Reliability Aspect of Cloud Computing Environment

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. Vidhyalakshmireceived 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.- Chapter 2. Cloud Reliability.- Chapter 3. Reliability Metrics.- Chapter 4. Reliability Metrics Formulations.- Chapter 5. Reliability Model.- Chapter 6. Reliability Evaluation.