Cloud Computing, A Practical Approach

Acknowledgments

We were fortunate enough to be able to talk with a lot of very talented people while preparing this book for you. We spoke not only to people who implemented their own cloud solutions, but also those who help develop cloud solutions, as well as officers of several major cloud solution providers.

First, we want to thank Darren Boeck of McNeilus Steel. He told us how he was able to build a virtualized environment for the clients on his network, allowing us to summarize his experiences for you.

We also had the pleasure of speaking again with John Engates, CTO of Rackspace Hosting. He talked with us about Rackspace’s cloud computing services and explained their vision of how they see cloud computing as it exists today and how it ...