Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Cloud base. 1. Tools and technologies for building clouds / Hai Jin ... [et al.] -- 2. A taxonomy, survey, and issues of cloud computing ecosystems / Bhaskar Prasad Rimal, Eunmi Choi, and Ian Lumb -- 3. Towards a taxonomy for cloud computing from an e-science perspective / Daniel de Oliveira, Fernanda Araujo Baião, and Marta Mattoso -- 4. Examining cloud computing from the perspective of grid and computer-supported cooperative work / Jinlei Jiang and Guangwen Yang -- 5. Overview of cloud standards / Anand Govindarajan and Lakshmanan -- pt. 2. Cloud seeding. 6. Open and interoperable clouds: the cloud@home way / Vincenzo D. Cunsolo ... [et al.] -- 7. A peer-to-peer framework for supporting MapReduce applications in dynamic cloud environments / Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, and Paolo Trunfio -- 8. Enhanced network support for scalable computing clouds / Francesco Pamieri and Silvio Pardi -- 9. YML-PC: a reference architecture based on workflow for building scientific private clouds / Ling Shang ... [et al.] -- 10: An efficient framework for running applications on clusters, grids, and clouds / Brian Amedro ... [et al.] -- 11. Resource management for hybrid grid and cloud computing / Simon Ostermann, Radu Prodan, and Thomas Fahringer -- 12. Peer-to-peer cloud provisioning: service discovery and load-balancing / Rajiv Ranjan ... [et al.] -- 13. Mixing grids and clouds: high-throughput science using the Nimrod tool family / Blair Bethwaite ... [et al.] -- pt. 3. Cloud breaks. 14. Cloud compliance: a framework for using cloud computing in a regulated world / Shawn R. Chaput and Katarina Ringwood -- 15. Cloud computing: data confidentiality and interoperability challenges / Fabrizio Gagliardi and Silvana Muscella -- 16. Security issues to cloud computing / Cyril Onwubiko -- 17. Securing the cloud / James P. Durbano ... [et al.] -- pt. 4. Cloud feedback. 18. Technologies for enforcement and distribution of policy in cloud architectures / K.W. Scott Morrison -- 19. The PRISM on-demand digital media cloud / Terry Harmer, Ron Perrott, and Rhys Lewis -- 20. Cloud economics: principles, costs, and benefits / Asoke K. Talukder, Lawrence Zimmerman, and Prahalad H.A -- 21. Towards application-specific service level agreements: experiments in clouds and grids / Bin Li, Lee Gillam, and John O'Loughlin.

Cloud computing has recently emerged as a subject of substantial industrial & academic interest, though its meaning & scope is hotly debated. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the state-of-the-art in cloud computing, highlighting & clarifying the conceptual & systemic links with other distributed computing approaches.