The Encyclopedia on Cloud Computing will provide IT professional, educators, researchers and students a comprehensive compendium of cloud computing knowledge – concepts, principles, architecture, technology, security, privacy and regulatory compliance, applications, adoption, business, social, and legal aspects. This unique publication will address questions related to technological trends and developments, research opportunities, best practices, standards, and cloud adoption that stakeholders might have in the context of development, operation, management and use of clouds. It will also examine cloud computing’s impact now and in the future. The Encyclopedia on Cloud Computing will be published by a highly reputed international publisher and edited by us.
We invite expressions of interest from authors from academia and industry willing to contribute a chapter on any one of the following remaining topics of the new Encyclopedia on Cloud Computing.
- Cloud Services in the Market: An Overview
- Cloud Services by Google
- Cloud Services by Microsoft
- Cloud Services by Others
- Cloud-Based Development Environments (PaaS)
- Personal Clouds
- Cloud Architecture (including) Cloud Reference Framework
- Server Virtualization
- Storage Virtualization
- I/O and Network Virtualization
- Virtualization Software: An Overview and Comparison
- Private Clouds: Design and Development
- Cloud Networks
- Cloud Aggregation (and brokering)
- Cloud Standards
- Cloud Portability
- Cloud Security: Issues and Concerns
- Ensuring Privacy in Clouds
- Fault-Tolerant Clouds
- Cloud Simulation and Testbed
- Enterprise Cloud Computing Strategy and Policy
- Cloud Governance
- Cloud Data Management
- Cloud Migration (including hybrid clouds)
- Identity and Access Management
- IAM Standards: OAuth
- Cloud Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Legal Aspects of Cloud (cloud regulations)
- Managing Cloud Failures (Business Continuity, Data recovery)
- Cloud Auditing and Certification
- Cloud Economics
- Business Applications of Clouds
- Healthcare Applications of Clouds
- Scientific Applications of Clouds
- Personal Applications of Clouds
- High Performance, Large User Applications in Clouds
- Big Data and Clouds
- Memory-Intensive Applications in Clouds
- Impact of Cloud on IT Professionals and IT Industry
- Cloud Education and Training (includes cloud skill set)
Each chapter (about 15 book pages) should provide a comprehensive overview on the topic covering all related aspects and be tutorial in nature as it is targeted at a range of audience. A chapter can be co-authored.
If you are interested to contribute a chapter to this quality publication on cloud computing, please send us expressions of interest (to CloudComputingEncyclopedia@gmail.com) indicating your topic (chosen from the list above) and providing a brief summary, an outline of the chapter coverage, and a short biography of the author(s) by 25th May 2013. You may also please pass on this Call to those who might be interested to contribute a chapter. If you have any queries please let us know.
Best regards,
San Murugesan, BRITE Professional Services and University of Western Sydney, Australia. san1@internode.net
Irena Bojanova, University of Maryland University College, USA. ibojanova@umuc.edu
Editors, Encyclopedia on Cloud Computing. CloudComputingEncyclopedia@gmail.com
*Disclaimer: This is our independent scholarly work. It is not connected to our other cloud computing related activities with professional associations/societies or other entities.