Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology, Security, and Architecture

Now Fully Updated: The Definitive, Vendor-Neutral Guide to Cloud Computing Success

Cloud computing offers immense opportunities to improve agility and competitiveness - as well as significant risks. To maximize value and avoid pitfalls, you need a thorough, vendor-neutral understanding of today's technologies, models, tools, and architectures. Cloud Computing, Second Edition presents up-to-date knowledge for every facet of cloud computing: from scoping projects through designing solutions, assessing providers to administering resources and managing cost.

Renowned IT author Thomas Erl and enterprise cloud expert Eric Barcelo Monroy distill proven technologies and practices into well-defined concepts, models, mechanisms, and architectures. Each is explained in ways that align with modern industry usage, to help you clearly understand and assess your options.

First, the authors show how cloud computing emerged and evolved, introducing core concepts, models, components, and security issues. Using up-to-date examples, they illuminate 50+ technology mechanisms used to enable core capabilities. Next, they document 30+ architectures that combine these mechanisms into reliable, efficient solutions. Building on this technical context, they address practical business issues, helping you optimize investments and impact, manage legal issues, and operate effectively. You'll find vendor-neutral cost and quality metrics, pricing models, insights into service level agreements, and other practical ways to promote success.

• Explore modern delivery and deployment models in depth
• Examine the roles of data centers, virtualization, containerization, and web technologies
• Learn best practices for cloud security, with detailed drill-downs on access and data
• Review standard and specialized infrastructure, from usage monitors to failover
• Discover efficient tools and mechanisms for administering cloud-based IT resources
• Walk through architecting cloud systems to deliver baseline functions and capabilities
• Plan for advanced requirements such as zero downtime, rapid provisioning, distributed data sovereignty, and virtual private cloud
• Architect for specialized environments such as edge and fog computing
• Consider cloud delivery models from both provider and consumer perspectives
• Apply cost metrics and formulae to manage usage, integration, and ownership costs
• Use SLAs to ensure availability, reliability, performance, scalability, and resiliency

This comprehensive guide is for IT and business professionals, managers, and executives; architects, developers, faculty, students, and anyone who wants to make the most of cloud computing.

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