Cloud Computing

Could Computing: Computing Theory and Practice provides students and IT Professionals with an in-depth analysis of the Cloud from the ground-up, beginning with a discussion of parallel computing and architectures and distributed systems followed by a look at existing cloud infrastructures and how they are being deployed at leading companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple and applications in a variety of fields such as healthcare, banking and science. Also discussed is the how to successfully deploy a cloud application across the enterprise using virtualization, resource management and the right amount of networking support including but not limited to such items as content delivery networks and storage area networks. For developers, a complete introduction to application development is provided on a variety of platforms.