Comprehensive and timely Cloud Computing: Concepts and Technologies offers a thorough and detailed description of cloud computing concepts architectures and technologies along with guidance on the best ways to understand and implement them. It covers the multi-core architectures distributed and parallel computing models virtualization cloud developments workload and Service-Level-Agreements (SLA) in cloud workload management. Further resource management issues in cloud with regard to resource provisioning resource allocation resource mapping and resource adaptation ethical non-ethical and security issues in cloud are followed by discussion of open challenges and future directions. This book gives students a comprehensive overview of the latest technologies and guidance on cloud computing and is ideal for those studying the subject in specific modules or advanced courses. It is designed in twelve chapters followed by laboratory setups and experiments. Each chapter has multiple choice questions with answers as well as review questions and critical thinking questions. The chapters are practically-focused meaning that the information will also be relevant and useful for professionals wanting an overview of the topic. . Language: English