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Cloud Computing For Dummies Judith S. Hurwitz

Cloud Computing For Dummies By Judith S. Hurwitz

Cloud Computing For Dummies by Judith S. Hurwitz


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Cloud Computing For Dummies by Judith S. Hurwitz

Get your head-and your business-into the Cloud Cloud computing is no longer just a clever new toy in the world of IT infrastructure. Despite the nebulous name, it's become a real and important part of our information architecture-and tech professionals who ignore it or try to skim their way through risk falling behind rapidly. The new edition of Cloud Computing For Dummies gets you up to speed fast, clarifying your Cloud options, showing you where can save you time and money, giving you ways to frame your decisions, and helping you avoid weeks of research. In a friendly, easy-to-follow style, Cloud Computing For Dummies, 2nd Edition demystifies the Cloud's virtual landscape, breaking up a complex and multi-layered topic into simple explanations that will make the various benefits clear and ultimately guide you toward making the most appropriate choices for your organization. Know the business case for the Cloud Understand hybrid and multi-cloud options Develop your Cloud strategy Get tips on best practices The Cloud is everywhere, and it can deliver amazing benefits to our lives and businesses. Get a much clearer vision of exactly how with Cloud Computing For Dummies-and you'll begin to see that the sky really is the limit!

About Judith S. Hurwitz

Daniel Kirsch, Managing Director of Hurwitz & Associates, is a thought leader, researcher, author, and consultant in cloud, AI, and security. Judith Hurwitz, President of Hurwitz & Associates, is a consultant, thought leader, and coauthor of 10 books including Augmented Intelligence, Cognitive Computing and Big Data Analytics, and Hybrid Cloud for Dummies

