Handbook of Cloud Computing

Springer

Editors-in-Chief

Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida and

Armando Escalante, LexisNexis, Boca Raton, Florida
 

Potential contributors:

Send an email to borko@cse.fau.edu

  
   

Springer is launching a new Handbook of Cloud Computing with the main objective to provide a variety of research and survey articles (18-36 pages) contributed by world experts in the field. Springer is committed to create a successful and unique Handbook in this field and therefore it intends to support it with a large marketing and advertising effort. Potential contributors should express their interest by sending an email to Borko Furht at borko@cse.fau.edu.

DESCRIPTION

Cloud computing has become a significant technology trend, and many experts expect that cloud computing will reshape information technology processes and the IT marketplace. With this technology, users use a variety of devices, including PCs, laptops, smartphones, and PDAs to access programs, storage, and application-development platforms over the Internet, via services offered by cloud computing providers. Advantages of the cloud computing technology include cost savings, high availability, and easy scalability.

This manuscript will include contributions of the world experts in the field of cloud computing from academia, research laboratories, and private industry. The objective of the project is to introduce the basic concepts of cloud computing architectures and systems, as well as recent and future technologies applied in cloud computing. The project will also present the systems, tools, and services of the leading providers of clod computing including Google, Yahoo, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft. Finally, a selection of cloud computing applications will be described as well.

 

SCHEDULE  
1. Contributors solicited and TOC defined   June 15 - July 31, 2009
2. Articles/entries delivered       January 15 , 2010
3. First draft of Handbook completed   February 15 , 2010
4. Handbook delivered to the Publisher  March 1, 2010
5. Handbook published  June 1, 2010

 

Links to important documents

 

 

TOPICS OF INTERESTS
(not limited to)
 
  • Clouds, grids, and distributed systems
  • Cloud computing technologies and applications
  • Cloud computing architectures
  • Cloud platforms
  • Cloud computing networks
  • Cloud storage
  • Cloud computing applications
  • Scheduling cloud workflows
  • Ontology of cloud computing
  • Client cloud computing
  • Web semantics in the clouds
  • Virtualization technologies
  • Scientific cloud computing
  • Market-oriented cloud computing
  • Granules runtime for cloud computing
  • Cloud computing for large-scale data-intensive applications
  • Enterprise knowledge clouds
  • Data management in the cloud
  • Virtualized multicore clouds
  • Types of clouds: public, hybrid, and private clouds
  • Cloud computing benefits
  • Security issues in cloud computing
  • Cloud standards
  • Cloud products, services, and solutions
  • Major cloud computing service providers: IBM, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo