Silver Clouds, Dark Linings: A Concise Guide to Cloud Computing, Rough Cuts
- By Archie Reed, Stephen G. Bennett
- Published Aug 18, 2010 by Pearson.
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Description
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 6 X 9
- Pages: 135
- Edition: 1st
- Rough Cuts
- ISBN-10: 0-13-259966-X
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-259966-5
This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
The Executive’s Strategic Guide to Driving Maximum Business Value from Cloud Services
Cloud services represent a fundamental shift in how individuals, enterprises, and governments conduct business, interact, and use technology. If used effectively, they can increase business agility and focus, simplify capacity planning, and strengthen cost control. Unsurprisingly, however, the cloud also presents risks. In this concise, executive level book, leading experts Archie Reed and Stephen G. Bennett share the insights and guidance decision-makers need to drive maximum value from cloud services--and avoid the pitfalls.
The authors explain what cloud computing is, how it works, who provides cloud services, and how companies are using them. Next, they walk through the entire cloud lifecycle, offering expert guidance on planning, governance, compliance, security, operations, administration, management, and more. You’ll learn how to:
· Assess the opportunities, benefits, and risks of cloud services in your environment
· Use the cloud to improve processes, accelerate system/product delivery, or create entirely new products and businesses
· Approach the cloud strategically (and learn why you should)
· Understand cloud infrastructure, operations, and standards from the decision-maker’s point of view
· Build on existing solution architecture, design practices, and SOA investments
· Ensure appropriate control, monitoring, compliance, and security
· Use IT process standardization to simplify cloud services management
· Define a flexible roadmap that enables multiple projects to move forward in parallel, and can change as the marketplace evolves
Cover illustration by RapidEye /iStockphoto.com
Sample Content
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Shift Happens!
1 Introduction
The Cloud Services Market
Cloud Services Benefits
Benefits of Cloud Services
Summary of Benefits
What Is Cloud?
The NIST Essential Characteristics of Cloud Computing
The NIST Service Models of Cloud Computing
The NIST Deployment Models of Cloud Computing
What Can Cloud Do for Me?
Summary
Endnotes
2 Evolution or Revolution?
Cloud Capabilities
Benefits Versus Risks
Summary
3 Reflections on the Shift
Endnotes
Part II: The Cloud Service Alphabet Soup
4 Introduction to Cloud Services
Cloud Usage Models
Cloud Architecture: High Level
Public Cloud Architectures
Private and Hybrid Cloud Architectures
Cloud Architecture in Depth
Software as a Service
Platform as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
Cloud Architecture Conclusions
Endnotes
5 State of the Industry
Cloud Services Create New Markets and New Threats
New Markets
New Threats
Standards
Assurance in the Cloud
Summary
Endnotes
6 Reflections on Cloud Services
Endnotes
Part III: Life in the Cloud–Planning and Managing the Cloud
7 Introduction to Cloud Planning
Enterprise Architecture
Solution Architecture and Design
Service-Oriented Architecture
Data and Application Interoperability
Data in the Cloud
Recovering Data from the Cloud
Managing Workloads in the Cloud
Governance and Management
Security
Summary
Endnotes
8 Cloud Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Risk Management
Governance
Compliance
Cohesive GRC
Cloud GRC Model
Cloud Service Portfolio Governance
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