Chapter 1 – Measuring the Business Value of IT -- Chapter 2 –Measuring the Business Value of Infrastructure Migration to the Cloud.-Chapter 3 - The SaaS Payoff: Measuring the Business Value of Provisioning Software-as-a-Service Technologies Chapter 4 – Cloud service brokerage: Exploring...

The opportunities of using powerful computing resources on demand via the web are considered as a possible driver for the growth of the European economy. While the market for Social Network Sites has already experienced a consolidation, the market for Cloud Computing is still in an early stage,...

Chapter 1: Understanding Trust and Cloud Computing: An Integrated Framework for Assurance and Accountability in the Cloud -- Chapter 2: Dear Cloud, I think we have trust issues: Cloud Computing Contracts and Trust -- Chapter 3: Competing Jurisdictions – Data Privacy Across the Border --...

This open access book addresses the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management, and discusses the business implications of cloud computing adoption. Establishing the need for a new architecture for cloud...

Chapter 1 -- Towards an Architecture for Reliable Capacity Provisioning for Distributed Clouds -- Chapter 2 -- RECAP Data Acquisition and Analytics Methodology -- Chapter 3 - Application Optimisation: Workload Prediction and Autonomous Autoscaling of Distributed Cloud Applications -- Chapter 4 -...