Cloud Computing - The Complete Cornerstone Guide to Cloud Computing Best Practices: Concepts, Terms, and Techniques for Successfully Planning, ... Enterprise IT Cloud Computing Technology

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Table of Contents......Page 4
1.1 What is Cloud Computing?......Page 7
1.2 The Idea Behind Cloud Computing......Page 8
1.3 Key Characteristics of Cloud Computing......Page 10
1.4 What Cloud Computing Really Is......Page 13
1.5 Major Goals of Cloud Computing......Page 15
1.6 Brief History of Cloud Computing......Page 18
2 Common Terminology......Page 23
3 Companies involved in Cloud Computing......Page 31
3.1 Insightful Solutions......Page 32
3.2 Salesforce.com......Page 35
3.3 Facebook......Page 37
3.5 Mosso......Page 38
3.6 Amazon......Page 39
3.7 IBM......Page 40
3.8 Microsoft......Page 42
3.9 Yahoo......Page 44
3.10  Google......Page 45
3.11  Oracle......Page 47
3.12  EMC......Page 48
3.13  Sun Microsystems......Page 49
4 Why Cloud Computing?......Page 51
5 Benefits of Cloud Computing......Page 55
6.1 Dependability......Page 59
6.2 Security......Page 60
6.3 Little or no Reference......Page 61
7 Cloud Computing Technologies......Page 63
8 Architecture Requirements......Page 65
9.2 Client......Page 67
9.3 Infrastructure......Page 68
9.4 Platform......Page 69
9.5 Service......Page 70
9.6 Storage......Page 71
9.7 Processing Power......Page 72
10 Migration from Standard Environment to Cloud Computing......Page 74
10.1 Migration Guide......Page 78
10.2 Top Tech Trends to do with Cloud Computing......Page 84
10.3 Top Tech Trends against Cloud Computing......Page 102
11.1 Support Issues......Page 114
11.2 Capacity Issues......Page 117
11.3 Considerations of Security......Page 121
12.1 Outages......Page 130
12.2 Server failures......Page 131
12.3 Elastic IP Address......Page 132
12.4 Amazon Machine Images (AMI)......Page 133
12.5 Peer-to-Peer......Page 134
13.1 Hype......Page 138
13.2 Technology Media......Page 139
13.3 Cloud Computing and Maturity......Page 140
14.1 Benefits......Page 142
14.2 Enterprise Resource Planning......Page 143
14.3 Open Standards......Page 144
14.4 Terms and Conditions......Page 146
15 Cloud Computing for SMEs......Page 150
15.1 Case Study......Page 151
16.1 The Legal Implications of Google on the Cloud......Page 156
16.2 Territorial Issues......Page 158
16.3 Policy......Page 159
16.4 Average Users and Legal Issues......Page 160
16.5 Contract Issues......Page 161
16.6 Protection of Privacy......Page 162
16.7 Data Segregation & Recovery......Page 164
17 References......Page 166