Architecting cloud computing solutions : build cloud strategies that align technology and economics while effectively managing risk / Kevin L. Jackson, Scott Goessling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Kevin L., author.

Goessling, Scott, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt, 2018.

Biography/History:

Jackson Kevin L. : Kevin L. Jackson is a globally recognized cloud computing expert, technology thought leader, and CEO/founder of GovCloud Network, LLC. Mr. Jackson's commercial experience includes being vice president of J. P. Morgan Chase and worldwide sales executive at IBM. He has deployed mission applications to the US Intelligence Community cloud computing environment (IC ITE), and he has authored and published several cloud computing courses and books. He is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP). Goessling Scott: Scott Goessling is the COO/CTO for Burstorm and helped create the worlds first automated Cloud Solution Design platform. He has lived and worked in the Philippines, Japan, India, Mexico, France, and the US. Being an expert in many technologies, Scott has also been a part of several successful start-ups, including a network hardware innovator that was acquired for over $8B. Scott's perspectives combine many real-world experiences. He is interested in nutrition therapy, home renovation, custom car restoration, cooking, photography, sculpture, and, most importantly, parenting.

Summary:

Cloud adoption is a core component of digital transformation. Scaling the IT environment, making it resilient, and reducing costs are what organizations want. Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions presents and explains the critical Cloud solution design considerations and technology decisions required to choose and deploy the right Cloud.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright and Credits

Contributors

Packt Upsell

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue

Chapter 1: What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing history

Cloud computing definition

Essential characteristics of cloud computing

Cloud computing operational models

Cloud service models

IaaS - background

IaaS - things to consider

SaaS - background

SaaS - things to consider

PaaS - background

PaaS - things to consider

Other cloud service models

Cloud deployment models

Public

Private and dedicated

Private cloud

Dedicated cloud

Virtual private cloud

Community

Hybrid

Other delivery models

Cloud washing

Cloud computing taxonomy

Summary

Chapter 2: Governance and Change Management

IT governance

Implementation strategy

Change management

IT service management

Architecting cloud computing solution catalogs

Chapter 3: Design Considerations

Foundation for design - the thought process

Foundation for design - the cloud is economic, not technical

Foundation for design - the plans

Understand business strategy and goals

Chapter 4: Business Drivers, Metrics, and Use Cases

Return on Investment

ROI metrics

Key performance indicators

Business goal key performance indicators

Economic goal metric

General use cases

Chapter 5: Architecture Executive Decisions

Invert for insight - process

Real-time collaboration

Express challenges, not requirements

Automate and enable

Stop talking technology - Strategy

Economics, not pricing - Economics

Solutions, not servers - Technology

Lower costs can be bad for business - Risk

Adoption is optional - Culture

Technology for the executives

Cloud service models for executives

Deployment models for executives.

Implementation models and IT governance for executives

Chapter 6: Architecting for Transition

User characteristics

Application design

Application migration

Application workloads

Static workloads

Once-in-a-lifetime workloads

Unpredictable and random workloads

Application categories

Application dependencies

Use of APIs

SOAP

REST

Advantages of SOAP and REST

Technical architecture requirements

Legal/regulatory/security requirements

Business continuity and disaster recovery - BCDR

Economics

Organizational assessment

Chapter 7: Baseline Cloud Architectures

Baseline architecture types

Single server

Single-site

Non-redundant three-tier architectures

Redundant three-tier architectures

Single points of failure

Redundancy versus resiliency

Horizontal scaling

OSI model and layer description

Logical and physical designs

Autoscaling architecture

Complex architecture types

Multi-data center architecture

Global server load balancing

Database resiliency

Caching and databases

Alert-based and queue-based scalable setup

Hybrid cloud site architectures

Scalable multi-cloud architecture

Failover multi-cloud architecture

Cloud and dedicated hosting architecture

Architecting for hybrid clouds

Hybrid user interface

Hybrid processing

Hybrid data

Hybrid backup

Hybrid backend

Hybrid application functions

Hybrid multimedia web application

Hybrid development environment

Chapter 8: Solution Reference Architectures

Application security

Web application hosting

Public network

Cloud provider network components

Web service tier

Enterprise network components

Service tier

Security components

API management

E-commerce

Public network components

Cloud provider components.

