Delivery and Adoption of Cloud Computing Services in Contemporary Organizations - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1466682108 ISBN 13: 9781466682108

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2015

Synopsis

The ubiquity of technology has not only brought the need for computer knowledge to every aspect of the modern business world; it has also increased our need to safely store the data we are now creating at a rate never experienced before. Delivery and Adoption of Cloud Computing Services in Contemporary Organizations brings together the best practices for storing massive amounts of data. Highlighting ways cloud services can work effectively in production and in real time, this book is an essential reference source for professionals and academics of various disciplines, such as computer science, consulting, information technology, information and communication sciences, healthcare, and finance.

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About the Author

Victor Chang is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at Leeds Beckett University and a Visiting Researcher at University of Southampton. He has been a technical lead in web applications, web services, database, grid, cloud, storage/backup, bioinformatics, financial computing which subsequently have become his research interests. Victor has also successfully delivered many IT projects in Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, and the UK since 1998. Victor is experienced in a number of different IT subjects and has 27 certifications with 97% on average. He completed PGCert (Higher Education, University Greenwich, 2012) and PhD (C.S, University of Southampton, 2013) within four years part-time while working full-time, whereby the distance between his work and research is about 400 miles away. He has over 70 peer-reviewed published papers, including several high-quality journals up-to-date. Victor received BSc and BEng from University of Sydney in 2000, research MPhil from University of Cambridge in 2002. He won £20,000 funding in 2001 and £81,000 funding in 2009. He was involved in part of the £6.5 million project in 2004, part of the £5.6 million project in 2006 and part of a £300,000 project in 2013. Victor is a winner in 2011 European Identity Award in On Premise to Cloud Migration. He was selected to present his research in the House of Commons, UK, in 2011. He won the best student paper in CLOSER 2012. Victor has demonstrated Storage as a Service, Health Informatics as a Service, Financial Software as a Service, Education as a Service, Big Data Processing as a Service, Integration as a Service, Security as a Service, Social Network as a Service and Data Visualization as a Service (Weather Science) in Cloud Computing and Big Data services in both of his practitioner and academic experience. His proposed frameworks have been adopted by numerous organizations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1466682108
• ISBN 13: 9781466682108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Chang Victor, Walters Robert John, Wills Gary