Cloud Computing

<i>Cloud Computing: Business Trends and Technologies</i> provides a broad introduction to Cloud computing technologies and their applications to IT and telecommunications businesses (i.e., the network function virtualization, NFV). To this end, the book is expected to serve as a textbook in a graduate course on Cloud computing.<br /><br />The book examines the business cases and then concentrates on the technologies necessary for supporting them. In the process, the book addresses the principles of – as well as the known problems with – the underlying technologies, such as virtualization, data communications, network and operations management, security and identity management. It introduces, through open-source case studies (based on OpenStack), an extensive illustration of lifecycle management.<br /><br />The book also looks at the existing and emerging standards, demonstrating their respective relation to each topic.<br /><br />Overall, this is an authoritative textbook on this emerging and still-developing discipline, which<br /><br />•Guides the reader through basic concepts, to current practices, to state-of-the-art applications.<br /><br />•Considers technical standards bodies involved in Cloud computing standardization.<br /><br />•Is written by innovation experts in operating systems and data communications, each with over 20 years’ experience in business, research, and teaching.