Moving To The Cloud
Developing Apps in the New World of Cloud Computing

The only book to provide an end-to-end technical description of all the technologies that make up cloud computing hardware and software

Geetha Manjunath (Author), Dinkar Sitaram (Author)

9781597497251, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 20 December 2011

468 pages, 60 illustrations
23.5 x 19 x 2.9 cm, 0.96 kg

"This book provides an excellent overview of all the transformations that are taking place around Cloud Computing" --Dr. Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President of Research and Director, HP Labs

Moving to the Cloud provides an in-depth introduction to cloud computing models, cloud platforms, application development paradigms, concepts and technologies. The authors particularly examine cloud platforms that are in use today. They also describe programming APIs and compare the technologies that underlie them. The basic foundations needed for developing both client-side and cloud-side applications covering compute/storage scaling, data parallelism, virtualization, MapReduce, RIA, SaaS and Mashups are covered. Approaches to address key challenges of a cloud infrastructure, such as scalability, availability, multi-tenancy, security and management are addressed. The book also lays out the key open issues and emerging cloud standards that will drive the continuing evolution of cloud computing.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Subject Areas: Computer networking & communications [UT], Computer security [UR], Databases & the Web [UNN], Internet: general works [UBW]