Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture

The Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl

by Thomas Erl, Ricardo Puttini, Zaigham Mahmood

Clouds are distributed technology platforms that leverage sophisticated technology innovations to provide highly scalable and resilient environments that can be remotely utilized by organizations in a multitude of powerful ways. To successfully build upon, integrate with, or even create a cloud environment requires an understanding of its common inner mechanics, architectural layers, and models, as well as an understanding of the business and economic factors that result from the adoption and real-world use of cloud-based services.

In Cloud Concepts, Technology & Architecture , Thomas Erl, one of the world’s top-selling IT authors, teams up with cloud computing experts and researchers to break down proven and mature cloud computing technologies and practices into a series of well-defined concepts, models, technology mechanisms, and technology architectures, all from an industry-centric and vendor-neutral point of view. In doing so, the book establishes concrete, academic coverage with a focus on structure, clarity, and well-defined building blocks for mainstream cloud computing platforms and solutions.

Subsequent to technology-centric coverage, the book proceeds to establish business-centric models and metrics that allow for the financial assessment of cloud-based IT resources and their comparison to those hosted on traditional IT enterprise premises. Also provided are templates and formulas for calculating SLA-related quality-of-service values and numerous explorations of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS delivery models.

With more than 260 figures, 29 architectural models, and 20 mechanisms, this indispensable guide provides a comprehensive education of cloud computing essentials that will never leave your side.

Genres: Technology, Computer Science, Software, Architecture, Computers, Textbooks, Programming

528 pages, Hardcover

First published April 8, 2013

Reviews

[Fausto Betances · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great introductory book.
It becomes repetitive at times but that could be a good thing for those entirely new to the subject.
After finishing this book, I'm ready for more in depth knowledge.

[Richard Gunstone · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fairly good, recommend for a general overview particularly if you want to ensure you have consistent body of knowledge

[Kim Sung · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read as part of a post grad course. The concepts are interesting and the book is well structured. But the writing style is a bit too dry for my liking, although not as bad as reading a journal article. The book and the content would have been more engaging if it was written in a more layman's language, as I've seen in some other technical books, but I get that it is hard to achieve that sometimes. Overall, I will keep this book as reference as it has some useful material on cloud computing architecture.

[Vineet Jain · Rating 4 out of 5]

While, there are definitely some concepts which you would want to understand deeply, this title is still a good introduction to the cloud technology.

There could be a lot of dissimilarities but it might not be entirely wrong to say that Cloud service is Swiss banking equivalent for data.

[Snorlax · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good introductory book to have general overview about cloud computing if you are new to it.

[Rafael Cortes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great fundamental book, full of concepts that shaped the Cloud Computing Era since its birth. Due to the layered approach, it tends to be repetitive sometimes.

[Dario Maiocchi · Rating 3 out of 5]

good generic book

[Rana Alabdan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I teach this book I dont think it is good enough no tutorials or problems.

[Aaron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very general book to give you an idea of the cloud computing space. I'm not a professional in the cloud computing field, but I feel I can talk confidently about it after reading

[Nobbynob Littlun · Rating 1 out of 5]

I imagine that, if one were to take out all the grandiloquence and verbosity -- to express the useful content of the entire book in the most effective way possible -- you would have yourself a nice pamphlet.

[Mills College Library]

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[Prashanth Suresh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good read

Though it covers many concepts around cloud computing, The entire book could have been summarized in 30 pages. It is just too repetitive.

[Ram · Rating 5 out of 5]

recommended book for cloud computing