The Little Book of Cloud Computing, 2013 Edition

by Lars Nielsen

NOTE: Although we are keeping the 2013 edition of this book "in print" for those who might want it, the new, much-expanded (to 29,000 words) 2014 edition is available as of November 16, 2013. The book has been thoroughly revised to bring it up-to-date with the latest industry developments, and also to address reader comments and suggestions for improvement and broadening of coverage. Expansion includes an elegant and user-friendly introduction to Hadoop for Big Data. Price has not changed.

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Here it is ... the bestseller now revised and expanded to reveal the most important Cloud innovations for 2013, including key Big Data tools from Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft and many other industry leaders.

This concise, jargon-free volume fully explains the state-of-the-art (and the state of the industry) in Cloud Computing.

Using a completely user-friendly approach that assumes no prior knowledge, noted systems developer Lars Nielsen describes the most vital fundamentals of Cloud Computing - that powerful approach to enterprise systems by which today's smart organizations cut costs while still maintaining access to all the digital capacity they need.

Nielsen explains tested, effective strategies for maximizing the latest Cloud Computing tools and economies, putting them to work for your organization. He also provides a vivid snapshot of the major industry players, surveys current trends in the Cloud marketplace, and lays out vital issues of Cloud security.

This new edition incorporates coverage of Amazon Elastic MapReduce and PowerShell, Google BigQuery and Google SQL, IBM Platform Symphony, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Big Data, Microsoft's HDInsight, and much more.


CONTENTS: Introduction * The Basics * Technology and Business Fundamentals * Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Including Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR), RedShift - a Data Warehouse Solution Bringing Analytics “To the Masses,” - and PowerShell * IBM Cloud Services - Including IBM Platform Symphony for Breakthrough Hadoop Results and Optimal MapR Implementation * Microsoft and the Cloud – Including HDInsight for Big Data * Google and the Cloud - Including BigQuery for Gaining Real-Time Big Data Insights, Google Compute Engine for Quickly Crunching Big Data, and Google SQL * Red Hat - Including Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Big Data, OpenShift and Other Goodies * Cloud in a Box – The Pre-Fab Track to a Robust Private Cloud * Apple and Other Purveyors of Consumer Cloud Services * VMware, Cetas, EMC, Greenplum, The Pivotal Initiative and Big Data * Hewlett-Packard, Oracle/Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Virtual Computing Environment Coalition/Acadia, Rackspace and GoGrid * Cloud Security, the Need for Data Loss Prevention (DLP), And Various Other Fun Stuff

Genres: Nonfiction

114 pages, Kindle Edition

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.