CLOUD COMPUTING: A Complete Guide on the Concepts and Design Of Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Virtualization, Business Models, Mobile, Security and More)

Cloud computing brings together technical choices and business decisions: what to move online, which service model fits, and how an organization can evaluate providers and infrastructure. Jason Hoffman’s introduction ranges from foundational cloud concepts to company adoption, specialist roles and platform selection.

Understand the cloud service models

The book explains SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, then broadens the picture to XaaS and related models such as iPaaS and DaaS. It also distinguishes public, private and hybrid clouds from other approaches, including community, distributed and multicloud environments. This overview helps readers compare the different ways cloud resources and services can be delivered.

Explore services, security and emerging areas

Further topics include networking, storage, archiving, databases, analytics and security. The contents also touch on auditing, compliance, encryption, firewalls, identity and access management, and threat detection. Emerging categories covered include artificial intelligence and machine learning services, blockchain and the Internet of Things.

Connect technology choices to organizational needs

For readers interested in adoption inside a company, chapters consider cloud’s business case, how to present it, and how to approach assessment, project planning and ongoing operation. The book also surveys cloud-specialist skills, cloud architect roles and certifications.

A broad introductory overview

The closing material turns to cloud-computing trends identified for 2021 and public cloud platforms and infrastructure, including guidance on evaluating solutions. Readers looking for a wide-ranging starting point across cloud terminology, organizational use and platform choices will find those themes gathered in one volume.