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Cloud Bibliography
by Safari Content TeamOne of the greatest changes in the computing world has been the move to using common, distributed hardware and software to support services, coined cloud computing. We have chosen a selection of the most useful books in cloud computing within this bibliography. First we look at the basics and some of the key concepts and issues that arise in Cloud computing in general. Then we examine how the 'as a service' (aaS) has helped to drive and expand the reach of the cloud deployment environment. Next, the role of different cloud services, both internal to support cloud operations, and externally provided as a part of the web of cloud operational support are covered. Virtualization, the effective division of computing to more essential computing units has helped to make broad-spectrum web services effective and distributed, and is another key driver behind understanding the cloud. Combining both cloud services and existing datacenters is the role of the Hybrid cloud, aiming to take advantage of the best of both worlds. An array of cloud deployment and development platforms are described, covering both public and private cloud services. Throughout the cloud environment security is a major concern, especially when sharing and distributing user and customer data. Finally, the role of development tools and environments are examined, covering both key tools and entire development stacks. So, be sure to take advantage of the books and videos on cloud computing that you will find in the Safari Books Online library.
Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions (Computer Communications and Networks)
by Zaigham MahmoodThis 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.
Cloud Computing: 4th International Conference, CloudComp 2013, Wuhan, China, October 17-19, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #133)
by Victor C.M. Leung and Min ChenThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Cloud Comp 2013, held in Wuhan, China, in October 2013. The 28 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and cover topics such as mobile cloud computing, services, applications, IoT on cloud, architectures and big data, cloud-assisted pervasive computing and services, management and virtualization for cloud, cloud security.
Cloud Computing and Electronic Discovery (Wiley CIO)
by James P. Martin Harry CendrowskiExplore the frontier of electronic discovery in the cloud Cloud Computing and Electronic Discovery comprehensively covers the quickly-evolving realm of eDiscovery in cloud computing environments, a computing and legal frontier in which the rules and legal precedents are being developed anew seemingly by the day. The book delves into this fascinating and rapidly-developing topic to prepare fraud investigators, legal professionals, forensic accountants, and executives understand the ramifications of storing data with third party providers and how such storage mechanisms relate to the limits of discovery practices. This up-to-date resource also includes a complete discussion of the few existing legal precedents and current cases that are shaping interpretation of discovery laws in the cloud space, a perfect overview for executives storing their companies' data in the cloud and the legal professionals tasked with understanding and interpreting the discovery rules surrounding that data. The book is comprehensive in scope and includes: An overview of current trends in cloud computing, including potential information that should be considered in an investigation that involves data held by a cloud service provider Updates on current and proposed laws governing discovery of information held by a third party cloud service provider Updates on legal cases that address the issues of the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, the Federal law prohibiting release of information by a third party provider Practical guidance on how to consider the availability of cloud data relevant to an investigation, and how to include this data in discovery plans For business, accounting, and legal professionals, Cloud Computing and Electronic Discovery is an invaluable resource for understanding the nuanced development of cloud eDiscovery policies, practices, and law as they continue to unfold and develop.
Cloud Computing and ROI: A New Framework for IT Strategy (Management for Professionals)
by Sanjay Mohapatra Laxmikant LokhandeThis book develops an IT strategy for cloud computing that helps businesses evaluate their readiness for cloud services and calculate the ROI. The framework provided helps reduce risks involved in transitioning from traditional "on site" IT strategy to virtual "cloud computing. " Since the advent of cloud computing, many organizations have made substantial gains implementing this innovation. Cloud computing allows companies to focus more on their core competencies, as IT enablement is taken care of through cloud services. Cloud Computing and ROI includes case studies covering retail, automobile and food processing industries. Each of these case studies have successfully implemented the cloud computing framework and their strategies are explained. As cloud computing may not be ideal for all businesses, criteria are also offered to help determine if this strategy should be adopted.
Cloud Computing and Services Science: Third International Conference, CLOSER 2013, Aachen, Germany, May 8-10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #453)
by Markus Helfert, Frédéric Desprez, Donald Ferguson and Frank LeymannThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2013, held in Aachen, Germany, in May 2013. The 8 papers presented were selected from 142 paper submissions. The papers cover the following topics: cloud computing fundamentals; services science foundations for cloud computing; cloud computing platforms and applications; and cloud computing enabling technologies.
