A brief review of the Internet history reveals the fact that the Internet evolved after the
formation of primarily independent networks. Similarly, interconnected clouds, also called …

Although Cloud computing itself has many open problems, researchers in the field have
already made the leap to envision Inter‐Cloud computing. Their goal is to achieve better …

Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Third Edition provides students and IT professionals
with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. After an introduction to network …

When users flood in cloud data centers, how to efficiently manage hardware resources and
virtual machines (VMs) in a data center to both lower economical cost and ensure a high …

Cloud computing is a highly discussed topic in the technical and economic world, and many
of the big players of the software industry have entered the development of cloud services …

The efficient management of Cloud infrastructure and deployments is a topic that is currently
attracting significant interest. Complex Cloud deployments can result in an intricate layered …

Fog computing, combined with traditional cloud computing, offers an inherently distributed
infrastructure–referred to as the cloud-to-edge continuum–that can be used for the execution …

Using resources and services from multiple Clouds is a natural evolution from consuming
the ones from in-silo Clouds. Technological and administrative barriers are however slowing …

Cloud computing has become a popular paradigm for implementing scalable computing
infrastructures provided on-demand on a case-by-case basis. Self-manageable Cloud …

We show how a layered Cloud service model of software (SaaS), platform (PaaS), and
infrastructure (IaaS) leverages multiple independent Clouds by creating a federation among …