This practically-focused text/reference presents a comprehensive overview of the present state of the art in Cloud Computing, and examines the potential for future Cloud and Cloud-related technologies to address specific industrial and research challenges.

Part I: General Principles.- The Rise of Cloud Computing in the Era of Emerging Networked Society.- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, How Do I Dimension My Cloud After All?.- A Taxonomy of Adaptive Resource Management Mechanisms in Virtual Machines: Recent Progress and Challenges.- Part II: Science Cloud.- Exploring Cloud Elasticity in Scientific Applications.- Clouds and Reproducibility: A Way to Go to Scientific Experiments?.- Big Data Analytics in Healthcare: A Cloud-Based Framework for Generating Insights.- Part III: Data Cloud.- Implementing MapReduce Applications in Dynamic Cloud Environments.- High Performance Graph Data Management and Mining in Cloud Environments with X10.- Part IV: Multi-Clouds.- Facilitating Cloud Federation Management via Data Interoperability.- Applying Self-* Principles in Heterogeneous Cloud Environments.- Part V: Performance and Efficiency.- Optimizing the Profit and QoS of Virtual Brokers in the Cloud.- Adaptive Resource Allocation for Load Balancing in Cloud.- Cloud-Supported Certification for Energy-Efficient Web Browsing and Services.- Datacentre Event Analysis for Knowledge Discovery in Large-Scale Cloud Environments.