Moving To The Cloud: Developing Apps in the New World of Cloud Computing - Softcover

Manjunath, Geetha; Sitaram, Dinkar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597497258 ISBN 13: 9781597497251

Publisher: Syngress, 2011

Synopsis

Moving to the Cloud provides an in-depth introduction to cloud computing models, cloud platforms, application development paradigms, concepts and technologies. The authors particularly examine cloud platforms that are in use today. They also describe programming APIs and compare the technologies that underlie them. The basic foundations needed for developing both client-side and cloud-side applications covering compute/storage scaling, data parallelism, virtualization, MapReduce, RIA, SaaS and Mashups are covered. Approaches to address key challenges of a cloud infrastructure, such as scalability, availability, multi-tenancy, security and management are addressed. The book also lays out the key open issues and emerging cloud standards that will drive the continuing evolution of cloud computing.

• Includes complex case studies of cloud solutions by cloud experts from Yahoo! , Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe and HP Labs.
• Presents insights and techniques for creating compelling rich client applications that interact with cloud services.
• Demonstrates and distinguishes features of different cloud platforms using simple to complex API programming examples.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Dinkar Sitaram is a Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard, Systems Technology and Software Division, Bangalore, India. He is responsible for new product and technology development with a focus on storage systems, self-healing and automated management. Dr. Sitaram is also responsible for University Relations, and Innovation activities at HP. He earned the PhD in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin, Madison; his R&D efforts have resulted in over a dozen granted US patents. He is co-author of Multimedia Servers: Applications, Environments and Design. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.
Geetha Manjunath is a Senior Research Scientist and Master Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs, Bangalore, India. Her research interests are in Cloud Computing, Data Mining and Semantic Web. She is currently leading a research project on novel cloud services for simplifying web access. She has an M.E in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and her 20-year research career in industry has led to multiple US patents and international conference papers.

Review:

"This book provides an excellent overview of all the transformations that are taking place around Cloud Computing" --Dr. Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President of Research and Director, HP Labs

About this edition

• Publisher: Syngress
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1597497258
• ISBN 13: 9781597497251
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 468