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 2 Beyond the Book 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Understanding Cloud Concepts 5 Chapter 1: Understanding the Cloud 7 Looking at the Ecosystem of Cloud Computing 8 Understanding Cloud Concepts 8 The public cloud 9 The private cloud 10 The hybrid and multicloud model 10 Cloud Computing Elements: Resource Pools/Cloud Models and Services 11 Cloud delivery models 13 The computing resources life cycle 14 Understanding Self-Service Provisioning and Elasticity 15 Establishing a Dynamic Life Cycle across Workloads and Data 16 Management Services 17 The Changing Role of the Data Center 17 Evolution of the data center into a private cloud 18 Seeing how the public cloud fits 19 Knowing when the private cloud shines 20 Chapter 2: Embracing the Business Imperative 21 Understanding IT Transformation 22 Escaping the IT Legacy Trap 22 Preparing for the Cloud 23 Building for Innovation 24 The Business Imperatives 25 Optimizing Your Existing Business 26 Modern Development and Deployment Strategies 27 Revisiting Your Business Model 28 Transforming the Business Model 29 Part 2: Examining Architectural Considerations 31 Chapter 3: Architectural Considerations for the Cloud Environment 33 Rethinking the Type of Constituents Your Cloud Serves 34 Putting the Pieces Together 35 Planning for Deployment 36 Latency: Performance matters 37 Security: Planning in context 39 Governance: Getting the right balance 39 Managing colocation 39 Creating flexibility in the model 40 Setting the Right Policies and Business Rules 40 Navigating the Choices in a Hybrid World 41 Optimizing for Workloads 41 Supporting a Dynamic Life Cycle 42 Chapter 4: Managing a Hybrid and Multicloud Environment 43 What Are You Managing? 44 Managing SaaS Applications 44 Optimizing SaaS Management 46 Managing External Cloud Resources 47 Visibility and control of external resources 47 The importance of self-service 49 Service level agreements (SLAs) 49 Addressing Poor Cloud and Computing Behaviors 50 Managing Internal Cloud Resources 51 Managing a hybrid cloud environment 52 Understanding the role of internal SLAs 52 Managing Internal Services 53 Supporting cloud customers 53 Monitoring internal and external systems 53 Constructing dashboards 56 Managing External Services 56 DevOps and deployment to public clouds 57 External system monitoring 57 Application and service life cycles 57 The Future of Multicloud Management 58 Chapter 5: Standards in a Multicloud World 59 What Are Standards? 59 Evolution of Standards 60 Categories of Cloud-Related Standards 61 Interoperability 62 Portability 64 Security 65 Organizations Building Momentum around Standards 66 Cloud Security Alliance 66 Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) 67 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 68 Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC) 68 The Open Group 69 Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) 69 Vertical groups 70 The Impact of Standards on the Multicloud 70 Chapter 6: A Closer Look at Cloud Services 73 The Importance of Modularity 74 Discovering Why Services Matter in the Cloud 74 Explaining Microservices 75 The imperative to manage microservices 76 Containers 77 Kubernetes 78 Cataloging services 80 Defining Cloud Native Applications 80 Moving from virtual machines to cloud native 81 Creating innovation 82 Differentiating cloud native applications 82 Communicating Using APIs 83 Setting the Stage for Cloud-Enabled Applications 84 Part 3: Understanding Cloud Models 87 Chapter 7: Introducing All Types of Clouds 89 Understanding Public Clouds 89 Commercial public clouds 90 Open social community clouds 92 Open technical community clouds 94 Government clouds 94 Looking at Private Clouds 95 Privately owned and managed clouds 95 Appliances based on public cloud offerings 96 Commercial private cloud 97 Exploring Hybrid Clouds 97 Understanding the Continuum of the Cloud 98 Selecting Multicloud for Choice, Efficiency, and Performance 99 Thinking about the Integration Imperative 101 Types of integration 102 Responsibility for integrations 103 Integration at the service level 103 Integration at the data level 104 Integration at the application level 105 Chapter 8: Using Infrastructure as a Service 107 Understanding IaaS 107 Exploring the Key Components of Public Cloud IaaS 109 The hardware architecture of public clouds 110 Virtualization 111 Elastic resources and services 113 Self-service provisioning 114 Service level agreements (SLA) 115 Metering, billing, and licensing 115 Costs 117 Getting to Know Prominent IaaS Cloud Providers 118 Discovering the Key Components of Private Cloud IaaS 119 Using IaaS in Multicloud 120 Chapter 9: Using Software as a Service 121 Understanding the Characteristics of SaaS 122 Multi-tenancy and its benefits 123 The need for cloud native SaaS 126 Understanding SaaS Economics 127 Figuring Out How SaaS Fits into the Multicloud World 128 Using SaaS as a Platform 130 Discovering who builds applications on SaaS platforms 130 Developing on a SaaS vendor's platform 131 Looking at examples of SaaS platforms 132 Chapter 10: Standing on Platform as a Service 135 Discovering the Business Value of PaaS 135 Identifying the Characteristics of Platform as a Service 136 Managing the Software Development and Deployment Life Cycle 138 Managing an Agile Development Environment 139 Defining the Next Generation of Middleware in the Cloud 141 Exploring Types of PaaS Platforms 141 Public PaaS 142 Private PaaS 143 Open PaaS 144 Reaping the Business Benefits of PaaS 144 Part 4: Managing in a