Book details:
Title: Cloud Computing Explained
Author: John Rhoton
Publisher: Recursive Press
Release date: 3 May 2010
Paperback: 508 pages
Edition: 2nd
Language English
ISBN-10: 0956355609
ISBN-13: 978-0956355607
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 2.6 cm
Weight: 706 g
Cloud Computing Explained provides an overview of Cloud Computing in an enterprise environment. There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm around cloud-based solutions and services as well as the cost-savings and flexibility that they can provide. It is imperative that all senior technologists have a solid understanding of the ramifications of cloud computing since its impact is likely to permeate the entire IT landscape. However, it is not trivial to introduce a fundamentally different service-delivery paradigm into an existing enterprise architecture.
This book describes the benefits and challenges of Cloud Computing and then leads the reader through the process of assessing the suitability of a cloud-based approach for a given situation, calculating and justifying the investment that is required to transform the process or application, and then developing a solid design that considers the implementation as well as the ongoing operations and governance required to maintain the solution in a partially outsourced delivery model.
Table of Contents
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xxiii
Define 1
Chapter 1 What is a Cloud? 3
Hype Cycle 3
Implementation Gap 5
Common Definition 7
Metaphorical Interpretation 8
Attributes 9
Related terms 10
History 12
Innovation or Impact? 13
Chapter 2 Cloud Architecture 19
Stack 19
Management Layers 23
Standards and Interoperability 25
Private, Partner and Public Clouds 26
Topology 30
Ecosystem 33
Chapter 3 Infrastructure as a Service 37
Infrastructure Stack 38
Infrastructure Services 43
Chapter 4 Platform as a Service 55
Web Application Frameworks 58
Web Hosting Services 59
Google App Engine 59
Microsoft Windows Azure 63
Force.com 68
Chapter 5 Software as a Service 73
Customer Relationship Management 74
Human Resources 78
Financial 79
Collaboration 81
Backup and Recovery 85
Industry Solutions 87
Assess 91
Chapter 6 Benefits and Challenges 93
Benefits 93
Challenges 97
Recommendations 99
Chapter 7 Strategic Impact 101
What is strategy? 102
Strategic analysis 103
External analysis 104
Internal analysis 109
Strategic realignment 112
Chapter 8 Risk Impact 117
Notion of risk 117
Risk Management 118
Cloud Impact 121
Enterprise wide risk management 126
Chapter 9 Financial Impact 129
Return on Investment 129
Cash flow 136
Financial visibility 137
Return on Assets 137
Design 139
Chapter 10 Requirements Analysis 141
Strategic alignment 141
Architecture Development Cycle 143
Chapter 11 Draft Architecture 149
Business Process Modeling 149
Architecture Modeling 154
Preliminary Design 157
Select 161
Chapter 12 Application Inventory 163
Options 163
Stakeholders 164
Business criteria 164
Technical criteria 166
Cloud Opportunities 168
Analysis 169
Net Benefit and Risk 170
New Opportunities 172
Chapter 13 Service Components 173
Service delivery model 173
Potential providers 177
Evaluation criteria and weight 177
Chapter 14 User Profiles 183
Options 184
Segmentation criteria 184
Profile Classification 186
Application map 187
Identity Management 188
Compliance 188
Integrate 189
Chapter 15 End-to-end Design 191
Technical design 191
Devices 192
Connectivity 195
Physical infrastructure 197
Management 198
Metering and Billing 200
Chapter 16 Connectivity 201
Network connectivity 203
Content delivery networks 210
Application connectivity 212
Information Connectivity 215
Chapter 17 Resilience 217
Availability 217
Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery 219
Capacity Planning 222
Chapter 18 Security 225
10 Security Domains 225
Access Control 227
Application Security 230
Cryptography 231
Physical (Environmental) Security 232
Security Architecture and Design 234
Telecommunications and Network Security 239
Implement 241
Chapter 19 Transition Management 243
Transition Success Factors 243
Project Plan 245
Project Team 247
Communications and Knowledge Transfer 248
Chapter 20 Migration 251
Code migration 251
Data migration 255
Desktop migration 258
Infrastructure 259
Transition interoperability 259
Chapter 21 Employee Changes 261
Impact 261
Refocus 262
Motivation and Incentives 264
Operate 267
Chapter 22 Service Management 269
Service Strategy 270
Service Design 271
Service Transition 272
Service Operation 272
Continual Service Improvement 272
Chapter 23 Administration 273
Administration Portal 273
Service Request Fulfillment 275
Change Management 275
New Release Management 277
Capacity Management 278
Availability Management 279
Access Management 280
Chapter 24 Monitoring 281
IT Service Continuity Management 281
IT operations management 283
Incident Management 284
Problem Management 285
Event Management 286
Chapter 25 Support 287
End-user support 288
IT support 295
Control 297
Chapter 26 Compliance 299
Data Privacy 302
Electronic Discovery 304
Incident response 305
Chapter 27 Risk 307
Threats 308
Recourse 310
Risk monitoring and control 314
Chapter 28 Governance 317
Conflicting interests 317
Critical areas 318
Cost/benefit analysis 319
Provider Negotiation 319
Service Contract 320
Service Monitoring 322
Audits 323
Adapt 325
Chapter 29 Systematic Refinement 327
Improvement process 328
Business landscape 329
Technology Evolution 329
Continual Service Improvement 330
Evolve 333
Chapter 30 Future Trends 335
Economic 335
Cultural 336
Virtual and Physical Convergence 337
Next-generation networking 337
Peer-to-peer networking 339
Appendix: Cloud Vendors 341
3Tera 343
Amazon 345
Appian 347
Appistry 349
Apple 351
AppNexus 353
Apprenda 355
AT&T 357
Binary Tree 359
Boomi 361
Box.net 363
Bungee Labs 365
Cast Iron Systems 367
Cisco 369
Citrix 371
Cloudkick 373
CloudShare 375
CloudSwitch 377
CohesiveFT 379
Computer Associates 381
Cordys 383
CSC 385
Dell 387
ElasticHosts 389
Elastra 391
EMC 393
Enomaly 395
enStratus 397
Etelos 399
Flexiant 401
GoGrid 403
Google 405
Hosting.com 407
HP 409
Hyperic 411
IBM 413
Intuit 415
Joyent 417
Layered Tech 419
LongJump 421
Microsoft 423
Mozy 425
NetApp 427
NetSuite 429
Nirvanix 431
OpSource 433
ParaScale 435
PingIdentity 437
Rackspace Cloud 439
RightScale 441
rPath 443
Salesforce.com 445
Savvis 447
Skytap 449
SOASTA 451
SugarSync 453
Symplified 455
Taleo 457
Terremark 459
TriCipher 461
Unisys 463
VMware 465
Workday 467
Zmanda 469
Zoho 471
References 473
Index 479
About the Author:
John Rhoton is a Strategy Consultant with over 25 years experience advising Global 500 companies in defining and driving their technical strategy. Most recently he has led the adopton of several emerging technologies including cloud computing, mobility, next-generation-networking and virtualization.
More information about the author is available on LinkedIn.