| | |  | Spyware | Home » » » » Cloud Computing Explained: Implementation Handbook for Enterprises | | | | | | | Description: | | Second Edition: Updated and Expanded in 2011 Cloud Computing Explained provides an overview of Cloud Computing in an enterprise environment. There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm around cloud-based solutions and services as well as the cost-savings and flexibility that they can provide. It is imperative that all senior technologists have a solid understanding of the ramifications of cloud computing since its impact is likely to permeate the entire IT landscape. However, it is not trivial to introduce a fundamentally different service-delivery paradigm into an existing enterprise architecture. This book describes the benefits and challenges of Cloud Computing and then leads the reader through the process of assessing the suitability of a cloud-based approach for a given situation, calculating and justifying the investment that is required to transform the process or application, and then developing a solid design that considers the implementation as well as the ongoing operations and governance required to maintain the solution in a partially outsourced delivery model. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| John Rhoton | | Paperback:
| 472 pages | | Publisher:
| Recursive Press | | Publication Date:
| November 02, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
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33 of 33 found the following review helpful:
 The book provides systematic treatment of all aspects of a Cloud Computing implementationDec 18, 2009
By Dominik S.
The book provides systematic treatment of all aspects of a Cloud Computing implementation starting from a definition of what it actually means and assessment of whether it is suitable for a given company to the strategy alignment, implementation and operation of a working solution.
It covers some of the main concerns around cloud computing including risk assessments, governance models, compliance concerns, interoperability with existing and heterogeneous environments. While these are legitimate issues there are ways to address them which are explored extensively in the book.
It provides a very wide treatment of cloud computing that covers Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service as the many integration and management components that are necessary to make these work together to fulfill business requirements.
It is not focused on any particular vendor or service offering. While there is considerable treatment of Amazon, Google and Microsoft the text references several dozen other players and demonstrates how the whole ecosystem works together to solve the main objectives of cost reduction, business flexibility and strategic focus.
What I liked most was that as an IT manager the book leads you through your whole cloud computing project. It provides methods and background information on how to tackle each project step best. It is a perfectly comprehensive implementation guide covering everything you need to be aware of.
22 of 22 found the following review helpful:
best cloud computing book I've been able to findDec 30, 2009
By M. Klaus
John Rhoton's book "Cloud Computing Explained" is the best cloud computing book I've been able to find. Written in an easy-to-read format, which I like, it adopts Rhoton's proven approach at implementing emerging technologies in Fortune 500 corporations. The book is divided into ten logical sections that provide a thorough picture of cloud computing:
1. Define: explores the meaning of the term and its context; consider the different manifestations of private, public and partner clouds delivered as Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service
2. Assess: provides a sober means to evaluate when and where it is applicable, considering financial, strategic and risk implications
3. Design: establish a high-level approach and methodology for evaluating, planning and implementing cloud computing
4. Select: how to select the optimal suite of applications and services to solve a business problem, how to target the best user groups and identify the best offerings to meet the business needs
5. Integrate: what it takes to put together all the different components and connect them with the legacy infrastructure; considers end-to-end design, connectivity, resilience and security.
6. Implement: how to make the design actually work, including technical migration and organisational changes
7. Operate: considers the day-to-day service management, administration, monitoring and support implications of cloud solutions
8. Control: tackles the core problems of compliance, risk and governance as they manifest themselves in cloud computing
9. Adapt: how to continuously refine a cloud-based solution in order to optimize it in a dynamic environment
10. Evolve: technological changes on the horizon for cloud computing and their potential effect on cloud services
The unique systematic book structure is very useful for all IT professionals architects and executives since it serves as a roadmap for embarking on a course in any new technology and is enriched with solid cloud-based guidance for every step of the way.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
A "must have" book on Cloud Computing!Apr 26, 2010
By R. Rivera
This books provides the most comprehensive picture of Cloud Computing that you will find in print today. The author covers all you need to know about Cloud Computing in ten very logically sequenced parts: Define, Assess, Design, Select, Integrate, Implement, Operate, Control, Adapt, Evolve.