Multicloud World 147 Chapter 11: Planning for DevOps in the Cloud 149 Entering a New Era of DevOps 149 The importance of agile development 150 Transforming security 150 Examining Changes for DevOps in the Cloud 151 Discovering the Value of Demand-Driven Applications 152 Examining the Role of CI/CD in Agile Development 153 Continuous integration 153 Continuous testing 153 Continuous delivery 154 Continuous deployment 154 Exploring the Role of Opinionated Continuous Delivery 154 Understanding the Challenges to CI/CD Adoption 155 Continuous Delivery and the Importance of a DevOps Culture 155 The Challenge of CI/CD in the Cloud Era 156 Clouds, Containers, and Microservices 157 Defining Cloud Native Applications 157 Achieving Resilience 158 Discovering Reusable Services 159 Moving from VMs to Cloud Native 159 Open-Source Cloud Native Applications 159 Differentiating Cloud Native Applications 160 The Foundation of Microservices 161 The Imperative to Manage Microservices 162 The Value of the Container Model 162 The Role of APIs 162 Chapter 12: Managing Multicloud Workloads 165 What is a Workload? 166 All workloads aren't the same 166 Workloads not suited for the cloud 168 Resource abstraction and workloads 169 Workload Management 170 Workload Complexities in the Multicloud Environment 172 Operationalized workloads 172 APIs: Keys to cloud resources 173 Workload Portability 175 Chapter 13: Managing Data Storage in the Cloud 177 Understanding Cloud Storage Fundamentals 178 Cloud storage access protocols 178 Delivery options for cloud storage 181 Functions of cloud storage 182 Benefits of cloud storage 182 Deploying Hybrid Cloud Storage 183 Interfaces 183 Security 183 Reliability 184 Business continuity 184 Reporting and chargeback 184 Management 184 Performance/latency 184 Data and network speed 185 Planning for Cloud Growth and Change 186 Understanding your data 186 Devising a growth strategy 186 Choosing a provider 187 Part 5: Developing Your Cloud Strategy 189 Chapter 14: Managing and Integrating Data in the Cloud 191 Ensuring Trustworthy Data 191 Controlling customer data privacy 192 Assessing cloud data risks 192 Securing data in the cloud 193 Integrating Data across Environments 196 Three integration scenarios 196 Options for cloud data integration 198 Managing Big Data in the Cloud 200 Master data management 200 Big data characteristics 200 Supporting an Analytics Strategy 201 Big data analytics 202 Other cloud analytics 203 Talking to Providers about Data Control 203 Chapter 15: Promoting Cloud Security and Governance 207 Exploring the Risks of Operating in the Cloud 208 Cloud provider risks 210 End-user risks 212 Developing a Secure Hybrid Environment 212 Assessing your current state 213 Assessing your cloud vendor 213 Digging deeper into identity management 216 Understanding data protection options 217 Sharing security responsibility with your cloud provider 218 Creating a Cloud Governance Strategy 219 Understanding governance risks 220 Implementing a governance strategy 221 Making governance work 222 Measuring and monitoring governance performance 222 Chapter 16: Breaking Down Cloud Economics 225 Balancing Costs with Requirements 225 Striking the Right Balance of Environments for a Hybrid Cloud 226 Reaping the Economic Benefit of the Cloud 228 Filling the need for capacity 229 Selecting a SaaS for common applications 231 Selecting a massively scaled application 232 When it's not black and white 233 Understanding the Economics of the Data Center 234 Evaluating Costs in the Hybrid Environment 236 Chapter 17: Planning Your Cloud Strategy 241 At the Beginning: The Move to the Cloud 242 Starting the Plan 242 Stage 1: Assess your current IT strategy 243 Stage 2: Imagine the future 244 Stage 3: Explore what's out there 244 Stage 4: Create a hybrid cloud strategy plan 245 Stage 5: Plan for implementation 245 Stages of Strategy Planning: An Overview 246 Focusing the Plan on Providing Services to Your Constituents 247 Cloud service consumer services 247 Comprehensive cloud provider services 247 Cloud service creation services 248 Supporting a Successful Customer Experience 248 Supporting innovation 248 Defining the optimal customer experience 249 Optimizing for workloads 249 Supporting a Dynamic Life Cycle 249 Abstracting Complexity in the Cloud 250 Balancing Costs and Benefits 250 Defining the purpose of your cloud services 250 Taking a holistic approach 251 Part 6: The Part of Tens 253 Chapter 18: Ten Cloud Resources 255 Standards Organizations 255 Consortiums and Councils 256 Open-Source Offerings 257 The Cloud Security Alliance 258 The Cloud Storage Initiative 258 Vendor Sites 258 Cloud Computing Conferences 258 CIO.gov 259 Open Data Center Alliance 259 Chapter 19: Ten Cloud Do's and Don'ts 261 Do Plan for Cloud Native 261 Do Plan for Data Consistency and Manageability 262 Do Decide and Plan for Cloud Services 262 Do Have a Service Management Plan 263 Do Plan for Portability 263 Do Plan for Security 264 Do Execute on an Overall Hybrid Cloud Plan 264 Don't Rely on only a Single Vendor 264 Don't Over-Invest in Licenses 265 Don't Overlook the Need to Manage Infrastructure 265 Don't Leave Your Data Center Alone 266 Don't Ignore the Service Level Agreement 266 Do Move Forward and Don't Look Back 266 Glossary 267 Index 281

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GOR013446309
9781119546658
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Cloud Computing For Dummies by Judith S. Hurwitz
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John Wiley & Sons Inc
2020-09-25
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