Cloud Computing: Concepts and Practices - Hardcover

Sehgal, Naresh Kumar; Bhatt, Pramod Chandra P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319778382 ISBN 13: 9783319778389

Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, 2018

Synopsis

This book provides readers with an overview of Cloud Computing, starting with historical background on mainframe computers and early networking protocols, leading to current concerns such as hardware and systems security, performance, emerging areas of IoT, Edge Computing etc. Readers will benefit from the in-depth discussion of cloud computing usage and the underlying architecture, with focus on best practices for using a dynamic cloud infrastructure, cloud operations management and cloud security. The authors explain carefully the “why’s and how’s” of Cloud Computing, so engineers will find this book and invaluable introduction to the topic.

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About the Author

Naresh K. Sehgal has been working at Intel since 1988, prior to that completed his B.E. from Punjab Engineering College (India), M.S. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University (New York). Naresh has taught a Cloud Computing class at Santa Clara University (California), where he also earned a MBA.

Pramod Chandra (PCP) Bhatt started his teaching career in 1965 at IIT Kanpur, and then moved to IIT Delhi in 1969, and retired from IIT Delhi in 1996. Prof Bhatt also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), Universities of Dortmund, Paderborn and Bochum (Germany), Kochi University of Technology (Japan), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at Bangalore. Professor Bhatt has a M.E. from Calcutta University and a PhD from IIT Kanpur. He has also been a Konrad Zuse Fellow at the University of Dortmund.

From the Back Cover

This book provides readers with an overview of Cloud Computing, starting with historical background on mainframe computers and early networking protocols, leading to current concerns such as hardware and systems security, performance, emerging areas of IoT, Edge Computing etc. Readers will benefit from the in-depth discussion of cloud computing usage and the underlying architecture, with focus on best practices for using a dynamic cloud infrastructure, cloud operations management and cloud security. The authors explain carefully the "why's and how's" of Cloud Computing, so engineers will find this book and invaluable introduction to the topic.

• Provides practical guidance for software developers engaged in migrating in-house applications to Public Cloud;
  
• Describes for IT managers how to improve their Cloud Computing infrastructures;
  
• Includes coverage of security concerns with Cloud operating models;
  
• Uses several case studies to illustrate the "why's and how's" of migrating to the Cloud.
  

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 3319778382
• ISBN 13: 9783319778389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 269