The Little Book of Cloud Computing, 2013 Edition: Including Coverage of Big Data Tools

by Lars Nielsen

Explores strategies for maximizing the latest cloud computing tools and economies, putting them to work for an organization, and provides a snapshot of the major industry players, surveys current trends in the cloud marketplace, and lays out vital issues of cloud security.

Genres: Nonfiction

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 11, 2011

Reviews

[Kapileshwar Patil · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is the very best book

[Rick · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a decent overview of the services out there, in one way. LIke it's good to sort of get your head around what Red Hat or VMWare is offering, and I have to say, Windows Azure seemed strangely kind of awesome. But in another way it's not particularly useful. Like it doesn't really help you understand what you can DO in the cloud, except only in abstract terms. But really its biggest failing is its over-reliance on PR releases and quotes. It feels very cobbled together. And then it sort of advertises that it was updated in the wake of the amazon crash, but all it really did was tell you there was a crash, so, hey, watch out!

I dunno, it's probably me. I am looking for a specific type of cloud computing book, but everything I can find is either too zeitgeisty, academic, or "move your business into the cloud" ish. This one is mostly the latter.

[Josh · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is largely a compilation of what cloud service vendors say about themselves. It's useful in the sense that the author has taken the trouble to identify the services and piece together their collateral. It makes no attempt to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses or appropriate uses of the different approaches or of cloud computing as a whole.

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you want a general non technical overview of what popular public clouds have to offer and don't feel like googling them one at a time... then this is the book for you.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good overview.