The Little Book of Cloud Computing, 2013 Edition - Lars Nielsen - Bog

Here it is ... the bestseller now revised and expanded to reveal the most important Cloud innovations for 2013, including key Big Data tools from Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft and many other industry leaders. This concise, jargon-free volume fully explains the state-of-the-art (and the state of the industry) in Cloud Computing. Using a completely user-friendly approach that assumes no prior knowledge, noted systems developer Lars Nielsen describes the most vital fundamentals of Cloud Computing - that powerful approach to enterprise systems by which today's smart organizations cut costs while still maintaining access to all the digital capacity they need. Nielsen explains tested, effective strategies for maximizing the latest Cloud Computing tools and economies, putting them to work for your organization. He also provides a vivid snapshot of the major industry players, surveys current trends in the Cloud marketplace, and lays out vital issues of Cloud security. This new edition incorporates coverage of Amazon Elastic MapReduce and PowerShell, Google BigQuery and Google SQL, IBM Platform Symphony, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Big Data, Microsoft's HDInsight, and much more. CONTENTS: Introduction * The Basics * Technology and Business Fundamentals * Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Including Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR), RedShift - a Data Warehouse Solution Bringing Analytics "To the Masses," - and PowerShell * IBM Cloud Services - Including IBM Platform Symphony for Breakthrough Hadoop Results and Optimal MapR Implementation * Microsoft and the Cloud - Including HDInsight for Big Data * Google and the Cloud - Including BigQuery for Gaining Real-Time Big Data Insights, Google Compute Engine for Quickly Crunching Big Data, and Google SQL * Red Hat - Including Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Big Data, OpenShift and Other Goodies * Cloud in a Box - The Pre-Fab Track to a Robust Private Cloud * Apple and Other Purveyors of Consumer Cloud Services * VMware, Cetas, EMC, Greenplum, The Pivotal Initiative and Big Data * Hewlett-Packard, Oracle/Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Virtual Computing Environment Coalition/Acadia, Rackspace and GoGrid * Cloud Security, the Need for Data Loss Prevention (DLP), And Various Other Fun Stuff