Continued Rise of the Cloud

Prof. Zaigham Mahmood is an Associate Lecturer (Research) at the University of Derby, UK; Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education, UK; Professor Extraordinaire at North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa; and Foreign Professor at NUST Islamabad, Pakistan. His other publications include the successful Springer books Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches, Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures, and Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm.

From the book reviews: "This book, edited by Mahmood (Univ. of Derby, UK), is a collection of papers on various cloud computing topics. ... It provides a good overview, giving readers a broad exposure to the various aspects of current cloud computing technologies and challenges. ... it should be a good academic library asset. Practitioners, managers, researchers, and students of cloud computing will benefit most from this volume. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (F. H. Wild III, Choice, Vol. 52 (7), March, 2015)

• Part I: Access Control Mechanisms and Cloud Security.- Towards a GPU Cloud.- Taxonomy and Classification of Access Control Models for Cloud Environments.- Access Control as a Service in Cloud.- Part II: Standards, Brokerage Services and Certification.- Realization of Open Cloud Computing Standards, Forums and Platforms.- Role of Broker in InterCloud Environment.- Patterns of Trust.- Part III: Frameworks for ERP, Big Data and Interoperability.- A Framework for Evaluating Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems.- DIPAR: A Framework for Implementing Big Data Science in Organizations.- A Framework for Cloud Interoperability Based on Compliance and Conformance.- Part IV: Management, Governance and Capability Assessment.- Survey of Elasticity Management Solutions in Cloud Computing.- From Cloud Management to Cloud Governance.- Towards the Development of a Cloud Service Capability Assessment Framework.- Part V: Applications in Education and Other Scenarios.- Cloud Computing within Higher Education.- Cloud Computing Environment for e-Learning Services for Students with Disabilities.- Application Scenarios Suitable For Deployment in Cloud Environments.