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Silver clouds, dark linings a concise guide to cloud computing
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reed, Archie, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([178] p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Pearson Education 2011
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The Executive’s Strategic Guide to Driving Maximum Business Value from Cloud Services Cloud services represent a fundamental shift in how individuals, enterprises, and governments conduct business, interact, and use technology. If used effectively, they can increase business agility and focus, simplify capacity planning, and strengthen cost control. Unsurprisingly, however, the cloud also presents risks. In this concise, executive level book, leading experts Archie Reed and Stephen G. Bennett share the insights and guidance decision-makers need to drive maximum value from cloud services--and avoid the pitfalls. The authors explain what cloud computing is, how it works, who provides cloud services, and how companies are using them. Next, they walk through the entire cloud lifecycle, offering expert guidance on planning, governance, compliance, security, operations, administration, management, and more. You’ll learn how to: · Assess the opportunities, benefits, and risks of cloud services in your environment · Use the cloud to improve processes, accelerate system/product delivery, or create entirely new products and businesses · Approach the cloud strategically (and learn why you should) · Understand cloud infrastructure, operations, and standards from the decision-maker’s point of view · Build on existing solution architecture, design practices, and SOA investments · Ensure appropriate control, monitoring, compliance, and security · Use IT process standardization to simplify cloud services management · Define a flexible roadmap that enables multiple projects to move forward in parallel, and can change as the marketplace evolves Cover illustration by RapidEye /iStockphoto.com
- Contents:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I: Shift Happens!
- 1 Introduction
- The Cloud Services Market
- Cloud Services Benefits
- What Is Cloud?
- What Can Cloud Do for Me?
- Summary
- Endnotes
- 2 Evolution or Revolution?
- Cloud Capabilities
- Benefits Versus Risks
- 3 Reflections on the Shift
- Part II: The Cloud Service Alphabet Soup
- 4 Introduction to Cloud Services
- Cloud Usage Models
- Cloud Architecture: High Level
- Public Cloud Architectures
- Private and Hybrid Cloud Architectures
- Cloud Architecture in Depth
- Software as a Service
- Platform as a Service
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Cloud Architecture Conclusions
- 5 State of the Industry
- Cloud Services Create New Markets and New Threats
- New Markets
- New Threats
- Standards
- Assurance in the Cloud
- 6 Reflections on Cloud Services
- Part III: Life in the Cloud-Planning and Managing the Cloud
- 7 Introduction to Cloud Planning
- Enterprise Architecture
- Solution Architecture and Design
- Data and Application Interoperability
- Governance and Management
- Security
- 8 Cloud Governance, Risk, and Compliance
- Risk Management
- Governance
- Compliance
- Cohesive GRC
- Cloud GRC Model
- GRC Is a Process, Not a Project!
- 9 Cloud Business Risk and Security
- Risks Associated with Cloud Services
- Where Do I Start?
- Framing the Security Discussion
- Risk and Trust
- Data Use and Classification
- Identity and Privacy Management
- Infrastructure Security
- Physical Security
- Legal Issues
- Strategic Security
- 10 Cloud Operations, Administration, and Management
- Standardized Processes and Tools
- Operating Cloud Services
- Cloud Service Provider Management
- Summary.
- 11 Reflections on Life in the Cloud
- Part IV: GPS to the Cloud...Where to Now?
- 12 Creating a Successful Cloud Roadmap
- Crossing Your Chasms
- Planning Your Journey
- 13 Conclusion
- Big Data
- Big Architecture
- Communications, Networking, and the Interconnectedness of All Things
- Privacy
- The Rise of the Broker
- The Rise of Community Clouds
- Rapidly Changing Billing Models
- Silver Clouds, Dark Linings
- Endnotes.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612780530
- 9781282780538
- 1282780530
- OCLC:
- 1027147126
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