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  • Copyright 2023
  • Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
  • Pages: 288
  • Edition: 1st
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  • ISBN-10: 0-13-793569-2
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-793569-7

Many cloud computing initiatives flat-out fail; others limp along, functioning tolerably without ever delivering what they promised. An Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing reveals why and shows how to do better. Cloud pioneer and long-time CTO David Linthicum explodes the industry's secrets and presents practical ways to optimize cloud for value and performance.

Linthicum takes a hard look at aggressively marketed technologies such as cloud-based AI, containers, no-code, serverless computing, and multicloud. He illuminates what works, what absolutely does not work, and how to manage the difficult cost-complexity tradeoffs presented by many offerings. You'll learn why some workloads and datasets still don't belong on the cloud, and even discover "game changer" technology that has actually been undersold.

Linthicum's seen it all: the tricks providers play to make their numbers at customers' expenserealities whispered about in conference rooms and spilled over drinks at conferencesfacts and techniques you simply must know to deliver value-optimized solutions.

An Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing is for every technical and business decision-maker responsible for evaluating, planning, implementing, operating, or optimizing cloud systems. It offers exceptional value to professionals ranging from solution architects to cloud engineers, CTOs to enterprise consultants, or those just getting started on their cloud computing journey.

  • What cloud providers don't tell you about their storage and compute services
  • Cloud-based artificial intelligence and machine learning: What are you actually paying for?
  • Containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development: truth versus hype
  • Multicloud: Which approaches actually save you money?
  • Real-world cloud security: beyond silos, black boxes, and out-of-control complexity
  • Cloud computing, carbon footprints, and sustainability: reality versus fiction
  • The crucial role of talent: how to identify, find, and keep the skills you need
  • How cloud computing is changingand how to prepare for what's coming

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: How Real Is the Value of Cloud Computing? 2

What We Thought We Knew.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

What Could Go Wrong?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

What Went Right?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter 2: The Realities and Opportunities of Cloud-Based Storage Services That Your Cloud Provider Will Not Tell You About 22

Cloud Storage Evolves.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Junk Data on Premises Moved to the Cloud Is Still Junk Data.. . . . . . . . . 23

Secrets to Finding the Best Cloud Storage Value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

The Future of Cloud Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Chapter 3: The Realities and Opportunities of Cloud-Based Compute Services That Your Cloud Provider Will Not Tell You About 44

The Trade-offs of Multitenancy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

CPU Performance, Meet the Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Paying Too Much for Cloud Compute? Here's Why.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Picking the Right Operating Systems.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Picking the Right Memory Configurations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

The Concept of Reserved Instances.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Going Off-brand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Chapter 4: Innovative Services and Public Clouds: What Do You Really Pay For? 64

AI/ML.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Serverless.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

DevOps/DevSecOps.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Analytics.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Edge and IoT.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Emerging Technologies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Chapter 5: Containers, Container Orchestration, and Cloud Native Realities 88

Containers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Container Orchestration and Clustering.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Cloud Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Technology Meets Reality.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Chapter 6: The Truths Behind Multicloud That Few Understand 110

Hybrid Cloud Realities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

The Move to Plural Public Clouds.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Multicloud Upside Realities.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Multicloud Downside Realities.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Key Concepts for Multicloud Success. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Chapter 7: Cloud Security Meets the Real World 132

An Insider's Guide to Cloud Security Fundamentals.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

What Cloud Security Worked.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

What Cloud Security Didn't Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

The Rise of Non-Native Cloud Security.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

The Rise of Proactive Security.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

The Rise of Security Automation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Chapter 8: Cloud Computing and Sustainability: Fact Versus Fiction 152

Initial Thinking: Cloud Data Centers, Bad.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

The Politics of Sustainability.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Finally, Sharing Is Possible.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Green Application Development?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Multicloud as a Sustainability Weapon?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

What Is Your Real Impact?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Chapter 9: The Evolution of the Computing Market 172

Forced March to the Cloud?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

More Consumption, but Prices Stay Static.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

The Power of a Few Players.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

The Emergence of Commoditization.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

The Emergence of System Repatriation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

The Rise of Federated Cloud Applications and Data.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Traditional Systems RemainWhy?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Battle for Human Talent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Chapter 10: Here's the Future of Cloud Computing from an Insider's PerspectiveBe Prepared 198

Continued Rise of Complex Cloud Deployments.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Refocus on Cross-Cloud Systems.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Changing Skills Demands.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Cloud Security Shifts Focus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Cloud Computing Becomes Local.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Industry Clouds Become Important.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Where Is Edge Computing?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Chapter 11: Wrapping Things Up: Miscellaneous Insider Insights 224

Cloud Can Make Life Better.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Changes in the Skills Mix.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

The Objectives Change.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

The Market Absorbs the Weak, and the Weak Emerge Again.. . . . . . . . . 237

Cloud Technology Continues to Be a Value Multiplier.. . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

9780137935697, TOC, 2/23/2023

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