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Handbook of Cloud Computing

Editors-in Chief

Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

Armando Escalante, LexisNexis, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

ADVISORY BOARD

Kemal Delic

Hewlett Packard, USA

Mac Devine

IBM Corporation, USA

Wen-Syan Li

SAP, China

Geng Lin

IBM Alliance, Cisco Systems

Srideep Pallickara

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Thomas Phan

Microsoft, USA

S. Masoud Sadjadi

Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

Mladen Vouk

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Yelena Yesha

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

CONTRIBUTORS

Ankur Agarwal

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

Paolo Bientinesi

RWTH Aachen University Aices

Norman Bobroff

IBM T.J. Watson, New York, USA

Juan A. Caceres

Telefónica I&D Labs, Madrid, Spain

David Chapman

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA

Jinjun Chen

Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Lei Chen

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Wen-Syan Li, SAP, China

Karim Chine

Cloud Era Ltd, Cambridge, United Kindom

David Cohen

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton and Cambridge, MA, USA

Vincenzo D. Cunsolo

University of Messina, Italy

Kemal Delic

Hewlett Packard, USA

Mac Devine

IBM Corporation

Salvatore Distefano

University of Messina, Italy

Patrick Dreher

Renaissance Computing Institute, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Kathleen Ericson

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Michael Fernandus Simalango

Ajou University, South Korea

Liana Fong

IBM T.J. Watson, New York, USA

Ian Foster

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, and The University of Chicago, IL, USA

Marc E. Frincu

Research Institute e-Austria, Romania

Borko Furht

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

Giulio Giunta

University of Napoli Parthenope, Napoli, Italy,

Milt Halem

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA

Mohammad Mehedi Hassan

Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Nathan Henehan

NACS Solutions, FL, USA

Juanjo Hierro

Telefónica I&D Labs, Madrid, Spain

Eui-Nam Huh

Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Hai Jin

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Karuna P. Joshi

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA

Burton S. Kaliski Jr.

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton and Cambridge, MA, USA

Hari Kalva

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

Guiliano Laccetti

University of Napoli, Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Rui Li

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Wen-Syan Li, SAP, China

Wen-Syan Li

SAP, China

Gen Lin

IBM Alliance, Cisco Systems

Xiao Liu

Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Yanbin Liu

IBM T.J. Watson, New York, USA

Luis Rodero-Merino

INRIA-ENS, Lyon, France

Tony Middleton

LexisNexis, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

Raffaele Montella

University of Napoli Parthenope, Napoli, Italy

Jeffrey Napper

VU University, Amsterdam, The Nertherlands

Phuong Nguyen

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA

Jeffrey M. Nick

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton and Cambridge, MA, USA

Sangyoon Oh

Ajou University, South Korea

Shrideep Pallickara

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Abhijit Pandya

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

Manish Parashar

Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

Aaron Peeler

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Thomas Phan

Microsoft, USA

Antonio Piliafito

University of Messina, Italy

Jeff Riley

Hewlett Packard, USA

Ivan Rodero

Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

Luis Rodero-Merino

Inria-Ens, Lyon, France

S. Masoud Sadjadi

Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

Marco Scarpa

University of Messina, Italy

Eric Sills

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Vivek Somashekarappa

Armellini Inc., FL, USA

Biao Song

Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Luis M. Vaquero

Telefónica I&D Labs, Madrid, Spain

Mladen Vouk

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

David Villegas

Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

Yun Yang

Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Yaacov Yesha

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA

Yelena Yesha

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA

Dong Yuan

Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Gaofeng Zhang

Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Jinzy Zhu

IBM Cloud Labs HiPODs, China