ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Cloud computing, and the enterprise appetite for Cloud adoption, have both matured since I completed the first edition of this book back in 2012. Cloud years are apparently like dog years; that being the case, this second edition has required substantial updates to bring the content up to date. I am extremely grateful to a number of peers for their review comments on the revised manuscript, including:

Ian Bramhill, John Sorzano, Paul Ward, Koby Kulater, Nasir Razzaq, James Relph, Alex Stezycki, Simon Hill, John Ward and Kevin Watkins.

I am also grateful to my ever (almost) patient wife Lynne for her review of the text from a general readability perspective, as well as the expert editing offered by IT Governance Publishing.

Despite the efforts of all of the above, there is always the chance that I have erred in this document – any such technical errors are purely my own!

Finally, many thanks to you, the reader. Books would be very lonely places if left all by themselves; I hope you find something of value within these pages.