Cloud Computing Basics (SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering)
by S. SrinivasanCloud Computing Basics covers the main aspects of this fast moving technology so that both practitioners and students will be able to understand cloud computing. The author highlights the key aspects of this technology that a potential user might want to investigate before deciding to adopt this service. This book explains how cloud services can be used to augment existing services such as storage, backup and recovery. Addressing the details on how cloud security works and what the users must be prepared for when they move their data to the cloud. Also this book discusses how businesses could prepare for compliance with the laws as well as industry standards such as the Payment Card Industry.
Cloud Computing for Data-Intensive Applications
by Xiaolin Li Judy QiuThis book presents a range of cloud computing platforms for data-intensive scientific applications. It covers systems that deliver infrastructure as a service, including: HPC as a service; virtual networks as a service; scalable and reliable storage; algorithms that manage vast cloud resources and applications runtime; and programming models that enable pragmatic programming and implementation toolkits for eScience applications. Many scientific applications in clouds are also introduced, such as bioinformatics, biology, weather forecasting and social networks. Most chapters include case studies. Cloud Computing for Data-Intensive Applications targets advanced-level students and researchers studying computer science and electrical engineering. Professionals working in cloud computing, networks, databases and more will also find this book useful as a reference.
Cloud Data Management
by Sherif Sakr Athman Bouguettaya Liang Zhao Anna LiuIn practice, the design and architecture of a cloud varies among cloud providers. We present a generic evaluation framework for the performance, availability and reliability characteristics of various cloud platforms. We describe a generic benchmark architecture for cloud databases, specifically NoSQL database as a service. It measures the performance of replication delay and monetary cost. Service Level Agreements (SLA) represent the contract which captures the agreed upon guarantees between a service provider and its customers. The specifications of existing service level agreements (SLA) for cloud services are not designed to flexibly handle even relatively straightforward performance and technical requirements of consumer applications. We present a novel approach for SLA-based management of cloud-hosted databases from the consumer perspective and an end-to-end framework for consumer-centric SLA management of cloud-hosted databases. The framework facilitates adaptive and dynamic provisioning of the database tier of the software applications based on application-defined policies for satisfying their own SLA performance requirements, avoiding the cost of any SLA violation and controlling the monetary cost of the allocated computing resources. In this framework, the SLA of the consumer applications are declaratively defined in terms of goals which are subjected to a number of constraints that are specific to the application requirements. The framework continuously monitors the application-defined SLA and automatically triggers the execution of necessary corrective actions (scaling out/in the database tier) when required. The framework is database platform-agnostic, uses virtualization-based database replication mechanisms and requires zero source code changes of the cloud-hosted software applications.
Cloudera Administration Handbook
by Rohit MenonAn easy-to-follow Apache Hadoop administrator's guide filled with practical screenshots and explanations for each step and configuration. This book is great for administrators interested in setting up and managing a large Hadoop cluster. If you are an administrator, or want to be an administrator, and you are ready to build and maintain a production-level cluster running CDH5, then this book is for you.
Clusters, Orders, and Trees: In Honor of Boris Mirkin's 70th Birthday (Springer Optimization and Its Applications #92)
by Panos M. Pardalos Boris Goldengorin Fuad AleskerovThe volume is dedicated to Boris Mirkin on the occasion of his 70th birthday. In addition to his startling PhD results in abstract automata theory, Mirkin's ground breaking contributions in various fields of decision making and data analysis have marked the fourth quarter of the 20th century and beyond Mirkin has done pioneering work in group choice, clustering, data mining and knowledge discovery aimed at finding and describing non-trivial or hidden structures--first of all, clusters, orderings and hierarchies--in multivariate and/or network data. This volume contains a collection of papers reflecting recent developments rooted in Mirkin's fundamental contribution to the state-of-the-art in group choice, ordering, clustering, data mining and knowledge discovery. Researchers, students and software engineers will benefit from new knowledge discovery techniques and application directions.
Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science: 12th IFIP WG 1.3 International Workshop, CMCS 2014, Colocated with ETAPS 2014, Grenoble, France, April 5-6, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #8446)
by Marcello M. BonsangueThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science, CMCS 2014, colocated with ETAPS 2014, held in Grenoble, France, in April 2014. The 10 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. Also included are three invited talks. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the theory, logics and applications of coalgebras.
CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer
by Boisy G Pitre Bill LoguidiceCoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer is the first book to document the complete history of the Tandy Color Computer (CoCo), a popular 8-bit PC series from the 1980s that competed against the era's biggest names, including the Apple II, IBM PC, and Commodore 64. The book takes you inside the interesting stories and people behind t
Cocos2d-x Game Development Essentials
by Frahaan Hussain Arutosh Gurung Gareth JonesThis book is designed to help existing developers who are looking to learn this amazing framework, which provides cross-platform development. It is also perfect for developers who already have an existing C++ foundation and would like to learn game development using Cocos2d-x, or those who are coming from another framework.
The Coder's Path to Wealth and Independence
by Mark BecknerDevelopers, programmers, technical architects, and consultants: You are highly skilled and have deep commitment to your craft as well as the motivation to excel. It's time to step away from the perceived security of a full-time salaried position, or a marginally successful solo business, and step into a world of freedom, independence, and wealth. With your current technical skills, and an open mind, you can rapidly build a highly successful and ethical business--and on your own terms. The Coder's Path to Wealth and Independence explains how. Mark Beckner, himself, a highly successful itinerant developer, shows you how to transform yourself from a skilled programmer into a highly creative and effective businessperson leveraging the skills you already have. You will learn to create opportunities where none have existed, create value for yourself and those you work with, substantially increase your income, define your ideals, and realize your dreams. By utilizing the unique strategies outlined in The Coder's Path to Wealth and Independence to build your practice, you will find your path to personal, professional, and financial prosperity. The Coder's Path to Wealth and Independence will show you how to: Work from wherever you want Use your technical skills to create a high-revenue, highly independent business Learn the skills of the "rainmaker" to acquire new projects and clients Operate under various fee models, allowing you to increase your wealth and your freedom Rapidly create proposals and contracts Manage projects and execute on your goals with greater skill than ever In short, this book will help you discover a variety of powerful and unique approaches to business that will allow you be highly successful--where, how, and whenever you want. What you'll learn How to take your technical skills and create a high revenue, highly independent business based on them How to work from wherever you want, and stay in constant motion, on your terms How to create opportunities through unique approaches to client acquisition and advertising How to focus on self-mastery and discipline in order to create a thriving practice How to implement a powerful business model, tailored to solo developers and technical consultants, that enables you to work when, where, and how you want Who this book is for Coders, architects, and technical consultants, and anyone in the world of technology all have the core skills required to follow this path to freedom and riches. This is a guide targeted at people who want to create and grow thriving and rewarding solo, technically focused practices. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Travel: The Power of Staying in Motion Chapter 2: Skills: The Nature of Programming and Business Chapter 3: Discipline and Education: The Importance of Continuous Improvement Chapter 4: Ethics: The Foundation of Relationships and Business Chapter 5: Structuring Your Business: Protecting Yourself Chapter 6: Advertising and Marketing: The Science of Lead Creation Chapter 7: Prospecting and Sales: The Art of Rainmaking Chapter 8: Proposals and Contracts: Trust, Flexibility and Simplicity Chapter 9: Fees and Income: Creating a High Dollar Revenue Stream Chapter 10: Goal Setting: The Engine Behind Your Success Chapter 11: Growth and Expansion: Handling Success Chapter 12: Investing in Your Business and Utilizing Wealth: The Abundance Mentality Chapter 13: Health: Personal Vitality and the Impact on Your Business Chapter 14: Freedom through Business: Wealth, Dreams, and Independence
CoffeeScript in Action
by Patrick LeeSummaryCoffeeScript in Action is a tutorial that teaches you how, where, and why to use CoffeeScript. It begins by quickly exposing you to CoffeeScript's new, but instantly-familiar syntax. Then, you'll explore programming challenges that illustrate CoffeeScript's unique advantages. Language junkies will especially appreciate how this book takes idioms from other programming languages and shows you how CoffeeScript makes them available in JavaScript.