The Journal of Cloud Computing (JCC) addresses a range of major topics that are of considerable importance to both research and business communities.  Cloud computing has benefited from the global growth of the Internet and in the continued exponential expansion of computing and storage capabilities.  By allowing end users to run office and programming applications on remote servers without the tedium of local installation and upgrade, end users benefit from a highly efficient computing environment that provides centralised storage, software applications, memory, processing power and speed through bandwidth.

While Cloud Computing holds such promises of providing a better computing environment, it also raises a range of important concerns related to the integrity, privacy and security of service for users and their data. The global, service oriented nature of cloud computing implies particular difficulties in achieving compliance with disparate legal and regulatory frameworks designed to ensure privacy and related safeguards.  To that end, the journal publishes high quality, peer-reviewed papers in this area, covering a wide range of balanced research topics discussing this important emerging field including the benefits, concerns, technical, legal, moral and political issues involved.

Mission

The journal aims to provide a forum for research communities to explore all issues pertaining to the rapidly growing cloud computing technologies and their multifaceted effect on business, people and society.

Scope

• Administration and Manageability
• Software as a service
• Data Services Architectures
• Dependability and Quality of Service (QoS)
• Distributed and Parallel Query Processing
• Energy Management
• Geographic Distribution
• Grid Computing
• High Availability and Reliability
• Intrusion detection and authentication in “client and cloud” systems
• Trust and secured data storage in the cloud
• Security, privacy and reliability
• Infrastructure Technologies
• Large Scale Cloud Applications
• Multi-tenancy
• Provisioning and Metering
• Resource management and Performance
• Scientific Data Management
• Security of Services
• Application development, management and deployment
• Emerging programming models and challenges
• Cloud computing as greener IT
• Service Level Agreements
• Storage Architectures
• Transactional Models