How Clouds Hold IT Together: Integrating Architecture with Cloud Deployment

by Marvin Waschke

Overview

Gain the practical knowledge you need to plan, design, deploy, and manage mixed cloud and on-premises IT management systems. Drawing on his experience as senior principal software architect at CA Technologies, Marvin Waschke lays out the nuts and bolts of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)—the 5-volume bible of standard IT service management practices that is the single most important tool for aligning IT services with business needs.

Many enterprise IT management applications, and the ways they are integrated, come directly from ITIL service management requirements. Types of integration include integrated reporting and dashboards, event-driven integration, device integration, and application data integration. Enterprise integration depends critically on high performance, scalability, and flexibility. Failure to integrate applications to service management requirements results in such wryly anticipated spectacles as the annual crash of the websites of Super Bowl advertisers such as Coca-Cola and Acura.

Waschke weighs in on the debate between those who advocate integrating "best-of-breed" applications and those who favor a pre-integrated set of applications from a single vendor. He also rates the strengths and weaknesses of the major architectural patterns—central relational databases, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and enterprise data buses—for IT integration of service management applications. He examines the modifications to traditional service management that are required by virtualized systems of datacenter management and application design.

Clouds present special problems for integration. How Clouds Hold IT Together details solutions for integration problems in private, community, and public clouds—especially problems with multi-tenant SaaS applications. Most enterprises are migrating to the cloud gradually rather than at one go. The transitional phase of mixed cloud and on-premises applications presents thorny problems for IT management. Waschke shows the reader how to normalize the performance and capacity measurements of concurrent traditional and cloud resources.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430261674
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	11/13/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	373
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Marvin Waschke was a senior principal software architect at CA Technologies. His career has spanned the mainframe to the cloud. He has coded, designed, and managed the development of many systems, ranging through accounting, cell tower management, enterprise service desks, configuration management, and network management.Waschke represented CA Technologies on the DMTF Cloud Management Working Group, DMTF Open Virtualization Format Working Group, DMTF Common Information Model REST Interface Working Group, OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee, DMTF Cloud Auditing Data Federation Working Group (observer), DMTF Configuration Database Federation Working Group, W3C Service Modeling Language Working Group, and OASIS OData Technical Committee (observer). On his retirement from CA, he was honored as a DMTF Fellow for his distinguished past and continuing significant contributions to the DMTF and continues his work with the DMTF on cloud standards. He was the editor-in-chief of the CA Technology Exchange (an online technical journal) and the author of Cloud Standards: Agreements That Hold Together Clouds.

Table of Contents

PART I. Services, Virtualization, Handhelds, and Clouds

Chapter 1. The Imperative: IT Integration

Chapter 2. The Merger: Enterprise Business and IT Management

Chapter 3. The Bridge: Service Management

Chapter 4. The Buzz: Handhelds in the Workplace

Chapter 5. The Hard Part: Clouds

PART II. Service Management

Chapter 6. The Infrastructure: ITIL and Service Management

Chapter 7. The Superstructure: Service Management Architecture

PART III. Enterprise Integration

Chapter 8. The Harder They Fall: Integration in the Enterprise

Chapter 9. The Contenders: Enterprise Integration Architectural Patterns

PART IV. Virtualization

Chapter 10. Not in Kansas: Virtualization Challenges

Chapter 11. Splendid Isolation: Virtual Architecture Patterns

PART V. Clouds

Chapter 12. Slipping the Surly Bonds: Cloud Architecture Patterns

Chapter 13. Tricky Business: Cloud Integration Patterns

Chapter 14. Fish nor Fowl: Mixed Architectures

Chapter 15. Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

This book not only reveals cloud to be well established, but also helps to anchor it by relating it to architecture as well as to service management, the two planks for balanced management of any technology. … The book is very good at defining everything as it goes along in very short clear statements, and the illustrations are both apt and clear. … a valuable addition to the library of IT professionals considering or starting to engage in cloud implementation.” (Charles Chang, bcs.org, January, 2016)

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