Above the Clouds
Kevin T McDonald
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Above the Clouds: Managing Risk in the World of Cloud Computing
By Kevin T McDonald
February 2010
Above the Clouds: Managing Risk in the World of Cloud Computing acts as a primer and strategic guide to identify Cloud Computing best practices and associated risks, and reduce the latter to acceptable levels. From software as a service (SaaS) to replacing the entire IT infrastructure, the author serves as an educator, guide and strategist, from runway to getting the organization above the clouds. Valuable tips on how to choose your provider of Cloud Services are also offered.
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By Jeff Barr
November 2009
Authored by Amazon's Senior Manager of Cloud Computing Solutions this book teaches you how to host your website, applications or data on the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud. It Covers file and database storage, server management, querying services, application management, performance and maintenance, scaling and load balancing, and much more. This books straightforward, practical advice and step-by-step guides will have you running your website on the cloud in no time.
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By Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Marcia Kaufman & Fern Halper
November 2009
Cloud Computing can be difficult to understand at first, but the cost-saving possibilities are great and many companies are getting on board. This straightforward, plain-English guide clears up the confusion and helps you get your plan in place. You'll learn how cloud computing enables you to run a more green IT infrastructure, and access technology-enabled services from the Internet without having to understand, manage, or invest in the technology infrastructure that supports them. You'll also find out what you need to consider when implementing a plan, how to handle security issues, and more. Cloud Computing for Dummies gets straight to the point, providing the practical information you need to know.
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By David S Linthicum
October 2009
Massive, disruptive change is coming to IT as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), SOA, mashups, Web 2.0, and cloud computing truly come of age. David S Linthicum explains why the days of managing IT organizations as private fortresses will disappear as IT becomes a global community. He demonstrates how to run IT when critical elements of customer, product, and business data and processes extend far beyond the firewall - and how to use all the information to deliver real-time answers about everything from an individual customer's credit to the location of a specific cargo container. This book offers a clear assessment of the challenges associated with this new world - and offers a step-by-step program for getting there with maximum return on investment and minimum risk. If you're ready to begin driving real competitive advantages from cloud computing, this book is the start-to-finish roadmap you need to make it happen.
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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of how Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company and Revolutionized an Industry
By Marc Benioff
October 2009
How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world's fastest growing software company in less than a decade? For the first time, Marc Benioff, the visionary founder, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, tells how he and his team created and used new business, technology, and philanthropic models tailored to this time of extraordinary change. Showing how salesforce.com not only survived the dotcom implosion, but went on to define itself as the leader of the cloud computing revolution and spark a $46-billion dollar industry, Benioff's story will help business leaders and entrepreneurs stand out, innovate better, and grow faster in any economic climate. In Behind the Cloud, Benioff shares the strategies that have inspired employees, turned customers into evangelists, leveraged an ecosystem of partners, and allowed innovation to flourish.
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Cloud Security & Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance
By Subra Kumaraswamy, Tim Mather & Shahed Latif
September 2009
You may regard cloud computing as an ideal way for your company to control IT costs, but do you know how private and secure this service really is? Not many people do. With Cloud Security and Privacy, you'll learn what's at stake when you trust your data to the cloud, and what you can do to keep your virtual infrastructure and web applications secure. This book offers you sound advice from three well-known authorities in the tech security world.
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By Stephen Parker & Ian Gotts
August 2009
Smart Questions is a series of books written by Domain Experts for Smart People. The books give you some background on the subject. But what makes these books really valuable is they provide a list of important questions that could save you a whole heap of time, cost and heartache. Whether you want the Smart Questions for yourself or as a means to drive thinking within your customers, these books are a great tool and a valuable reference guide. The Smart Questions approach allows domain experts to become authors. But they go further by connecting the authors with a wider community allowing them to contribute and improve the questions in the books. A form of crowdsourcing.
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By Stephen Parker & Ian Gotts
August 2009
Smart Questions is a series of books written by Domain Experts for Smart People. The books give you some background on the subject. But what makes these books really valuable is they provide a list of important questions that could save you a whole heap of time, cost and heartache. Whether you want the Smart Questions for yourself or as a means to drive thinking within your customers, these books are a great tool and a valuable reference guide. The Smart Questions approach allows domain experts to become authors. But they go further by connecting the authors with a wider community allowing them to contribute and improve the questions in the books. A form of crowdsourcing.
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By Jon Sapir
June 2009
This book is a guide to building information systems at the edge of chaos - that sweet pot of productive change, where front line workers have the capability to pursue their own solutions with minimal central control. The advent of cloud computing presents an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to revolutionize the way in which they build information systems, and in so doing, transform their business. How do we prepare our organizations to not only survive, but to take advantage of the opportunities that rapid change inevitably brings? This book focuses on the role of information systems in this endeavor. Information systems will become increasingly more critical to the success of every enterprise. How they are built and how they are used should therefore be foremost on the mind of anyone responsible for the well-being of an organization.
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By Melvin B Greer
May 2009
Over the last few years, industry has begun developing a model of IT known as Cloud Computing, which includes Software as a Service, and it has reached an inflection point. This book provides a guide to the Cloud Computing IT model with a solid overview of concepts, business aspects, technical implications, benefits, challenges, and trends. The Author skillfully lays out a game plan for government and commercial entities alike looking to stay relevant in this burgeoning business paradigm. Readers will discover new ways of reducing costs, creating greater efficiencies, and ultimately providing long-term value through business transformation.
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By Peter Fingar
February 2009
In Dot.Cloud business strategy expert and former CIO, Peter Fingar, explains the main ideas of cloud computing and brings together the ideas of the movers and shakers who are actively building the Cloud. This book is about the Business of Cloud Computing and how it portends for business, transformation in the ways companies are managed, and business models for the 21st century. The Author discusses how companies carry out their work in the Cloud instead of office buildings and skyscrapers, and how they manage their business processes in the Cloud. The book also talks about human interactions in the Cloud, and about the end of management and the rise of self organizing, self-managed Bioteams.
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Cloud
Timothy Chou
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By Timothy Chou
January 2009
Based on a series of lectures at Stanford University “Cloud” discusses cloud computing from a business perspective. It serves as an excellent, easy-to-read, introduction to cloud computing for anyone who builds, sells, purchases or invests in applications or infrastructure delivered as a cloud service. The book is full of examples and stories from many of the leaders in the field. You'll be amused to even find Brad and Angelina in the book.
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By Amy Wohl
October 2008
This book is both an overview and a series of recommendations for ISVs, platform vendors, and customers who want to participate in the SaaS market. The centerpiece of the book is 22 interviews Wohl conducted with market participants, illustrating the state of the SaaS market and its direction. Author Amy Wohl has been following the SaaS market since its inception and has filled the book with advice based on her consulting practice and her observations of the industry. The book includes both a brief history of the market and its precedents, a definition of cloud computing and its relationship to SaaS, and a discussion of their likely futures.
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By Timothy Chou
September 2004
Even technology industry analysts and seasoned IT executives have difficulty putting a figure on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of today's enterprise application solutions. What makes the equation so tricky is the sheer number of variables that must be factored in, many of which cannot be lined up in a neat column and reconciled, such as issues of security, availability, performance, problem resolution and change management. The End of Software: Transforming Your Business for the On Demand Future, by Dr. Timothy Chou, is a groundbreaking book for business managers and executives that challenges conventional approaches to business software, and proposes new alternatives to managing and maintaining the systems that companies depend on.
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