Cloud Computing: Concepts and Practices

by Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt

Overview

This book provides readers with an overview of Cloud Computing, starting with historical background on mainframe computers and early networking prools, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319778389
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	03/24/2018
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	269
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Naresh K. Sehgal has been working at Intel since 1988, prior to that completed his B.E. from Punjab Engineering College (India), M.S. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University (New York). Naresh has taught a Cloud Computing class at Santa Clara University (California), where he also earned a MBA.

Pramod Chandra (PCP) Bhatt started his teaching career in 1965 at IIT Kanpur, and then moved to IIT Delhi in 1969, and retired from IIT Delhi in 1996. Prof Bhatt also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), Universities of Dortmund, Paderborn and Bochum (Germany), Kochi University of Technology (Japan), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at Bangalore. Professor Bhatt has a M.E. from Calcutta University and a PhD from IIT Kanpur. He has also been a Konrad Zuse Fellow at the University of Dortmund.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Foundations of Cloud Computing.- Cloud Computing Pyramid.- Features of Private and Public Clouds.- Cloud Workload Characterization.- Cloud Management and Monitoring.- Cloud Computing and Information Security.- Migrating to Cloud.- Migrating a Complex Industry to Cloud.- Cost and Billing practices in Cloud.- Analytics in the Cloud.- Future Trends in Cloud Computing.- A Quick Test of Your Cloud fundamentals Grasp.- Hands-on project to use Cloud Service Provider.- Appendix A: Points to Ponder.- Appendix B: Additional Considerations for Cloud Computing.- Appendix C: Suggested List of Additional Cloud Projects.Appendix A: Points to Ponder.- Appendix B: Additional Considerations for Cloud Computing.- Appendix C: Suggested List of Additional Cloud Projects.Appendix A: Points to Ponder.- Appendix B: Additional Considerations for Cloud Computing.- Appendix C: Suggested List of Additional Cloud Projects.Appendix A: Points to Ponder.- Appendix B: Additional Considerations for Cloud Computing.- Appendix C: Suggested List of Additional Cloud Projects.Appendix A: Points to Ponder.- Appendix B: Additional Considerations for Cloud Computing.- Appendix C: Suggested List of Additional Cloud Projects.

Editorial Reviews

This book is intended as a textbook for computer science and information technology students and MBA students of technology-based management. … Courses in cloud computing, as well as most libraries, will no doubt find this text a valuable resource. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.” (R. Bharath, Choice, Vol. 56 (2), October, 2018)

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