Cloud Computing: Business Trends and Technologies - Hardcover
by Igor Faynberg (Author), Hui-Lan Lu (Author), Dor Skuler (Author)
Cloud Computing: Business Trends and Technologies provides a broad introduction to Cloud computing technologies and their applications to IT and telecommunications businesses (i.e., the network function virtualization, NFV). To this end, the book is expected to serve as a textbook in a graduate course on Cloud computing.
The book examines the business cases and then concentrates on the technologies necessary for supporting them. In the process, the book addresses the principles of - as well as the known problems with - the underlying technologies, such as virtualization, data communications, network and operations management, security and identity management. It introduces, through open-source case studies (based on OpenStack), an extensive illustration of lifecycle management.
The book also looks at the existing and emerging standards, demonstrating their respective relation to each topic.
Overall, this is an authoritative textbook on this emerging and still-developing discipline, which
-Guides the reader through basic concepts, to current practices, to state-of-the-art applications.
-Considers technical standards bodies involved in Cloud computing standardization.
-Is written by innovation experts in operating systems and data communications, each with over 20 years' experience in business, research, and teaching.
Igor Faynberg
Bell Labs Fellow, CTO of Stargazers Consulting, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stevens
Hui-Lan Lu
Bell Labs Fellow at Alcatel-Lucent
Dor Skuler
Serial entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics, formerly SVP Alcatel-Lucent, Founder and General Manager of CloudBand Business Unit
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