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the BookJavaScript runs (almost) everywhere but it can be quirky and awkward. Its cousin CoffeeScript is easier to comprehend and compose. An expressive language, not unlike Ruby or Python, it compiles into standard JavaScript without modification and is a great choice for complex web applications. It runs in any JavaScript-enabled environment and is easy to use with Node.js and Rails.CoffeeScript in Action teaches you how, where, and why to use CoffeeScript. It immerses you in CoffeeScript's comfortable syntax before diving into the concepts and techniques you need in order to write elegant CoffeeScript programs. Throughout, you'll explore programming challenges that illustrate CoffeeScript's unique advantages. For language junkies, the book explains how CoffeeScript brings idioms from other languages into JavaScript.What's InsideCoffeeScript's syntax and structureWeb application patterns and best practicesPrototype-based OOPFunctional programmingAsynchronous programming techniquesBuilds and testingReaders need a basic grasp of web development and how JavaScript works. No prior exposure to CoffeeScript is required.About the AuthorPatrick Lee is a developer, designer, and software consultant, working with design startup Canva in Sydney, Australia.Table of ContentsPART 1 FOUNDATIONSThe road to CoffeeScriptSimplified syntaxFirst-class functionsDynamic objectsPART 2 COMPOSITIONComposing objectsComposing functionsStyle and semanticsMetaprogrammingComposing the asynchronousPART 3 APPLICATIONSDriving with testsIn the browserModules and buildsECMAScript and the future of CoffeeScript
Cognitive Computing: Steigerung des systemischen Intelligenzprofils
by Matthias HaunZiel des Buches ist, artifizielle Systeme als kognitive Modelle und damit als wissensbasierte Agenten zu konzeptionalisieren und diese Agentenmodelle durch rechnerbasierte Technologien in prozessualer und funktionaler Hinsicht zu kognitiven Probleml#65533;sungssysteme auszugestalten. Das Ziel eines solchen Ansatzes liegt in der Steigerung des systemischen Kognitionsquotienten solcher Systeme. Erreichbar wird dieses Ziel durch die Konzeptionalisierung von Modellen auf Basis einer Kognitionstheorie, der (Aus)implementierung dieser Modelle durch den Einsatz der Cognitive Computing Technologie unter Verwendung der Programmiersprache Java und der Validierung dieser L#65533;sungen im Rahmen von Simulationen. Das Buch wendet sich gleicherma#65533;en an Studierende, Fachleute aller Fachrichtungen als auch den interessierten Leser. Indem die einzelnen Kapitel einen Br#65533;ckenschlag zwischen Standardwissen und Wissen aus Nachbargebieten, wie Kognitionswissenschaft oder Informatik darstellen, versucht dieses Handbuch ein tiefgreifendes Verst#65533;ndnis des komplexen Themengebietes ,,Artifizielle Kognition" zu erm#65533;glichen und dabei dennoch voraussetzungsfrei lesbar zu bleiben.
Cognitive Networked Sensing and Big Data
by Michael Wicks Robert QiuWireless Distributed Computing and Cognitive Sensing defines high-dimensional data processing in the context of wireless distributed computing and cognitive sensing. This book presents the challenges that are unique to this area such as synchronization caused by the high mobility of the nodes. The author will discuss the integration of software defined radio implementation and testbed development. The book will also bridge new research results and contextual reviews. Also the author provides an examination of large cognitive radio network; hardware testbed; distributed sensing; and distributed computing.
Cognitive Radio Policy and Regulation: Techno-Economic Studies to Facilitate Dynamic Spectrum Access (Signals and Communication Technology)
by Arturas Medeisis Oliver HollandThis book offers a timely reflection on how the proliferation of advanced wireless communications technologies, particularly cognitive radio (CR) can be enabled by thoroughly-considered policy and appropriate regulation. It looks at the prospects of CR from the divergent standpoints of technological development and economic market reality. The book provides a broad survey of various techno-economic and policy aspects of CR development and provides the reader with an understanding of the complexities involved as well as a toolbox of possible solutions to enable the evolutionary leap towards successful implementation of disruptive CR technology or indeed any other novel wireless technologies. Cognitive Radio Policy and Regulation showcases the original ideas and concepts introduced into the field of CR and dynamic spectrum access policy over nearly four years of work within COST Action IC0905 TERRA, a think-tank with participants from more than 20 countries. The book's subject matter includes: * deployment scenarios for CR; * technical approaches for improved spectrum sharing; * economic aspects of CR policy and regulation; * impact assessment of cognitive and software-defined radio; and * novel approaches to spectrum policy and regulation for the age of CR. The book will interest researchers in the field of wireless communications, especially those working with standardization and policy issues, as well as industry and regulatory professionals concerned with radio spectrum management and the general development of wireless communications. Considerable complementary reference material such as power point slides and technical reports that illustrates and expands on the contents of the book is provided on the companion website to the book, found at http://www. cost-terra. org/CR-policy-book
Cognitive Radio Receiver Front-Ends: RF/Analog Circuit Techniques (Analog Circuits and Signal Processing #115)
by Bodhisatwa Sadhu Ramesh HarjaniThis book focuses on the architecture and circuit design for cognitive radio receiver front-ends. The authors first provide a holistic explanation of RF circuits for cognitive radio systems. This is followed by an in-depth exploration of existing techniques that can be utilized by circuit designers. Coverage also includes novel circuit techniques and architectures that can be invaluable for designers for cognitive radio systems.
