The official guide from EMC, the world's largest data storage company Cloud computing allows enterprises to get their applications up and running faster, improves manageability, reduces upfront infrastructure costs, and enables IT to quickly adjust resources as business demands fluctuate. Mastery of cloud infrastructure enhances an IT professional's value to the organization. Written by the team at EMC Education Services, this text is a complete cloud technologist course, covering cloud deployment and service models, virtualized infrastructure, cloud service creation and management and the key considerations in migrating to cloud computing. It covers the technologies required to build virtualized, and cloud data center environments, including compute, storage, and networking, as well as to implement desktop and application virtualization, cloud services, business continuity, and security. You'll learn key considerations and steps in transforming your data center and your organization to the cloud. And if you choose to pursue the EMC Cloud Associate (EMCCLA) certification, this reference will help you prepare.