Cloud Computing

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 todays 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. Youll find vendor-neutral cost and quality metrics, pricing models, insights into service level agreements, and other practical ways to promote success.