Accelerating Business and Mission Success with Cloud Computing.
Key Features
A step-by-step guide that will practically guide you through implementing Cloud computing services effectively and efficiently.
Learn to choose the most ideal Cloud service model, and adopt appropriate Cloud design considerations for your organization.
Leverage Cloud computing methodologies to successfully develop a cost-effective Cloud environment successfully.
Book DescriptionCloud adoption is a core component of digital transformation. Scaling the IT environment, making it resilient, and reducing costs are what organizations want. Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions presents and explains critical Cloud solution design considerations and technology decisions required to choose and deploy the right Cloud service and deployment models, based on your business and technology service requirements.
This book starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing and its architectural concepts. It then walks you through Cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), deployment models (public, private, community, and hybrid) and implementation options (Enterprise, MSP, and CSP) to explain and describe the key considerations and challenges organizations face during cloud migration. Later, this book delves into how to leverage DevOps, Cloud-Native, and Serverless architectures in your Cloud environment and presents industry best practices for scaling your Cloud environment. Finally, this book addresses (in depth) managing essential cloud technology service components such as data storage, security controls, and disaster recovery. By the end of this book, you will have mastered all the design considerations and operational trades required to adopt Cloud services, no matter which cloud service provider you choose.
What you will learn
Manage changes in the digital transformation and cloud transition process
Design and build architectures that support specific business cases
Design, modify, and aggregate baseline cloud architectures
Familiarize yourself with cloud application security and cloud computing security threats
Design and architect small, medium, and large cloud computing solutions
Who this book is forIf you are an IT Administrator, Cloud Architect, or a Solution Architect keen to benefit from cloud adoption for your organization, then this book is for you.
Small business owners, managers, or consultants will also find this book useful.
No prior knowledge of Cloud computing is needed.
Author Biography:
Kevin L. Jackson is a globally recognized cloud computing expert, technology thought leader, and CEO/founder of GovCloud Network, LLC. Mr. Jackson's commercial experience includes being vice president of J.P. Morgan Chase and worldwide sales executive at IBM. He has deployed mission applications to the US Intelligence Community cloud computing environment (IC ITE), and he has authored and published several cloud computing courses and books. He is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP). Scott Goessling is the COO/CTO for Burstorm and helped create the world's first automated Cloud Solution Design platform. He has lived and worked in the Philippines, Japan, India, Mexico, France, and the US. Being an expert in many technologies, Scott has also been a part of several successful start-ups, including a network hardware innovator that was acquired for over $8B. Scott's perspectives combine many real-world experiences. He is interested in nutrition therapy, home renovation, custom car restoration, cooking, photography, sculpture, and, most importantly, parenting.
