Chapter 8

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

—Rene Daumal

Information in this chapter:

• Cloud Security

• Unified Computing System

• Cloud Management

• Cloud IaaS: The Big Picture

• Summary

Introduction

The sheer determination required to closely follow the past seven chapters is itself an amazing feat. Kudos if you have come this ...

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