Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications

Major enterprises and small start-ups are beginning to embrace cloud computing for the scalability and reliability that cloud vendors can provide. This book demonstrates how to implement robust and highly scalable cloud computing applications. Filled with comparative charts and decision trees to help navigate the many implementation alternatives, the author describes the major available commercial offerings and guides readers in choosing the best combination of platform, tools, and services for a small, growing start-up or an established enterprise. Aimed at software developers and their managers, the text details cloud development environments, lifecycles, and project management. Table of Contents

About the Author

Dedication

Author's Acknowledgements

How to Read This Book

Preface 

Executive Summary

1 Cloud Computing is a True Paradigm Shift           

2 From Do It Yourself to Public Cloud - A Continuum

3 Cloud Computing - Is It Old Mainframe Bess in a New Dress?

4 Moving Into and Around the Clouds and Efforts at Standardization

5 Cloud Economics and Capacity Management

6 Demystifiying the Cloud: A Case Study Using Amazon's Cloud Services (AWS)

7 Virtualization: Open Source and VMware

8 Securing the Cloud - Reliability, Availability and Security

9 Scale and Reuse- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

10 Windows Azure          

11 Google in the Cloud

12 Enterprise Cloud Vendors

13 Cloud Service Providers           

14 Practice Fusion: A Case Study

15 Support and Reference Materials

Index