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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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Application as a Service
Business Applications
Cloud Storage
Infrastructure as a Service
Mobile Cloud
Platform as a Service
Security

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Computer scientists examine a variety of issues and factors that may affect an organization considering using cloud computing. They cover cloud fundamentals and surveys, cloud adoption issues and cases, current cloud developments, proofs-of-concept and demonstrations, and security. The topics include the role of cloud computing adoption in global business, a conceptual model for cloud computing adoption by small and medium companies in Australia, insights from a multidisciplinary integration project on cloud services for healthcare, genome sequencing in the cloud, and an enterprise security framework for enterprise cloud data centers. The information might interest computer scientists, information scientists, and others working in cloud computing and managers of businesses.

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Prof. Victor Chang is currently a Professor of Business Analytics at Aston Business School, Aston University, UK. He was a Professor of Data Science and Information Systems at SCEDT, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK, between September 2019 and May 2022. He was a Senior Associate Professor, Director of Ph.D. (June 2016- May 2018) and Director of MRes (Sep 2017 - Feb 2019) at International Business School Suzhou (IBSS), Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, China, between June 2016 and August 2019. He was also a very active and contributing key member at Research Institute of Big Data Analytics (RIBDA), XJTLU. He was an Honorary Associate Professor at University of Liverpool. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, UK, between Sep 2012 and May 2016. Within 4 years, he completed Ph.D. (CS, Southampton) and PGCert (Higher Education, Fellow, Greenwich) while working for several projects at the same time. Before becoming an academic, he has achieved 97% on average in 27 IT certifications. He won a European Award on Cloud Migration in 2011, IEEE Outstanding Service Award in 2015, best papers in 2012, 2015 and 2018, the 2016 European special award and Outstanding Young Scientist 2017. He is a visiting scholar/Ph.D. examiner at several universities, an Editor-in-Chief of IJOCI & OJBD journals, former Editor of FGCS, Associate Editor of IEEE TII, JGIM, IJBSR, IJEBM & Cyber Security & Apps. He's also an Editor of Information Fusion, IDD and Scientific Reports, a founding chair of two international workshops and founding Conference Chair of IoTBDS and COMPLEXIS since Year 2016. He is the founding Conference Chair for FEMIB since Year 2019. He published 3 books as sole authors and the editor of 2 books on Cloud Computing and related technologies. He gave 30 keynotes at international conferences. He is widely regarded as one of the most active and influential young scientists and experts in IoT/Data Science/Cloud/security/AI/IS, as he has experience developing 10 different services for multiple disciplines.

Robert J. Walters worked for almost 15 years in commercial banking before leaving to study Mathematics with Computer Science at University of Southampton. After completing his degree, he worked for several years as a software developer before returning to Southampton in 1996. Since then, he has completed his PhD in 2003 and is currently employed as a lecturer in Electronics and Computer Science at University of Southampton.

Gary Wills graduated from the University of Southampton with an Honours degree in Electromechanical Engineering and then a PhD in Industrial Hypermedia systems. He is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institute of Engineering Technology, and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Educational Academy. He is also an adjunct professor at the Cape Peninsular University of Technology and a research professor at RLabs. Gary’s main research projects revolve around providing people with relevant information in order for them to carry out a task. Gary’s research projects focus on System Engineering and applications for industry, medicine and education.

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