Comprehensive and timely, Cloud Computing: Concepts and Technologies offers a thorough and detailed description of cloud computing concepts, architectures, and technologies, along with guidance on the best ways to understand and implement them. It covers the multi-core architectures, distributed and parallel computing models, virtualization, cloud developments, workload and Service-Level-Agreements (SLA) in cloud, workload management. Further, resource management issues in cloud with regard to resource provisioning, resource allocation, resource mapping and resource adaptation, ethical, non-ethical and security issues in cloud are followed by discussion of open challenges and future directions.

This book gives students a comprehensive overview of the latest technologies and guidance on cloud computing, and is ideal for those studying the subject in specific modules or advanced courses. It is designed in twelve chapters followed by laboratory setups and experiments. Each chapter has multiple choice questions with answers, as well as review questions and critical thinking questions. The chapters are practically-focused, meaning that the information will also be relevant and useful for professionals wanting an overview of the topic.

About the Author

Dr. Sunilkumar S. Manvi is currently working as a Professor and Director
in School of Computing and Information Technology, REVA University,
Bengaluru, India. He received his B. E. Degree from Karnataka University,
M. E. degree in Electronics from the University of Visweshwariah College
of Engineering, Bangalore and Ph. D. degree in Electrical Communication
Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He has vast experience
of more than 30 years in teaching and research. His research interests
are: Software Agent based Network Management, Wireless Networks, Multimedia
Networking, Underwater Networks, Wireless Network Security, Grid
and Cloud computing. He has published around 295 papers in international
journals and conferences, and 15 publications in books/book-chapters. He is
Fellow IETE India, Fellow IEEE India, Member ACM USA, and senior member
of IEEE USA. He received best research publication award from VGST
Karnataka in 2014. He has been awarded with Sathish Dhawan Young Engineers
State Award for outstanding contribution in the eld of Engineering
Sciences in 2015 by DST Karnataka India. He is a reviewer and programme
committee member for many journals.

Dr. Gopal K. Shyam is currently working as a Professor in School of
Computing and Information Technology, REVA University, Bengaluru, India.
He received BE, M.Tech, and Ph.D from Visvesvaraya Technological University,
Belagavi. He has handled several several subjects for UG/PG Students
like Algorithms, Computer Networks, Web programming, Advanced Computer
architecture, Information security, Computer Concepts and C Programming.
His research interest includes Cloud Computing, Grid computing, High
performance computing etc. He is a member of IEEE and ACM and is actively
involved in motivating students/faculties to join professional societies. He has
an experience of around 13 years in Teaching and Research.

Book Information
ISBN 9780367554613
Author Sunilkumar Manvi
Format Paperback
Page Count 350
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g