(Ebook) Cloud Computing Technologies for Smart Agriculture and Healthcare by Urmila Shrawankar, Latesh Malik, Sandhya Arora, (eds) ISBN 9781032068039, 1032068035

(Ebook) Cloud Computing Technologies for Smart Agriculture and Healthcare by Urmila Shrawankar, Latesh Malik, Sandhya Arora, (eds) ISBN 9781032068039, 1032068035

Cloud is the advanced and fast-growing technology in the current era. The computing paradigm has changed drastically. It has given a new insight to see the computing world with the new characteristics like on-demand, virtualization, scalability and many more. Utility Computing, Virtualization and Service-Oriented Architecture (SoA) are the key characteristics of cloud computing. Cloud provides distinct IT services over the web as a pay-as-you-go and on-demand basis. Cloud Computing Technologies for Smart Agriculture and Healthcare aims to cover cloud management and framework. It focuses how cloud computing framework can be integrated with applications based on Agriculture, Healthcare.Features:-- Contains a systematic overview of the state-of-the-art, basic theories, challenges, implementation, and case studies on Cloud Technology.-- Discussion of recent research results and future advancement in Virtualization Technology.-- Focuses on core theories, architectures, and technologies necessary to develop and understand the computing models and its applications.-- Includes a wide range of examples that uses cloud technology for increasing farm profitability and sustainable production.-- Presents farming with cloud technology, that allows to aggregate, analyze, and share data across farms and the world.-- Includes cloud-based electronic health records with privacy and security.-- Offers suitable IT solutions to the global issues in the domain of agriculture and health care for society.     This reference book is aimed at under-graduate and post-graduate programs. It will also help research scholars in their research work. The book also equips readers like scientists, business innovators, entrepreneurs, professionals and practitioners.