This book captures the state of the art in cloud technologies infrastructures and service
delivery and deployment models. The work provides guidance and case studies on the development
of cloud-based services and infrastructures from an international selection of expert
researchers and practitioners. Features: presents a focus on security and access control
mechanisms for cloud environments analyses standards and brokerage services and investigates
the role of certification for cloud adoption evaluates cloud ERP suggests a framework for
implementing big data science and proposes an approach for cloud interoperability reviews
existing elasticity management solutions discusses the relationship between cloud management
and governance and describes the development of a cloud service capability assessment model
examines cloud applications in higher education including the use of knowledge-as-a-service in
the provision of education and cloud-based e-learning for students with disabilities.
