Editors Boutaba and da Fonseca present students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with a collection of scholarly papers and academic articles that together provide an examination of cloud computing, services, networks, and their utilization by a growing number of businesses. The editors have organized the fifteen contributions that make up the main body of their text in four parts devoted to basic concepts and enabling technologies, cloud networking and communications, cloud management, and cloud applications and services. Nelson L. S. da Fonseca is a faculty member of the State University of Campinas, Brazil. Raouf Boutaba is a faculty member of the University of Waterloo, Canada. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)