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Moving To The Cloud
1st Edition
Developing Apps in the New World of Cloud Computing
Description
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.
Key Features
- 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
Readership
IT professionals—primarily technical architects; secondarily applications developers and industrial researchers
Table of Contents
Dedication
About the Authors
About the Technical Editor
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Infrastructure as a Service
Chapter 3. Platform as a Service
Chapter 4. Software as a Service
Chapter 5. Paradigms for Developing Cloud Applications
Chapter 6. Addressing the Cloud Challenges
Chapter 7. Designing Cloud Security
Chapter 8. Managing the Cloud
Chapter 9. Related Technologies
Chapter 10. Future Trends and Research Directions
Index
Details
- No. of pages:
- 468
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © 2012
About the authors
Dinkar Sitaram
Chief Technologist, 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.
Affiliations and Expertise
Chief Technologist, Hewlett Packard, Systems Technology and Software Division, Bangalore, India
Geetha Manjunath
Senior Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Labs, Bangalore, India, where her research focuses on Personalization, Ontologies and Semantic Web. She is currently leading a research project on novel cloud services for simplifying web access. She obtained the M.E in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Her research has led to multiple US patents and international conference papers.
Affiliations and Expertise
Senior Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Labs, Bangalore, India
Reviews
"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