Many new entrants to the IT industry have directly begun working on cloud platforms without a background in data center solutions and infrastructure architecture. This book gives readers the required conceptual clarity on IT infrastructure architecture to develop and maintain solutions both for data center and • Describes an infrastructure architecting process based on industry standards. • Focusses on the essentials of Compute, Network, Storage, Backup/Restore, Disaster Recovery, Monitoring, and Security from an architecture perspective. • Caters to students, developers, architects & designers, CXOs who need a good understanding of the concepts of infrastructure architecture. • Provides many references to industry and academic literature at the end of every chapter to guide anyone who wishes to go deeper.