Book description
Practically unlimited storage, instant scalability, zero-downtime upgrades, low start-up costs, plus pay-only-for-what-you-use without sacrificing security or performance are all benefits of cloud computing. But how do you make it work in your enterprise? What should you move to the cloud? How? And when?
The Cloud at Your Service answers these questions and more. Written for IT pros at all levels, this book finds the sweet spot between rapidly changing details and hand-waving hype. It shows you practical ways to work with current services like Amazon's EC2 and S3. You'll also learn the pros and cons of private clouds, the truth about cloud data security, and how to use the cloud for high scale applications.
About the Technology
About the Book
What's Inside
- How to build scalable and reliable applications
- The state of the art in technology, vendors, practices
- What to keep in-house and what to offload
- How to migrate existing IT to the cloud
- How to build secure applications and data centers
About the Reader
About the Authors
A PhD in computer science, Jothy Rosenberg is a former Duke professor, author of three previous books, and serial entrepreneur involved in the cloud movement from its infancy. A technology entrepreneur with a PhD in nuclear physics from MIT, Arthur Mateos has brought to market pioneering SaaS products built on the cloud.
Quotes
Cuts through the complexity to just what's needed.
- Anne Thomas Manes, From the Foreword
"A definitive source."
- Orhan Alkan, Sun Microsystems
"Approachable coverage of a key emerging technology."
- Chad Davis, Author of Struts 2 in Action
"Removes 'cloudiness' from the cloud."
- Shawn Henry, CloudSwitch, Inc.
"Refreshing... without fluff."
- Kunal Mittal, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- Chapter 1. What is cloud computing?
- Chapter 2. Understanding cloud computing classifications
- Chapter 3. The business case for cloud computing
- Chapter 4. Security and the private cloud
- Chapter 5. Designing and architecting for cloud scale
- Chapter 6. Achieving high reliability at cloud scale
- Chapter 7. Testing, deployment, and operations in the cloud
- Chapter 8. Practical considerations
- Chapter 9. Cloud 9: the future of the cloud
- Appendix A. Information security refresher
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: The Cloud at Your Service
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2010
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781935182528
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