Cloud Computing with Security and Scalability. Concepts and Practices

This book provides readers with an overview of Cloud Computing, starting with historical background on mainframe computers and early networking protocols, leading to current concerns such as hardware and systems security, performance, emerging areas of IoT, Edge Computing, and healthcare etc.  Readers will benefit from the in-depth discussion of cloud computing usage and the underlying architectures.  The authors explain carefully the “why’s and how’s” of Cloud Computing, so engineers will find this book an invaluable source of information to the topic.  This third edition includes new material on Cloud Computing Scalability, as well as best practices for using dynamic cloud infrastructure, and cloud operations management with cost optimizations.  Several new examples and analysis of cloud security have been added, including ARM architecture and https protocol.

• Provides practical guidance for software developers engaged in migrating in-house applications to Public Cloud;
• Describes for IT managers how to improve their Cloud Computing infrastructures;
• Includes coverage of security concerns with Cloud operating models;
• Uses several case studies to illustrate the “why’s and how’s” of using the Cloud;
• Examples and options to improve Cloud Computing Scalability.

1-Introduction.- 2-Foundations of Cloud Computing and Information Security.- 3-Cloud Computing Pyramid.- 4-Features of Private and Public Cloud.- 5-Cloud Workload Characterization.- 6-Cloud Management and Monitoring.- 7-Cloud Computing and Information Security.- 8-Migrating to Cloud.- 9-Migrating a Complex Industry to Cloud.- 10-Cost and Billing Practices in Cloud.- 11-Additional Security Considerations for Cloud.- 12-Analytics in the Cloud.- 13-Cloud Computing Scalability.- 14-Health Care in the Cloud: Case Studies.- 15-Future Trends in Cloud Computing.- 16-A Quick Test of Your Cloud Fundamentals Grasp.- 17-Hands-On Project to Use Cloud Service Provider.

Naresh K. Sehgal is working at NovaSignal Corp since 2020, as the Sr. VP of Cloud Engineering. Before that he worked at Intel for more than 31 years in various engineering and management roles. Naresh has earned a B.E. (Electrical Engineering) from Punjab Engineering College, M.S. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University in Computer Engineering. Naresh taught Cloud Computing at Santa Clara University, where he also earned a MBA.

Pramod Chandra (PCP) Bhatt started his teaching career in 1965 at IIT Kanpur, and then moved to IIT Delhi in 1969, and retired from IIT Delhi in 1996. Prof Bhatt also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), Universities of Dortmund, Paderborn and Bochum (Germany), and Kochi University of Technology (Japan).  Prof. Bhatt has a M.E. from Calcutta University and a PhD from IIT Kanpur. He has also been a Konrad Zuse Fellow at the University of Dortmund.

John M. Acken isa research faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Portland State University, Portland, OR.  John received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His projects include technology and devices for information security and identity authentication. John has worked as an Electrical Engineer and Manager at several companies, including the US Army, Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Intel in Santa Clara, CA.  John’s time in the US Army was in the Army Security Agency, a branch of NSA during the Vietnam War.