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Cloud Computing Theory and Practice

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ISBN-10: 0124046274

ISBN-13: 9780124046276

Edition: 2013

Authors: Dan C. Marinescu

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Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice provides students and IT professionals with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. Beginning with a discussion of parallel computing and architectures and distributed systems, the book turns to contemporary cloud infrastructures, how they are being deployed at leading companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple, and how they can be applied in fields such as healthcare, banking and science. The volume also examines how to successfully deploy a cloud application across the enterprise using virtualization, resource management and the right amount of networking support, including content delivery networks and storage area networks. Developers…    
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Book details

List price: $47.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 7/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.21" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English

Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Network-Centric Computing and Network-Centric Content
Peer-to-Peer Systems
Cloud Computing: An Old Idea Whose Time has Come
Cloud Computing Delivery Models and Services
Ethical Issues in Cloud Computing
Cloud Vulnerabilities
Major Challenges Faced by Cloud Computing
Further Reading
History Notes
Exercises and Problems
Parallel and Distributed Systems
Parallel Computing
Parallel Computer Architecture
Distributed Systems
Global State of a Process Group
Communication Protocols and Process Coordination
Logical Clocks
Message Delivery Rules; Causal Delivery
Runs and Cuts; Causal History
Concurrency
Atomic Actions
Consensus Protocols
Modeling Concurrency with Petri Nets
Enforced Modularity: The Client-Server Paradigm
Further Reading
History Notes
Exercises and Problems
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Computing at Amazon
Cloud Computing: The Google Perspective
Microsoft Windows Azure and Online Services
Open-Source Software Platforms for Private Clouds
Cloud Storage Diversity and Vendor Lock-in
Cloud Computing Interoperability: The Intercloud
Energy Use and Ecological Impact of Large-Scale Data Centers
Service- and Compliance-Level Agreements
Responsibility Sharing Between User and Cloud Service Provider
User Experience
Software Licensing
Further Reading
History Notes
Exercises and Problems
Cloud Computing: Applications and Paradigms
Challenges for Cloud Computing
Existing Cloud Applications and New Application Opportunities
Architectural Styles for Cloud Applications
Workflows: Coordination of Multiple Activities
Coordination Based on a State Machine Model: The ZooKeeper
The MapReduce Programming Model
A Case Study: The Grep The Web Application
Clouds for Science and Engineering
High-Performance Computing on a Cloud
Cloud Computing for Biology Research
Social Computing, Digital Content, and Cloud Computing
Further Reading
Exercises and Problems
Cloud Resource Virtualization
Virtualization
Layering and Virtualization
Virtual Machine Monitors
Virtual Machines
Performance and Security Isolation
Full Virtualization and Paravirtualization
Hardware Support for Virtualization
Case Study: Xen, a VMM Based on Paravirtualization
Optimization of Network Virtualization in Xen 2.0
vBlades: Paravirtualization Targeting an X86-64 Itanium Processor
A Performance Comparison of Virtual Machines
The Darker Side of Virtualization
Software Fault Isolation
Further Reading
History Notes
Exercises and Problems
Cloud Resource Management and Scheduling
Policies and Mechanisms for Resource Management
Applications of Control Theory to Task Scheduling on a Cloud
Stability of a Two-Level Resource Allocation Architecture
Feedback Control Based on Dynamic Thresholds
Coordination of Specialized Autonomic Performance Managers
A Utility-Based Model for Cloud-Based Web Services
Resource Bundling: Combinatorial Auctions for Cloud Resources
Scheduling Algorithms for Computing Clouds
Fair Queuing
Start-Time Fair Queuing
Borrowed Virtual Time
Cloud Scheduling Subject to Deadlines
Scheduling MapReduce Applications Subject to Deadlines
Resource Management and Dynamic Application Scaling
Further Reading
Exercises and Problems
Networking Support
Packet-Switched Networks
The Internet
Internet Migration to IPv6
The Transformation of the Internet
Web Access and the TCP Congestion Control Window
Network Resource Management
Interconnection Networks for Computer Clouds
Storage Area Networks
Content-Delivery Networks
Overlay Networks and Small-World Networks
Scale-Free Networks
Epidemic Algorithms
Further Reading
History Notes
Exercises and Problems
Storage Systems
The Evolution of Storage Technology
Storage Models, File Systems, and Databases
Distributed File Systems: The Precursors
General Parallel File System
Google File System
Apache Hadoop
Locks and Chubby: A Locking Service
Transaction Processing and NoSQL Databases
BigTable
Megastore
History Notes
Further Reading
Exercises and Problems
Cloud Security
Cloud Security Risks
Security: The Top Concern for Cloud Users
Privacy and Privacy Impact Assessment
Trust
Operating System Security
Virtual Machine Security
Security of Virtualization
Security Risks Posed by Shared Images
Security Risks Posed by a Management OS
Xoar: Breaking the Monolithic Design of the TCB
A Trusted Virtual Machine Monitor
Further Reading
Exercises and Problems
Complex Systems and Self-Organization
Complex Systems
Abstraction and Physical Reality
Quantifying Complexity
Emergence and Self-Organization
Composability Bounds and Scalability
Modularity, Layering, and Hierarchy
More on the Complexity of Computing and Communication Systems
Systems of Systems: Challenges and Solutions
Further Reading
Exercises and Problems
Cloud Application Development
Amazon Web Services: EC2 Instances
Connecting Clients to Cloud Instances Through Firewalls
Security Rules for Application and Transport Layer Protocols in EC2
How to Launch an EC2 Linux Instance and Connect to it
How to Use S3 in Java
How to Manage SQS Services in C#
How to Install the Simple Notification Service on Ubuntu 10.04
How to Create an EC2 Placement Group and Use MPI
How to Install Hadoop on Eclipse on a Windows System
Cloud-Based Simulation of a Distributed Trust Algorithm
A Trust Management Service
A Cloud Service for Adaptive Data Streaming
Cloud-Based Optimal FPGA Synthesis
Exercises and Problems
Literature
Glossary
Index