Enterprise network components

Enterprise data

Security

Mobile

Mobile architecture components

Mobile device components

Public network Components

Provider cloud service components

Enterprise social collaboration

Cloud customer reference architecture for enterprise social collaboration

Architecture Overview

User network

Service consumer

Provider network

Enterprise network

Big data and analytics

Provider cloud components

Blockchain

Blockchain Reference Architecture Capabilities

Cloud network

Enterprise data connectivity

Blockchain services

Architecture for IoT

Edge tier

Cloud service provider

Architecture for hybrid integration

Cloud provider network

Chapter 9: Cloud Environment Key Tenets and Virtualization

Elastic infrastructure

Elastic platform

Node-based availability

Environment-based availability

Technology service consumption model

Design balance

Virtualization

Compute virtualization

Network virtualization

Data virtualization

Application virtualization

Chapter 10: Cloud Clients and Key Cloud Services

Cloud computing clients

IaaS

Compute services

Storage services

Volume/block storage

Object/blob storage

Key-value storage

Archival storage

Communications services

Virtual networks

Message oriented middleware

Exactly-once delivery

At-least-once delivery

Transaction-based delivery

Timeout-based delivery

Metering/monitoring

Auditing

Service level agreement

PaaS

Database

Integrated Development Environment

SaaS

Summary.

Chapter 11: Operational Requirements

Application programming interface

API levels and categories

Common APIs for cloud storage

Common cloud middleware API

Additional concerns

Common infrastructure file formats - VMs

Data and application federation

Deployment

Federated identity

Identity management

Portability and interoperability

Lifecycle management

Location awareness

Metering and monitoring

Open client

Availability

Privacy

Resiliency

Auditability

Performance

Management and governance

Transaction and concurrency across clouds

SLAs and benchmarks

Provider exit

Security controls

Distributed computing reference model

Chapter 12: CSP Performance

CSP performance metrics

CSP benchmarks

Service level agreements

Chapter 13: Cloud Application Development

Core application characteristics

Loose coupling

Service orientation

Cloud application components

Server side

LAMP

WISA stack

Java

Client side

DevOps

Microservices and serverless architectures

Application migration planning

Chapter 14: Data Security

Data security life cycle

Data classification

Data privacy

Personally Identifiable Information - PII

Chapter 15: Application Security

The application security management process

Application security risks

Cloud computing threats

Chapter 16: Risk Management and Business Continuity

Framing risk

Assessing risk

Monitoring risk

Business continuity and disaster recovery

Chapter 17: Hands-On Lab 1 - Basic Cloud Design (Single Server)

Hands-on labs and exercises

Complexity

Eliminating the noise

Burstorm lab 1 - background (NeBu Systems)

Burstorm lab 1 - getting started

Burstorm lab 1 - creating new model.

Burstorm lab 1 - creating a design scenario

Burstorm lab 1 - design scenario solution results

Burstorm lab 1 - high-level rapid insights

Chapter 18: Hands-On Lab 2 - Advanced Cloud Design Insight

Data-driven design

All data is useful

maybe not

Burstorm lab 2 - advanced insight (NeBu Systems)

Burstorm lab 2 - accessing additional detail

Overview of the Details tab

Burstorm lab 2 - selecting for direct comparison

Comparing by price

Comparing by performance

Comparing by price-to-performance

Chapter 19: Hands-On Lab 3 - Optimizing Current State (12 Months Later)

Visualizing current state data

Hands-on lab 3 - visualizing the data

Hands-on lab 3 - NeBu Systems' transformation progress update

Hands-on lab 3 - Current billing file

Chapter 20: Cloud Architecture - Lessons Learned

Epilogue

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Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78847-074-5

OCLC:

1039689207