Chapter 3

An Introduction to Cloud Computing

  1. What is Cloud Computing?

    2. 1.1.  Some History

  2. Basic Services and Architectures

    3. 2.1.  Cloud Computing Components

    2.2.  Cloud Computing Models and Architectures

    2.3.  Benefits of Cloud Computing

  3. Communicating with the Cloud using Web Services

    4. 3.1.  SOAP and RESTful Web Services

    3.1.1.     SOAP

    3.1.2.     REST

  4. Cloud Computing and IoT
  5. Most popular Open Cloud Computing Services for Sensor Management

    6. 5.1.  The Pachube service for Internet of Things

    5.2.  The Nimbits Data logging Cloud Server

    5.3.  ThingSpeak Internet of Things

    5.4.  The iDigi Device Cloud

    5.5.  The SensorCloud

  6. Summary