Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & ArchitectureClouds are distributed technology platforms that leverage sophisticated technology innovations to provide highly scalable and resilient environments that can be remotely utilized by organizations in a multitude of powerful ways. To successfully build upon, integrate with, or even create a cloud environment requires an understanding of its common inner mechanics, architectural layers, and models, as well as an understanding of the business and economic factors that result from the adoption and real-world use of cloud-based services. In Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture, Thomas Erl, one of the world’s top-selling IT authors, teams up with cloud computing experts and researchers to break down proven and mature cloud computing technologies and practices into a series of well-defined concepts, models, technology mechanisms, and technology architectures, all from an industry-centric and vendor-neutral point of view. In doing so, the book establishes concrete, academic coverage with a focus on structure, clarity, and well-defined building blocks for mainstream cloud computing platforms and solutions. Subsequent to technology-centric coverage, the book proceeds to establish business-centric models and metrics that allow for the financial assessment of cloud-based IT resources and their comparison to those hosted on traditional IT enterprise premises. Also provided are templates and formulas for calculating SLA-related quality-of-service values and numerous explorations of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS delivery models. With more than 260 figures, 29 architectural models, and 20 mechanisms, this indispensable guide provides a comprehensive education of cloud computing essentials that will never leave your side. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Case Study Background | 13 |
FUNDAMENTAL CLOUD COMPUTING | 23 |
Copyright | |
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Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture Thomas Erl,Ricardo Puttini,Zaigham Mahmood Limited preview - 2013 |
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allocation application automated scaling listener capacity Chapter cloud architecture cloud computing cloud consumer Cloud Delivery Model cloud environments cloud provider cloud resource administrator cloud security cloud service consumer cloud storage device Cloud Usage Monitor cloud-based IT resources common configuration consumer and cloud costs data center deployed digital signature disk DTGOV dynamic encryption failover system Figure hardware hypervisor IaaS infrastructure Innovartus interface Internet Linux load balancer Logical Network Perimeter mechanism metrics migration multiple multitenancy NIST on-demand on-premise operating system organization PaaS environment pay-per-use monitor performance physical server platform processing public cloud ready-made environment redundant requirements resource pools Resource Replication resource usage runtime SaaS scalability Service Technology SLA management system SLA monitor standards STUDY EXAMPLE template Thomas Erl trust boundaries typically up-front uplink users virtual IT resources virtual processor virtual processor cores virtual RAM Virtual Server Instance virtual switch Web service workload