Enterprise Cloud Computing: Technology, Architecture, Applications

Gautam Shroff

Cambridge University Press, Oct 14, 2010 - Computers - 290 pages

Cloud computing promises to revolutionize IT and business by making computing available as a utility over the internet. This book is intended primarily for practising software architects who need to assess the impact of such a transformation. It explains the evolution of the internet into a cloud computing platform, describes emerging development paradigms and technologies, and discusses how these will change the way enterprise applications should be architected for cloud deployment. Gautam Shroff provides a technical description of cloud computing technologies, covering cloud infrastructure and platform services, programming paradigms such as MapReduce, as well as 'do-it-yourself' hosted development tools. He also describes emerging technologies critical to cloud computing. The book also covers the fundamentals of enterprise computing, including a technical introduction to enterprise architecture, so it will interest programmers aspiring to become software architects and serve as a reference for a graduate-level course in software architecture or software engineering.

About the author

Gautam Shroff heads TCS' Innovation Lab in Delhi, a corporate R&D lab that conducts applied research in software architecture, natural language processing, data mining, multimedia, graphics and computer vision. Additionally he is responsible for TCS' Global Co-Innovation Network (COIN) which works with venture backed emerging technology companies to create and take to market solutions that have disruptive innovation potential. Further, as a member of TCS' Corporate Technology Board, he is part of the process of recommending directions to existing R&D efforts, spawning new R&D efforts, sponsoring external research, and proliferating the resulting technology and intellectual property across TCS' businesses.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Enterprise Cloud Computing: Technology, Architecture, Applications
• Author: Gautam Shroff
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 052176095X, 9780521760959
• Length: 290 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Enterprise Applications / General; Computers / Networking / General; Computers / Online Services; Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General