Cloud Computing

Acknowledgments

A book of this scope and size could not have been written without help from many people. We acknowledge much stimulation that came from early discussions with Markus Hofmann who headed the Bell Labs research effort in the Cloud. We have had incisive discussions on various topics of networking with Mark Clougherty, Vijay Gurbani, and Dimitri Stiliadis.

We have been much influenced and supported by David Amzallag (then CTO of CloudBand), particularly on the topic of operations and management.

Our first steps in addressing Cloud security were made together with Doug Varney, Jack Kozik, and Herbert Ristock (now with Genesys). We owe much of our understanding of the subject to our CloudBand colleagues—Ranny Haibi, Chris Deloddere, Mark Hooper, and Avi Vachnis. Sivan Barzilay has reviewed Chapter 7, to which she has contributed a figure; we also owe to her our understanding of TOSCA.

Peter Busschbach has reviewed Chapter 3 and provided insightful comments.

A significant impetus for this book came from teaching, and the book is intended to be an assigned text in a graduate course on Cloud Computing. Such a course, taught in the Stevens Institute of Technology, has been developed with much encouragement and help from Professor Daniel Duchamp (Director of Department of Computer Science), and many useful suggestions from Professor Dominic Duggan. Important insight, reflected in the course and in the book, came from graduate students who had served over the years as teaching ...