Cloud Computing, A Practical Approach

摘要: "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 Cloud Computing Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach provides a comprehensive look at emerging paradigm Internet-based enterprise applications and services. This accessible book offers broad introduction computing, reviews variety currently available solutions, discusses cost savings organizational operational benefits. You'll find details on essential topics, such as hardware, platforms, standards, migration, security, storage. also learn what other organizations are doing where they're headed with computing. If company considering move from traditional network infrastructure cutting-edge solution, this strategic guide. Cloud covers: Costs, benefits, security issues, regulatory concerns, limitations Service providers, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, IBM, EMC/VMware, Salesforce.com, others Hardware, infrastructure, clients, applications, services, storage Standards, HTTP, HTML, DHTML, XMPP, SSL, OpenID Web REST, SOAP, JSON Platform Service (PaaS), Software (SaaS), plus Services (S+S) Custom application development environments, frameworks, strategies, solutions Local clouds, thin virtualization Migration, best practices, standards Table contents Section One: Getting Started; Chapter 1. The History Future Computing; 2. Computing Basics; 3. Your Organization 4. Titans (Google, Yahoo); 5. Business Case for going (w/ case study); Section Two: Technology; 6. Hardware Infrastructure; 7. Accessing (basics APIs); 8. Storage; 9. Emerging Standards; Three: Work; 10. Service; 11. Plus Services; 12. Developing Applications; 13. Local Clouds Thin Clients; 14. Migrating Cloud; Appendix A. Best Practices; B. List movers shakers Informational Resources