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About this Item: McGraw Hill, 2009. Condition: Good. 1st. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Seller Inventory # GRP61057495

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About this Item: Tata McGraw-Hill Education Pvt. Ltd., 2009. Softcover. Condition: New. First edition. The promise of cloud computing is here. These pages provide the `eyes wide open` insights you need to transform your business. --Christopher Crowhurst, Vice President, Strategic Technology, Thomson Reuters A Down-to-Earth Guide to Cloud Computing Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach provides a comprehensive look at the emerging paradigm of Internet-based enterprise applications and services. This accessible book offers a broad introduction to cloud computing, reviews a wide variety of currently available solutions, and discusses the cost savings and organizational and operational benefits. You`ll find details on essential topics, such as hardware, platforms, standards, migration, security, and storage. You`ll also learn what other organizations are doing and where they`re headed with cloud computing. If your company is considering the move from a traditional network infrastructure to a cutting-edge cloud solution, you need this strategic guide. Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach covers: * Costs, benefits, security issues, regulatory concerns, and limitations * Service providers, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, IBM, EMC/VMware, Salesforce com, and others * Hardware, infrastructure, clients, platforms, applications, services, and storage * Standards, including HTTP, HTML, DHTML, XMPP, SSL, and OpenID * Web services, such as REST, SOAP, and JSON * Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Software plus Services (S+S) * Custom application development environments, frameworks, strategies, and solutions * Local clouds, thin clients, and virtualization * Migration, best practices, and emerging standards Table of contents Section One: Getting Started; Chapter 1. The History and Future of Cloud Computing; Chapter 2. Cloud Computing Basics; Chapter 3. Your Organization and Cloud Computing; Chapter 4. Cloud Computing with the Titans (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo); Chapter 5. The Business Case for going Cloud (w/ case study); Section Two: Cloud Computing Technology; Chapter 6. Hardware and Infrastructure; Chapter 7. Accessing the Cloud (basics to APIs); Chapter 8. Cloud Storage; Chapter 9. Emerging Standards; Section Three: Cloud Computing at Work; Chapter 10. Software as a Service; Chapter 11. Software Plus Services; Chapter 12. Developing Applications; Chapter 13. Local Clouds and Thin Clients; Chapter 14. Migrating to the Cloud; Appendix A. Best Practices; Appendix B. List of Cloud Computing movers and shakers and Informational Resources Printed Pages: 0. Seller Inventory # 24847

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