Book description
Despite the buzz surrounding the cloud computing, only a small percentage of organizations have actually deployed this new style of IT—so far. If you're planning your long-term cloud strategy, this practical book provides insider knowledge and actionable real-world lessons regarding planning, design, operations, security, and application transformation. This book teaches business and technology managers how to transition their organization's traditional IT to cloud computing. Rather than yet another book trying to sell or convince readers on the benefits of clouds, this book provides guidance, lessons learned, and best practices on how to design, deploy, operate, and secure an enterprise cloud based on real-world experience.
Author James Bond provides useful guidance and best-practice checklists based on his field experience with real customers and cloud providers. You'll view cloud services from the perspective of a consumer and as an owner/operator of an enterprise private or hybrid cloud, and learn valuable lessons from successful and less-than-successful organization use-case scenarios. This is the information every CIO needs in order to make the business and technical decisions to finally execute on their journey to cloud computing.
- Get updated trends and definitions in cloud computing, deployment models, and for building or buying cloud services
- Discover challenges in cloud operations and management not foreseen by early adopters
- Use real-world lessons to plan and build an enterprise private or hybrid cloud
- Learn how to assess, port, and migrate legacy applications to the cloud
- Identify security threats and vulnerabilities unique to the cloud
- Employ a cloud management system for your enterprise (private or multi-provider hybrid) cloud ecosystem
- Understand the challenges for becoming an IT service broker leveraging the power of the cloud
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Planning and Architecture
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2. Operational Transformation
- Transforming Managed Services
- Beginning the Cloud Transition
- Virtualization
- Automation
- Providing Customers Transparency to the Cloud
- Accessing Cloud Services
- Data Sovereignty and On-Shore Support Operations
- The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Operational Process Changes
- Using Existing Operational Staff
- Operational Transformation Best Practices
- 3. Deploying Your Cloud
- 4. Application Transformation
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5. Billing and Procurement
- Capital Versus Operational Expenses
- Concerns with “Build It and They Will Come”
- Online Ordering and Approval Workflow
- Financial Tracking and Billing
- Legal and Contract Agreements
- Licensing
- The Current Cloud Industry: A Summary of the Leading Providers and Integrators
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Billing and Procurement Best Practices
- Capital versus Operating Expenses
- Build It and They Will Come
- Online Ordering
- Procurement Process for Ordering Cloud Services
- Approval Workflow
- Fixed and Variable Pricing
- Automatic Elasticity or Scaling
- Cloud Billing versus Accounting Systems
- Detailed Cloud Service Cost Models
- Legal and Service Agreements
- 6. Cloud Security
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7. Cloud Management
- Understanding the Cloud Management System Architecture
- Orchestrating Automated Actions
- Creating Reports and Dashboards
- Managing Systems and Services
- Providing Self-Service Control Panels
- Software Applications and Packaging
- Cloud Management Platforms: The Build Versus Buy Decision
- Open Source Cloud Platforms and Industry Standards
- Cloud Management Best Practices
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8. Hybrid and Cloud Brokering
- What Is a Cloud Broker
- Key Hybrid and Brokering Terminology
- Hybrid Cloud Versus Cloud Broker
- The NIST Cloud Broker Architecture
- Cloud Broker Functional Architecture
- Governance
- Data Portability
- Evaluating and Selecting a Cloud Broker
- Challenges of Cloud Brokering
- The Future of Hybrid and Cloud Brokering
- Hybrid and Cloud Brokering Best Practices
- 9. Industry Trends and the Future of Cloud Computing
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Enterprise Cloud
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2015
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491907849
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