Within these 10 parts, the author makes very practical and detailed explanations of areas related to Cloud Computing not typically found in other books, like management layers, ecosystem, infrastructure stack, platform as a service, how to assess benefits and challenges (strategic, risk and financial impacts), security architecture and design, employee changes, monitoring, governance and compliance, and even a list a Cloud Vendors.
With this book the author presents a document that is extremely practical and useful for consultants, architects, technologists, CIOs, CTO's, technology managers, and strategists who are actually involved with the planning and implementation of information technology - or for those who are just interested in Cloud Computing.
You would expect no less from someone who is known to have been one of the technology thought leaders at Hewlett-Packard for so many years - especially if you have read any of his other books. He has brought his considerable experience on Cloud Computing to bear here - and it shows when you see that what you learn from this book can put to immediate use.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Good Overview...Beware the Details...Mar 22, 2011
By Redmond Geek
Pro's:
This book does a good job of breaking the cloud-computing problem into a manageable set of topics. CIOs or other enterprise-level strategic planners will find it a useful outline for guiding their work.
Rhoton is a professional management consultant and trainer, which has given him a good sense for presenting material in an orderly fashion.
Con's:
Rhoton is a professional management consultant and trainer, so the book's hidden agenda is to convince the reader to engage Rhoton's services. (That's simply a fact of life for books written by professional consultants -- they make their money by selling services, not by selling books.) Consequently, the book isn't really very deep. Yes, there are lots of buzzwords and acronyms thrown around, but not enough real information to build a workable cloud-computing strategy. Mostly just enough to convince you that Rhoton knows what he's talking about.
Much of the book consists of information that Rhoton culled from publicly-available sources (mostly the Web and Wikipedia). Rhoton is very up-front about this, but it still makes the book feel artifically padded. Indeed, the final 130 pages are nothing but product descriptions taken from vendor websites and presented without commentary.
Rhoton claims that the book benefits from being a print-on-demand, self-published title. He says this allows him to keep the book up to date. And yet he makes serious errors when he presents technical details of vendors' offerings. -- mostly due to out-of-date information. For example, even though the current revision of the book was publsihed in 2010, Rhoton's description of Microsoft SQL Azure is based on an early, pre-release version of the product that had totally different characteristics. Basing an enterprise strategy on the details in Rhoton's book could lead to poor results.
Bottom line:
Rhoton does a good job of outlining the important topics that an enterprise planner needs to consider in order to move to the cloud. It provides a good check-list of topics that should be part of the planning process. In that sense, the book is rather like a set of training wheels on a bike. However, don't rely on this book for the details; it's not a reliable reference.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
"...one of the best books released this past year on the growing technology Cloud domain..."Mar 27, 2010
By Andrew R. Guzman
"Experienced CIO, CTO, Chief EA"
John Rhoton's recent release "Cloud Computing - Explained" is by far one of the best books released this past year on the growing technology Cloud domain. Rhoton's years of real-world technology management and its implementation, in the field, with real clients, real implementation pressures, and, real resource-budget constraints, in an ever changing IT world, have all come perfectly together in an very resourceful, linear, thoughtfully written AND practical IT book. This isn't just another IT book on an IT fad - it's a much-needed implementation manual.
Rhoton's opening "Define" segment of the first 5 chapters are alone worth the price of the book where he "defines" What is a Cloud? ...in a professional manner that is clear and to the point ...then diving into a concrete discussion of Cloud Architecture [better than I've seen or read elsewhere in published format], a much-needed essential first step with follow-on discussions on IaaS, PaaS, and, SaaS, getting to a very mature understanding as to how Cloud Computing is moving us to the next major paradigm shift of EaaS in the overall IT space. Rhoton then goes to discuss assessment, alignment, costing and design considerations, again, in a very mature linear manner, ending with solutioning, where selection of appropriate vendor solutions is well discussed. In addition, the Appendix on Cloud vendors is also worth reviewing as one of the better current catalogs of successful products/services in the field at this time.
This is a Cloud implementation text CIOs, CTOs, and, real Enterprise Architectures should read and can use as they learn and navigate through the major Cloud paradigm shift we all being impacted by today.
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