Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice

by Dan C. Marinescu

Cloud Theory and Practice provides students and IT professionals with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. Beginning with a discussion of parallel computing and architectures and distributed systems, the book turns to contemporary cloud infrastructures, how they are being deployed at leading companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple, and how they can be applied in fields such as healthcare, banking and science. The volume also examines how to successfully deploy a cloud application across the enterprise using virtualization, resource management and the right amount of networking support, including content delivery networks and storage area networks. Developers will find a complete introduction to application development provided on a variety of platforms.

415 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Sumit · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some concepts tough to understand for beginners.

[WiseB · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comprehensive knowledge on cloud computing ... from ecosystem, providers to practical detailed description relating to this domain covering concurrency; parallel vs distributed; access & interconnection; storage; resource management; virtualization; security; applications & development and cloud Big Data etc.

[Alexander Salimonov · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book describes fundamentals of computing theory and real world issues and solutions which are very important for large scale infrastructures. Here is you can find enough information how CPU works, how is designed motherboard for a server, what is matter for large distributed application. Everybody should read it who works on distributed data processing applications or computation services.

[Antonio Sacin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very technical and low level. Definitely not an intro to the topic.