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Edlund, Aake
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   Real-time analytics: techniques to analyze and visualize streaming data
Ellis B., Wiley Publishing, Indianapolis, IN, 2014. 432 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-118837-91-7)

Analyzing and acting on streaming data is a challenging task, even compared to batch processing big data, with its ecosystem of tools. The book starts with an overview of the evolution of data streaming tools and their motivation, givi...

Jan 11 2016  
   Apache Hadoop YARN: moving beyond MapReduce and batch processing with Apache Hadoop 2
Murthy A., Vavilapalli V., Eadline D., Niemiec J., Markham J., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2014. 400 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-321934-50-5)

MapReduce from Apache Hadoop 1 (MapReduce MRv1) has in the next-generation MapReduce (MRv2, or YARN) been divided into two components, where the cluster resource management capabilities have become YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator...

May 15 2015  
  Web-scale data management for the cloud
Lehner W., Sattler K., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2013. 208 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-461468-55-4)

When analyzing big datasets, which these days can amount to petabytes of data, scientists have to address a number of new technical and financial challenges. Going from a small number of machines to a fully distributed environment call...

Sep 18 2013  
  Towards an architecture for deploying elastic services in the cloud
Kirschnick J., Alcaraz Calero J., Goldsack P., Farrell A., Guijarro J., Loughran S., Edwards N., Wilcock L. Software--Practice & Experience 42(4): 395-408, 2012.  Type: Article

Kirschnick et al. propose a peer-to-peer-based architecture for scalable and robust deployment of elastic services in the cloud. As described in this paper, most of today’s solutions focus on static deployment models based on...

Oct 24 2012  
  Private cloud computing: consolidation, virtualization, and service-oriented infrastructure
Smoot S., Tan N., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2011. 424 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-123849-19-9), Reviews: (1 of 2)

The technologies needed to implement and further develop private cloud services for the next-generation infrastructure are the focus of this book. This is a crucial topic and the authors highlight--and delve deeply into the de...

Apr 5 2012  
  Building applications in the cloud: concepts, patterns, and projects
Moyer C., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2011. 352 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-321720-20-7)

Written by a cloud computing developer, this book gives a good overview of the subject, and includes a number of hands-on chapters. Moyer describes concepts, designs, and actual projects in a very pedagogical and interesting way, helpi...

Jul 18 2011  
  Handbook of cloud computing
Furht B., Escalante A., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2010. 634 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-441965-23-3)

Is cloud computing the new paradigm shift in computing, as has been stated since the advent of Amazon’s launch of its cloud services? After reading this book, there should be no doubt. Cloud computing affects all areas where ...

May 23 2011  
  Open Cirrus: a global cloud computing testbed
Avetisyan A., Campbell R., Gupta I., Heath M., Ko S., Ganger G., Kozuch M., O’Hallaron D., Kunze M., Kwan T., Lai K., Lyons M., Milojicic D., Lee H., Soh Y., Ming N., Luke J., Namgoong H. Computer 43(4): 35-43, 2010.  Type: Article

Avetisyan et al. describe Open Cirrus, a cloud computing testbed, demonstrating the nature of federated distributed data centers. With a group of partners from academic research and industry (for example, Intel, Yahoo!, and HP), the te...

Jul 28 2010  
  Cloud security and privacy: an enterprise perspective on risks and compliance
Mather T., Kumaraswamy S., Latif S., O’Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2009. 336 pp.  Type: Book (9780596802769), Reviews: (3 of 3)

Security concerns are often mentioned as a major challenge for the wider adoption of cloud computing, especially among established enterprises....

Mar 18 2010  
 
 
 
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