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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Foundations Of Cloud Computing
Chapter 3 Cloud Computing Pyramid
Chapter 4 Features Of Private And Public Clouds
Chapter 5 Cloud Workload Characterization
Chapter 6 Cloud Management And Monitoring
Chapter 7 Cloud Computing And Information Security
Chapter 8 Migrating To Cloud
Chapter 9 Migrating A Complex Industry To Cloud
Chapter 10 Costing And Billing Practices In Cloud
Chapter 11 Analytics In The Cloud
Chapter 12 Future Trends In Cloud Computing
Chapter 13 A Quick Test Of Your Cloud Fundamentals Grasp
Chapter 14 Hands-On Project To Use Cloud Service Provider