Part I: Limitations and Challenges of Cloud Environments
Attacks in Public Clouds: Can They Hinder the Rise of the Cloud?
Saeed Shafieian, Mohammad Zulkernine, and Anwar Haque
Distributed Database Management Systems: Architectural Design Choices for the Cloud
Joarder Mohammad Mustafa Kamal and Manzur Murshed
Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements for Cloud Environments: Issues and Challenges
Inderveer Chana and Sukhpal Singh
Part II: Current Developments and R&D Solutions
A Methodology for Cloud Security Risk Management
Mariam Kiran
SecDSIM: A Framework for Secure Data Storage and Identity Management in the Cloud
Shaga Praveen and G.R. Gangadharan
CloudReports: An Extensible Simulation Tool for Energy-Aware Cloud Computing Environments
Thiago Teixeira Sá, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, and Danielo G. Gomes
Cloud Computing: Efficient Congestion Control in Data Center Networks
Chi Harold Liu, Jian Shi, and Jun Fan
Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation in IaaS Cloud Computing
Md Hasanul Ferdaus and Manzur Murshed
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for Cloud Applications
Lin Lin and Ping Lin
Part III: Advances in Cloud Technologies and Future Trends
Virtualization and Cloud Security: Benefits, Caveats and Future Developments
Flavio Lombardi and Roberto Di Pietro
Quality-of-Service Data Warehouse for the Selection of Cloud Services: A Recent Trend
Ahmad Karawash, Hamid Mcheick, and Mohamed Dbouk
Characterizing Cloud Federation Approaches
Attila Kertesz
Security Aspects of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in Cloud Computing
Faria Mehak, Rahat Masood, Yumna Ghazi, Awais Shibli, and Sharifullah Khan
Beyond the Clouds: How Should Next Generation Utility Computing Infrastructures Be Designed?
Marin Bertier, Frédéric Desprez, Gilles Fedak, Adrien Lebre, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Jonathan Pastor, Flavien Quesnel, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, and Cédric Tedeschi
About the Author: Prof. Zaigham Mahmood is an Associate Lecturer (Research) at the University of Derby, UK; Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education, UK; Professor Extraordinaire at North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa; and Foreign Professor at NUST Islamabad, Pakistan. His other publications include the successful Springer books Continued Rise of the Cloud: Advances and Trends in Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches, Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures, and Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm.
