CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud computing has created a shift from the use of physical hardware and locally managed software-enabled platforms to that of virtualized cloud-hosted services. Cloud assembles large networks of virtual services including hardware (CPU storage and network) and software resources (databases message queuing systems monitoring systems and load-balancers).As Cloud continues to revolutionize applications in academia industry government and many other fields the transition to this efficient and flexible platform presents serious challenges at both theoretical and practical levels-ones that will often require new approaches and practices in all areas. Comprehensive and timely Cloud Computing: Methodology Systems and Applications summarizes progress in state-of-the-art research and offers step-by-step instruction on how to implement it.