Virtualization enables the high utilization and high efficiencies associated with cloud computing. This technology approach is used through the computing stack. This section provides the background needed for the architect to understand how to use compute, network, data, and application virtualization.
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Contributors
- Packt Upsell
- Preface
- Prologue
- What is Cloud Computing?
- Cloud computing history
- Cloud computing definition
- Essential characteristics of cloud computing
- Cloud computing operational models
- Cloud service models
- Cloud washing
- Cloud computing taxonomy
- Summary
- Governance and Change Management
- Design Considerations
- Business Drivers, Metrics, and Use Cases
- Architecture Executive Decisions
- Invert for insight – process
- Real-time collaboration
- Express challenges, not requirements
- Automate and enable
- Stop talking technology – Strategy
- Economics, not pricing – Economics
- Solutions, not servers – Technology
- Lower costs can be bad for business – Risk
- Adoption is optional – Culture
- Technology for the executives
- Summary
- Architecting for Transition
- User characteristics
- Application design
- Application migration
- Application workloads
- Application categories
- Application dependencies
- Use of APIs
- Technical architecture requirements
- Legal/regulatory/security requirements
- Business continuity and disaster recovery – BCDR
- Economics
- Organizational assessment
- Summary
- Baseline Cloud Architectures
- Solution Reference Architectures
- Cloud Environment Key Tenets and Virtualization
- Cloud Clients and Key Cloud Services
- Operational Requirements
- Application programming interface
- Common infrastructure file formats – VMs
- Data and application federation
- Deployment
- Federated identity
- Identity management
- Portability and interoperability
- Lifecycle management
- Location awareness
- Metering and monitoring
- Open client
- Availability
- Privacy
- Resiliency
- Auditability
- Performance
- Management and governance
- Transaction and concurrency across clouds
- SLAs and benchmarks
- Provider exit
- Security
- Security controls
- Distributed computing reference model
- Summary
- CSP Performance
- Cloud Application Development
- Data Security
- Application Security
- Risk Management and Business Continuity
- Hands-On Lab 1 – Basic Cloud Design (Single Server)
- Hands-On Lab 2 – Advanced Cloud Design Insight
- Hands-On Lab 3 – Optimizing Current State (12 Months Later)
- Cloud Architecture – Lessons Learned
- Epilogue
- Other Books You May Enjoy
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