Cognizanti - Volume 7: Cognizanti An annual journal produced by Cognizant
by Robert Hoyle Brown Nagaraja Srivatsan Aita Salasoo Benjamin Pring Alan Alper Bruce Rogow Gary Beach Akhil Tandulwadikar Amy Brady Nitin Virmani Steven Delacastro Thomas Kelly Sandeep Andugula Angus Burgess Jeff BoyleSeeing the Digital Future through a 2020 Lens In this issue, our authors peer over the horizon into the next decade to see how Code Halos will create engaging and even clairvoyant enterprises that can read the minds of customers, employees and business partners, and deliver personalized products and services that offer true value at the moment of need, sometimes even before the need is realized.
Collaboration and Technology: 22nd International Conference, CRIWG 2016, Kanazawa, Japan, September 14-16, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9848)
by Julita Vassileva Hiroaki Ogata Takaya Yuizono Ulrich HoppeThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Santiago, Chile, in September 2014. The 16 revised papers presented together with 18 progress papers and 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers published in proceedings of this year's and past CRIWG conferences reflect the trends in collaborative computing research and its evolution. There was a growing interest in social networks analysis, crowdsourcing and computer support for large communities in general. A special research topic which has been traditionally present in the CRIWG proceedings has been collaborative learning.
Collaboration Engineering: IT-gestützte Zusammenarbeitsprozesse systematisch entwickeln und durchführen
by Jan Marco LeimeisterIn Zeiten verteilter Wertschöpfungsstrukturen spielt die effektive Zusammenarbeit eine entscheidende Rolle im Kampf um Wettbewerbsvorteile. Diese Zusammenarbeit in Form von übertragbaren Prozessen zu gestalten, ist Kern des Collaboration Engineerings. Das Buch liefert einen umfassenden, auch für den Laien verständlichen Einblick in die Konzepte und Methoden, Werkzeuge und Anwendungen computerunterstützter Zusammenarbeit und betrachtet ihre Potenziale und Perspektiven. Ein Lehrbuch für Studierende und zugleich Handbuch für Entwickler und Anwender.
Collaboration, Learning and Innovation Across Outsourced Services Value Networks: Software Services Outsourcing in China (SpringerBriefs in Digital Spaces)
by Pamela Abbott Yingqin Zheng Rong DuThis book collects and reports on the results of a study conducted on the Chinese Software and Services Outsourcing (SSO) industry, focusing on one of its main players as a key case study. Two sets of research findings are presented: first, the knowledge management and communication processes inherent within a highly collaborative software development project between the case study company and one of its long-term UK clients are explored and distilled into specific practices; second, at the organizational level, the strategies used by the company to build and exploit capabilities and to dynamically configure resources to promote specific value positions along its outsourced services value networks are identified and discussed. The significance of these findings for similar China-based global high-tech firms and the value of this organizational form in moving closer to the goals of the 2020 enterprise vision are both discussed, along with the implications of the findings for EU/UK businesses operating in similar digital domains.
Collaboration Systems: Concept, Value, and Use (Advances In Management Information Systems Ser.)
by Jay F Nunamaker Jr Robert O Briggs Nicholas C Romano JrThis volume emphasises knowledge transfer from the lab to the field and describes collaboration technology through three lenses: Proof of Concept, Proof of Value, and Proof of Use. The contributors focus on work practices that extend collaboration into a structured form where groups can work together to solve real-world complex problems. As with the other AMIS volumes, the contributors comprise internationally known experts in the field of Information Systems.Includes online access.