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    Developing Software for Cloud: Opportunities and Challenges for Developers
    (wiley, 2016) Chandrasekaran, K.; Marimuthu, C.
    Software as a service (SaaS) is emerging as a widely used software delivery model, which is receiving a lot of attention across industry and academia. It is not only a software delivery model; it is also a business model that allows the SaaS provider to make money and SaaS consumer to save money. It gives rise to a lot of challenges and research opportunities in SaaS development, which will be discussed in this chapter. The chapter begins with basic understanding of cloud computing and SaaS followed by a discussion of the challenges and research opportunities to address them when developing SaaS. Then it covers the popular SaaS development platforms available for public cloud and private cloud followed by multitenancy at database level to secure the user data on cloud platforms. Finally, this chapter presents the best practices to transform traditional Web applications to cloud-based multitenant SaaS applications. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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    Cloud Services and Service Providers
    (wiley, 2016) Chandrasekaran, K.; Ananth, A.
    Cloud computing provisions resources to consumers in the form of different services like software, infrastructure, platform, and more. Many companies have come forward to offer cloud services. This chapter provides an overview of cloud services offered by various major providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, EMC, Salesforce.com and IBM. They provide various tools and services in order to give cloud support for their customers. Each section briefly describes cloud services offered by a provider and their features, and identifies tools and technologies adopted by the company in order to provide services to the users. This chapter helps readers to distinguish among different services provided by various companies and make appropriate choices to suit their requirements. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.