Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach

by Toby Velte, Anthony Velte, Robert C. Elsenpeter

Overview

"The promise of cloud computing is here. These pages provide the 'eyes wide open' insights you need to transform your business." --Christopher Crowhurst, Vice President, Strategic Technology, Thomson Reuters

A Down-to-Earth Guide to Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach provides a comprehensive look at the emerging paradigm of Internet-based enterprise applications and services. This accessible book offers a broad introduction to cloud computing, reviews a wide variety of currently available solutions, and discusses the cost savings and organizational and operational benefits. You'll find details on essential topics, such as hardware, platforms, standards, migration, security, and storage. You'll also learn what other organizations are doing and where they're headed with cloud computing. If your company is considering the move from a traditional network infrastructure to a cutting-edge cloud solution, you need this strategic guide.

Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach covers:

• Costs, benefits, security issues, regulatory concerns, and limitations
• Service providers, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, IBM, EMC/VMware, Salesforce.com, and others
• Hardware, infrastructure, clients, platforms, applications, services, and storage
• Standards, including HTTP, HTML, DHTML, XMPP, SSL, and OpenID
• Web services, such as REST, SOAP, and JSON
• Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Software plus Services (S+S)
• Custom application development environments, frameworks, strategies, and solutions
• Local clouds, thin clients, and virtualization
• Migration, best practices, and emerging standards

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071626958
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	10/22/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Toby J. Velte, Ph.D. is an international best-selling author of business technology articles and books. He is co-founder of Velte Publishing, Inc. and the co-author of more than a dozen books published by McGraw-Hill. He is co-author of Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line and Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach. V. Dr. Velte is currently part of Microsoft’s North Central practice focused on helping thriving companies with their technology-based initiatives

Anthony T. Velte, CISSP, CISA (Lake Elmo, MN) is cofounder of Velte Publishing, Inc., and coauthor of several books on Cisco technologies.

Robert C. Elsenpeter is an author, Web content writer, and award-winning journalist.

Table of Contents

Part One: Getting Started
Chapter 1: The History and Future of Cloud Computing
Chapter 2: Cloud Computing Basics
Chapter 3: Your Organization and Cloud Computing
Chapter 4:Cloud Computing with the Titans (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo)
Chapter 5: The Business Case for going Cloud (w/ case study)
Section Two: Cloud Computing Technology
Chapter 6: Hardware and Infrastructure
Chapter 7: Accessing the Cloud (basics to APIs)
Chapter 8: Cloud Storage
Chapter 9: Emerging Standards
Section Three: Cloud Computing at Work
Chapter 10: Software as a Service
Chapter 11: Software Plus Services
Chapter 12: Developing Applications
Chapter 13: Local Clouds and Thin Clients
Chapter 14: Migrating to the Cloud
Appendix A: Best Practices
Appendix B: List of Cloud Computing movers and shakers and Informational Resources