He also serves as CEO of Manjrasoft creating innovative solutions for building and accelerating applications on clouds.

James Broberg is an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow with the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory at the University of Melbourne.

Andrzej Goscinski is a Chair Professor of Computing at Deakin University, Australia.