CONTENTS Introduction 1 Part 1 : Introducing Cloud Computing 5 1: Grasping the Fundamentals 7 2: Discovering the Value of the Cloud for Business 17 3: Getting Inside the Cloud 27 4: Developing Your Cloud Strategy 39 Part 2 : Understanding the Mature of the Cloud 47 5: Seeing the Advantages of the Highly Scaled Data Center 49 6: Exploring the Technical Foundation for Scaling Computer Systems 59 7: Checking the Cloud's Workload Strategy .67 8: Managing Data 75 9: Discovering Private and Hybrid Clouds. 87 Part 3 : Examining the Cloud Elements 105 10: Seeing Infrastructure as a Service 107 11: Exploring Platform as a Service. 119 12: Using Software as a Service 137 13: Understanding Massively Scaled Applications and Business Processes 153 14: Setting Some Standards 161 Part 4 : Managing the Cloud 171 15: Managing and Securing Cloud Services 173 16: Governing the Cloud 187 17: Virtualization and the Cloud 197 18: Managing Desktops and Devices in the Cloud 209 19: Service Oriented Architecture and the Cloud. 221 20: Managing the Cloud Environment 231 Part 5 : Planning for the Cloud 243 21: Banking on Cloud Economics 245 22: Starting Your Journey to the Cloud 255 Part 6 : The Part of Tens 265 23: Ten (Plus One) Swell Cloud Computing Resources 267 24: Ten Cloud Dos and Don'ts 271 Glossary 275 Index 291