Cloud Computing

The primary purpose of this book is to capture the state-of-the-artin Cloud Computing technologies and applications. The book willalso aim to identify potential research directions and technologiesthat will facilitate creation a global market-place of cloudcomputing services supporting scientific, industrial, business, andconsumer applications. We expect the book to serve as a referencefor larger audience such as systems architects, practitioners, developers, new researchers and graduate level students. This areaof research is relatively recent, and as such has no existingreference book that addresses it. This book will be a timely contribution to a field that isgaining considerable research interest, momentum, and is expectedto be of increasing interest to commercial developers. The book istargeted for professional computer science developers and graduatestudents especially at Masters level. As Cloud Computing isrecognized as one of the top five emerging technologies that willhave a major impact on the quality of science and society over thenext 20 years, its knowledge will help position our readers at theforefront of the field.