Cloud Computing : Concepts and Practices

This book provides readers with an overview of Cloud Computing, starting with historical background on mainframe computers and early networking protocols, leading to current concerns such as hardware and systems security, performance, emerging areas of IoT, Edge Computing etc. Readers will benefit from the in-depth discussion of cloud computing usage and the underlying architecture, with focus on best practices for using a dynamic cloud infrastructure, cloud operations management and cloud security. The authors explain carefully the "why's and how's" of Cloud Computing, so engineers will find this book and invaluable introduction to the topic. Provides practical guidance for software developers engaged in migrating in-house applications to Public Cloud; Describes for IT managers how to improve their Cloud Computing infrastructures; Includes coverage of security concerns with Cloud operating models; Uses several case studies to illustrate the "why's and how's" of migrating to the Cloud Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix Introduction (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 1-10 Foundations of Cloud Computing (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 11-40 Cloud Computing Pyramid (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 41-50 Features of Private and Public Clouds (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 51-60 Cloud Workload Characterization (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 61-83 Cloud Management and Monitoring (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 85-92 Cloud Computing and Information Security (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 93-113 Migrating to Cloud (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 115-121 Migrating a Complex Industry to Cloud (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 123-139 Costing and Billing Practices in Cloud (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 141-158 Analytics in the Cloud (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 159-169 Future Trends in Cloud Computing (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 171-183 A Quick Test of Your Cloud Fundamentals Grasp (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 185-194 Hands-On Project to Use Cloud Service Provider (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt)....Pages 195-239 Back Matter ....Pages 241-269 "This book provides readers with an overview of Cloud Computing, starting with historical background on mainframe computers and early networking protocols, leading to current concerns such as hardware and systems security, performance, emerging areas of IoT, Edge Computing etc. Readers will benefit from the in-depth discussion of cloud computing usage and the underlying architecture, with focus on best practices for using a dynamic cloud infrastructure, cloud operations management and cloud security. The authors explain carefully the "why's and how's" of Cloud Computing, so engineers will find this book and invaluable introduction to the topic."-- Back cover