Dr. Vikas Kumar received his M.Sc. in Electronics from Kurukshetra University, Haryana, followed by an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Ph.D. from the same university. His Ph.D. work was in collaboration with CEERI, Pilani and he has worked in a number of ISRO sponsored projects. Dr. Kumar has designed and conducted a number of training programs for the corporate sector and has served as a trainer for various Govt of India departments. Along with six books, he has published more than 100 research papers in various national and international conferences and journals. He was the Editor of the international refereed journal Asia-Pacific Business Review from June 2007 to June 2009. He is a regular reviewer for a number of international journals and prestigious conferences. He is currently a Professor at the Sharda University, Greater Noida and a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore and University of Northern Iowa, USA.

Dr. R. Vidhyalakshmi received her Master's in Computer Science from Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, India and Ph.D. from JJT University, Rajasthan, India. Her Ph.D. work focused on determining the reliability of SaaS Applications. She is a lifetime member of ISTE. She has conducted training programs in Java, Advanced Excel and R Programming. She has published numerous research papers in Scopus indexed international journals, and national and international conference proceedings. Her areas of interest include information systems, web technologies, database management systems, data sciences, big data and analytics and cloud computing. She is currently a faculty member at the Army Institute of Management & Technology, Greater Noida, India.

Chapter 1 Cloud Computing

Ø  Introduction

·         Characteristics

·         Service models

·         Deployment Models

·         Virtualization Concepts

·         Business benefits

Ø  Cloud adoption / migration

·         Merits and demerits of cloud adoption

·         Strategy for cloud adoption

·         Cost Benefit Analysis of cloud adoption

·         On-premise vs hybrid solutions

·         Risks and challenges for cloud migration

·         Case studies for adoption and migration

Ø  Issues and challenges of cloud adoption

·         Technology Perspective

·         Cloud Provider's Perspective

·         Cloud Service Consumer's Perspective

·         Governance and Regulatory Perspective

Chapter 2 - Cloud Reliability       

Ø  Introduction to Reliability

·         MTTR

Ø  Traditional Software reliability

Ø  Reliability in other distributed computing environment

·         Reliability of virtualized environment

·         Types of cloud service failures 

·         Reliability requirement perspective

o   Infrastructure

o   Platform

o   Software

Ø  Reliability need in business

·         Business continuity

·         Risk mitigation strategy

Chapter 3 Reliability Metrics

Ø  Reliability of Service Oriented Architecture

Ø  Reliability in virtualized environment

Ø  Recommendations for reliable services

·         ISO 9126

·         NIST

·         CSMIC

Ø  Reliability metric categories

·         Standards based metrics

·         Usage based metrics

·         Expectation based metrics

Chapter 4 Reliability Metrics Formulations

Ø  Infrastructure as a Service ...