Enterprise Cloud Computing: Technology, Architecture, Applications
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 10/14/2010
EAN 9780521137355, ISBN10: 0521137357
Paperback, 290 pages, 23.6 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Cloud computing promises to revolutionize IT and business by making computing available as a utility over the internet. This book is intended primarily for practising software architects who need to assess the impact of such a transformation. It explains the evolution of the internet into a cloud computing platform, describes emerging development paradigms and technologies, and discusses how these will change the way enterprise applications should be architected for cloud deployment. Gautam Shroff provides a technical description of cloud computing technologies, covering cloud infrastructure and platform services, programming paradigms such as MapReduce, as well as 'do-it-yourself' hosted development tools. He also describes emerging technologies critical to cloud computing. The book also covers the fundamentals of enterprise computing, including a technical introduction to enterprise architecture, so it will interest programmers aspiring to become software architects and serve as a reference for a graduate-level course in software architecture or software engineering.
Preface
Part I. Computing Platforms
1. Enterprise computing
a retrospective
2. The internet as a platform
3. Software as a service and cloud computing
4. Enterprise architecture
role and evolution
Part II. Cloud Platforms
5. Cloud computing platforms
6. Cloud computing economics
Part III. Cloud Technologies
7. Web services, AJAX and mashups
8. Virtualization technology
9. Multi-tenant software
Part IV. Cloud Development
10. Data in the cloud
11. MapReduce and extensions
12. Dev 2.0 platforms
Part V. Software Architecture
13. Enterprise software
ERP, SCM, CRM
14. Custom enterprise applications and Dev 2.0
15. Workflow and business processes
16. Enterprise analytics and search
Part VI. Enterprise Cloud Computing
17. Enterprise cloud computing ecosystem
18. Roadmap for enterprise cloud computing
List of abbreviations
References
Index.
'Gautam Shroff's new book has arrived at a critical time and ably serves the computer professional wishing explore important new information technology. The past few years have seen an acceleration in the normally rapid pace of technological change. Cloud computing is becoming the new reality. It requires an understanding of virtualization and of the new systems designed to support massively parallel computation in the cloud: map-reduce, Hadoop, Hive, and many others. These techniques in turn make possible very large-scale enterprise analytics, using a variety of modern data-mining algorithms. In a succinct way, the author introduces us to all of these technologies and provides a unique perspective on today's IT infrastructure.' Jeffrey D. Ullman, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University