Borko Furht & Armando Escalante 
Handbook of Cloud Computing [PDF ebook] 

Technologies and Systems.- Cloud Computing Fundamentals.- Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications.- Key Enabling Technologies for Virtual Private Clouds.- The Role of Networks in Cloud Computing.- Data-Intensive Technologies for Cloud Computing.- Survey of Storage and Fault Tolerance Strategies Used in Cloud Computing.- Scheduling Service Oriented Workflows Inside Clouds Using an Adaptive Agent Based Approach.- The Role of Grid Computing Technologies in Cloud Computing.- Cloudweaver: Adaptive and Data-Driven Workload Manager for Generic Clouds.- Architectures.- Enterprise Knowledge Clouds: Architecture and Technologies.- Integration of High-Performance Computing into Cloud Computing Services.- Vertical Load Distribution for Cloud Computing via Multiple Implementation Options.- Swin De W-C: A Peer-to-Peer Based Cloud Workflow System.- Services.- Cloud Types and Services.- Service Scalability Over the Cloud.- Scientific Services on the Cloud.- A Novel Market-Oriented Dynamic Collaborative Cloud Service Platform.- Applications.- Enterprise Knowledge Clouds: Applications and Solutions.- Open Science in the Cloud: Towards a Universal Platform for Scientific and Statistical Computing.- Multidimensional Environmental Data Resource Brokering on Computational Grids and Scientific Clouds.- HPC on Competitive Cloud Resources.- Scientific Data Management in the Cloud: A Survey of Technologies, Approaches and Challenges.- Feasibility Study and Experience on Using Cloud Infrastructure and Platform for Scientific Computing.- A Cloud Computing Based Patient Centric Medical Information System.- Cloud@Home: A New Enhanced Computing Paradigm.- Using Hybrid Grid/Cloud Computing Technologies for Environmental Data Elastic Storage, Processing, and Provisioning.

Borko Furht is a professor and chairman of the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. Professor Furht received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Belgrade. His current research is in multimedia systems, video coding and compression, 3D video and image systems, video databases, wireless multimedia, and Internet computing. He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer). He has received several technical and publishing awards, and has consulted for many high-tech companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, General Electric, JPL, NASA, Honeywell, and RCA, and has been an expert witness for Cisco and Qualcomm. He has given many invited talks, keynote lectures, seminars, and tutorials, and served on the Board of Directors of several high-tech companies. 
Armando J. Escalante is SVP & Chief Technology Officer of Risk Solutions for the Lexis Nexis Group, a division of Reed Elsevier. In this position, Escalante is responsible for technology development, information systems and operations. Previously, Escalante was Chief Operating Officer for Seisint, a privately owned, Boca based company, which was purchased by Lexis Nexis in 2004. In this position, he was responsible for Technology, Development and Operations. Prior to 2001, Escalante served as Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Diveo Broadband Networks where he led world class Data Centers located in the U.S. and Latin America. Before Diveo Broadband Networks, Escalante was VP for one of the fastest growing divisions of Vignette Corporation, an e Business software leader. Escalante earned his bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering at the USB in Caracas, Venezuela and a master’s degree in computer science from Steven Institute of Technology as well as a master’s in business administration from West Coast University.