Buyya R., Broberg J., Goscinski A. Cloud Computing. Principles and Paradigms

John Wiley, 2011. — 675 p.Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in the ICT industry. Numerous IT vendors are promising to offer computation, storage, and application hosting services and to provide coverage in several continents, offering service-level agreements (SLA)-backed performance and uptime promises for their services. While these clouds are the natural evolution of traditional data centers, they are distinguished by exposing resources (computation, data/storage, and applications) as standards-based Web services and following a utility pricing model where customers are charged based on their utilization of computational resources, storage, and transfer of data. They offer subscription-based access to infrastructure, platforms, and applications that are popularly referred to as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and SaaS (Software as a Service). While these emerging services have increased interoperability and usability and reduced the cost of computation, application hosting, and content storage and delivery by several orders of magnitude, there is significant complexity involved in ensuring that applications and services can scale as needed to achieve consistent and reliable operation under peak loads.
Currently, expert developers are required to implement cloud services. Cloud vendors, researchers, and practitioners alike are working to ensure that potential users are educated about the benefits of cloud computing and the best way to harness the full potential of the cloud. However, being a new and popular paradigm, the very definition of cloud computing depends on which computing expert is asked. So, while the realization of true utility computing appears closer than ever, its acceptance is currently restricted to cloud experts due to the perceived complexities of interacting with cloud computing providers.
This book illuminates these issues by introducing the reader with the cloud computing paradigm. The book provides case studies of numerous existing compute, storage, and application cloud services and illustrates capabilities and limitations of current providers of cloud computing services. This allows the reader to understand the mechanisms needed to harness cloud computing in their own respective endeavors. Finally, many open research problems that have arisen from the rapid uptake of cloud computing are detailed. We hope that this motivates the reader to address these in their own future research and development. We believe the book to serve as a reference for larger audience such as systems architects, practitioners, developers, new researchers, and graduate-level students. This book also comes with an associated Web site (hosted at http://www.manjrasoft.com/CloudBook/) containing pointers to advanced on-line resources.Foundations
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Migrating into a Cloud
Enriching the ‘Integration as a Service’ Paradigm for the Cloud Era
The Enterprise Cloud Computing Paradigm
Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)
Virtual Machines Provisioning and Migration Services
On the Management of Virtual Machines for Cloud Infrastructures
Enhancing Cloud Computing Environments Using a Cluster as a Service
Secure Distributed Data Storage in Cloud Computing
Platform and Software as a Service (PAAS/IAAS)
Aneka—Integration of Private and Public Clouds
CometCloud: An Autonomic Cloud Engine
T-Systems’ Cloud-Based Solutions for Business Applications
Workflow Engine for Clouds
Understanding Scientific Applications for Cloud Environments
The MapReduce Programming Model and Implementations
Monitoring and Management
An Architecture for Federated Cloud Computing
SLA Management in Cloud Computing: A Service Provider’s Perspective
Performance Prediction for HPC on Clouds
Applications
Best Practices in Architecting Cloud Applications in the AWS Cloud
Massively Multiplayer Online Game Hosting on Cloud Resources
Building Content Delivery Networks Using Clouds
Resource Cloud Mashups
Governance and Case Studies
Organizational Readiness and Change Management in the Cloud Age
Data Security in the Cloud
Legal Issues in Cloud Computing
Achieving Production Readiness for Cloud Services