Operationalizing Multi-Cloud Environments: Technologies, Tools and Use Cases

by Rajganesh Nagarajan (Editor), Pethuru Raj (Editor), Ramkumar Thirunavukarasu (Editor)

Overview

This book discusses various aspects of the multi-cloud paradigm. The initial portion of the book focuses on the motivations for the industry to embrace a multi-cloud option and the distinct business, technology, and user cases of multi-cloud implementations. The middle part of the book explains the challenges of setting up and sustaining multi-cloud environments. The latter portion focuses on the next-generation technologies and tools along with multi-cloud platforms, processes, patterns, and practices. The final segment of the book is dedicated for cloud brokerage systems. The various traits and tenets of cloud brokerage services especially for accomplishing cloud intermediation, integration, orchestration, governance, security, management, configuration, etc. are explained in detail. The book also clearly articulates how to have intelligent brokers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030744021
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	09/17/2021
Series:	EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	37 MB
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About the Author

N. Rajganesh is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India. He obtained PhD degree from Anna University during the year 2018 for his thesis entitled “Fuzzy based Intelligent Semantic Cloud Service Discovery for Effective Utilization of Services”. Having 15.5 years of experience in Teaching, he has contributed to research findings in various reputed international Journals. During his career, he has attended more than 20 Faculty Development Program/Workshop/Seminar, which are sponsored by AICTE, UGC, ISTE, and Anna University. He has functioned as resource person in more than 10 Faculty Development Programme and organized seminars and workshops. He is functioning as an active reviewer for top-notch journals from IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, and other publishers..

 

Pethuru Raj is working as the chief architect and vice-president in the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) division of Reliance Jio Platforms Ltd. Bangalore. His previous stints are in IBM global Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE), Wipro consulting services (WCS), and Robert Bosch Corporate Research (CR). In total, he has gained more than 19 years of IT industry experience and 8 years of research experience. Having finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree at Anna University, Chennai, he continued with the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. He published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, and Inderscience. He has authored and edited 20 books thus far and contributed 35 book chapters for various technology books edited by highly acclaimed and accomplished professors and professionals. He focuses on some of the emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big and Fast Data Analytics, Blockchain, Digital Twins, Cloud-native computing, Edge/Fog Clouds,Reliability Engineering, Microservices architecture (MSA), and Event-driven Architecture (EDA). His personal web site is at www.tinyurl.com/peterindia.

 

Dr. T. Ramkumar is presently working as Associate Professor&Head of the Department in School of Information Technology&Engineering, VIT, Vellore, India. He obtained Ph.D degree from Anna University during the year 2010 for his thesis entitled “Synthesizing Global Association Rules in Multi-Database Mining”. Having 19 years of experience in Higher education&research, regularly he contributes research findings in various reputed international Journals. Some of his research works have been published in journals from Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, World-Scientific and other publishers.  He has functioned as resource person in more than 20 Faculty Development Programme and organized seminars and workshops which are funded by ISTE, AICTE and others. He has successfully guided three research scholars lead to Ph. D degree.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Multi-cloud environments for Enterprise-grade applications.- Multi-cloud architecture and layered model.- Understanding services and applications for a multi-cloud architecture.- Mixed IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS based multi-cloud architecture.- Software environments of multi-cloud deployment.- Notion of cloud services brokerage for multi-cloud.- Big data services in multi-cloud platforms.- Strategies for bridging MSA paradigm and multi-cloud computing.- Managing services mapping and dependencies.- Market-based management of clouds.- Multi-cloud Setup and Resource management.- Next generation technologies for multi-cloud.- Privacy and Security issues in multi-cloud environment.- Intelligent broker design for multi-cloud environment.- Conclusion.