Cloud computing has become increasingly popular in recent years, evolving into a
computing paradigm that is both cost-effective and efficient. It has the potential to be one of …

Many business cases exploiting big data have been realised in recent years; Twitter,
LinkedIn, and Facebook are examples of companies in the social networking domain. Other …

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 …

With the rapid growth of emerging applications like social network analysis, semantic Web
analysis and bioinformatics network analysis, a variety of data to be processed continues to …

Today, almost everyone is connected to the Internet and uses different Cloud solutions to
store, deliver and process data. Cloud computing assembles large networks of virtualized …

Cloud computing—accessing computing resources over the Internet—is rapidly changing
the landscape of information technology. Its primary benefits compared to on-premise …

Cloud management platforms may manage the resources provided by the infrastructure as a
service (IaaS) cloud. With the rapid development of open-source cloud platforms, they have …

The inherent complexity of modern cloud infrastructures has created the need for innovative
monitoring approaches, as state-of-the-art solutions used for other large-scale environments …

The evolution toward grid and cloud computing as observed for over a decennium illustrates
the crucial role played by (optical) networks in supporting today's applications. In this paper …

With the advent of cloud computing and the need to satisfy growing customers resource
demands, cloud providers now operate increasing amounts of large data centers. In order to …