Table of Contents

Increasing Functional Specificity over Increasingly Commoditized Hardware. Networking and Internetworking. Distributed Systems. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Integration Technologies. J2EE for Enterprise Integration. Service-Oriented Architecture. Web Services. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Service Composition. Application Service Providers (ASPs). Grid Computing. Cloudware Basics. Cloudware Economics. Cloudware Technologies. Cloudware Vendors Solutions. Cloudware Application Development. Cloudware Operations and Management. Cloudware Security. Migrating to Cloudware. Big Data Computing Applications. Mobile Applications. Context-Aware Applications.

About the Author

Vivek Kale, M.Sc, M.Phil, has more than two decades of professional experience in software engineering, managing ERP, CRM, and extended-ERP projects, and designing, developing, and consulting on large application software, e-Business, knowledge management, and data warehousing solutions. He has worked with international consulting companies including Tata Consultancy Services, Covansys US, and i-flex solutions (acquired by Oracle Corp. in 2007). A popular guest lecturer and keynote speaker, he is the author of four books and has contributed to articles in premier Indian publications such as Economic Times, Times of India, Dataquest, and Express Computer.

Reviews

"Vivek Kale has done a wonderful job of putting together comprehensively the technologies and paradigms in the past that have shaped and evolved into today’s cloud computing solutions for businesses. He has also done a great job in defining a new cloudware paradigm for such innovative applications of the future."
—Honbo Zhou, Author of The Internet of Things in the Cloud: A Middleware Perspective"Vivek has written a comprehensive study of the technical and business impacts and implications of cloud computing."
—Michael Hugos, Author of Business in the Cloud