Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) [Hardcover] Author: Michael J. Kavis | Language: English | ISBN:
1118617614 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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An expert guide to selecting the right cloud service model for your businessCloud computing is all the rage, allowing for the delivery of computing and storage capacity to a diverse community of end-recipients. However, before you can decide on a cloud model, you need to determine what the ideal cloud service model is for your business. Helping you cut through all the haze, Architecting the Cloud is vendor neutral and guides you in making one of the most critical technology decisions that you will face: selecting the right cloud service model(s) based on a combination of both business and technology requirements.
- Guides corporations through key cloud design considerations
- Discusses the pros and cons of each cloud service model
- Highlights major design considerations in areas such as security, data privacy, logging, data storage, SLA monitoring, and more
- Clearly defines the services cloud providers offer for each service model and the cloud services IT must provide
Arming you with the information you need to choose the right cloud service provider, Architecting the Cloud is a comprehensive guide covering everything you need to be aware of in selecting the right cloud service model for you.
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- Hardcover: 199 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 28, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118617614
- ISBN-13: 978-1118617618
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
It's hard finding objective, realistic advice on all things cloud but the author has done a very good job of doing just that. After the first few chapters it became very obvious the author had a lot of experience within corporate IT not just startups. That is a critical piece for those of us in the corporate IT environment where advice on the cloud usually comes from pundits, vendors and others far removed from the reality of the challenges enterprise IT shops face. There is no technology bias or vendor bias in the book and although the author has a lot of experience with AWS he does not try and sell it for all your solutions.
The book takes you through a roadmap and foundational concepts about how to approach your applications and the cloud whether you are in enterprise IT or a nice greenfield startup. Some of the concepts are available in other places but you will be hard pressed to fine a more concise ordered guide. The author also provides lots of references to other information throughout the chapters.
There are a lot of concepts covered including Rest based API's, Cloud Types, Devops, Security and Compliance (really good) as well as organization impacts. You will probably discover as I did about half way through the book that 99.9 of the stuff that is covered is a great foundation for a modern enterprise IT shop whether headed to the cloud or not. I ended up bookmarking about a million things which is always a good sign.
I've done three enterprise IT cloud projects and I sorely wish I would have had this book before starting them. Although I'm going back to explore some of the chapters in more detail, the book was easy to get through in a weekend. I highly recommend reading it.
By Mark Griffin
The book you are considering now has the mission to help people think like architects about Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing as an approach to IT infrastructure is still emerging, and thus the technical details are still in flux – but the architectural principles of the Cloud are now falling into place. But only by thinking like an architect will you be able to take advantage of the full power of the Cloud.
Architects are in a unique position in the IT shop, because they have one foot in the business and the other squarely ensconced in the technology. They must understand the nuts and bolts of what works and what doesn’t without falling victim to the techie tunnel vision that inflicts so many IT people. But they must also live and breathe the business: its strategy, its goals, and most importantly, its problems.
Architecting the Cloud connects these dots. Mike Kavis has intentionally avoided product or vendor-specific details, focusing instead on the challenges that architects, as well as stakeholders in the architecture, should address. In other words, connecting the business problem with the appropriate solution. A truism to be sure, but easier said than done in the Cloud.
The reason that solving business challenges in the Cloud is so difficult is because the Cloud is not just one thing. It’s many diverse things: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS service models, Public, Private, and Hybrid deployment models, not to mention diverse value propositions. Some organizations seek to save money with the Cloud, while others want to shift capital to operational expense. On top of these benefits is elasticity: dealing better with unpredictable demand for IT resources.
Never before has architecture mattered so much. Building working solutions in the Cloud that actually address the business need depends upon it. With his hands-on experience architecting such Cloud solutions, Mike Kavis has the experience and insight to lead the way.
By Jason Bloomberg
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