Moving to the cloud [electronic book] : developing apps in the new world of cloud computing / Dinkar Sitaram and Geetha Manjunath ; David R. Deily, technical editor.

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Moving to the Cloud provides an in-depth introduction to cloud computing models, cloud platforms, application development paradigms, concepts and technologies. The authors particularly examine cloud platforms that are in use today. They also describe programming APIs and compare the technologies that underlie them. The basic foundations needed for developing both client-side and cloud-side applications covering compute/storage scaling, data parallelism, virtualization, MapReduce, RIA, SaaS and Mashups are covered. Approaches to address key challenges of a cloud infrastructure, such as scalability, availability, multi-tenancy, security and management are addressed. The book also lays out the key open issues and emerging cloud standards that will drive the continuing evolution of cloud computing.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Infrastructure as a Service
• Chapter 3 Platform as a Service
• Chapter 4 Application as a Service
• Chapter 5 Paradigms for Developing Cloud Applications
• Chapter 6 Addressing the Cloud Challenges
• Chapter 7 Security
• Chapter 8 Managing the Cloud Infrastructure
• Chapter 9 Related Technologies
• Chapter 10 Future trends and Research Directions

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Chief Technologist, Hewlett Packard, Systems Technology and Software Division, Bangalore, India. He is responsible for new product and technology development with a focus on storage systems, self-healing and automated management. Dr. Sitaram is also responsible for University Relations, and Innovation activities at HP. He earned the PhD in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin, Madison; his R&D efforts have resulted in over a dozen granted US patents. He is co-author of Multimedia Servers: Applications, Environments and Design. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.

Senior Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Labs, Bangalore, India, where her research focuses on Personalization, Ontologies and Semantic Web. She is currently leading a research project on novel cloud services for simplifying web access. She obtained the M.E in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Her research has led to multiple US patents and international conference papers.