Cloud computing : business trends and technologies /
Cloud Computing: Business Trends and Technologies provides a broad introduction to Cloud computing technologies and their applications to IT and telecommunications businesses (i.e., the network function virtualization, NFV). To this end, the book is expected to serve as a textbook in a graduate cour...
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- CLOUD COMPUTING; Contents; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; References; 2 The Business of Cloud Computing; 2.1 IT Industry Transformation through Virtualization and Cloud; 2.2 The Business Model Around Cloud; 2.2.1 Cloud Providers; 2.2.2 Software and Service Vendors; 2.3 Taking Cloud to the Network Operators; References; 3 CPU Virtualization; 3.1 Motivation and History; 3.2 A Computer Architecture Primer; 3.2.1 CPU, Memory, and I/O; 3.2.2 How the CPU Works; 3.2.3 In-program Control Transfer: Jumps and Procedure Calls; 3.2.4 Interrupts and Exceptions-the CPU Loop Refined.
- 3.2.5 Multi-processing and its Requirements-The Need for an Operating System3.2.6 Virtual Memory-Segmentation and Paging; 3.2.7 Options in Handling Privileged Instructions and the Final Approximation of the CPU Loop; 3.2.8 More on Operating Systems; 3.3 Virtualization and Hypervisors; 3.3.1 Model, Requirements, and Issues; 3.3.2 The x86 Processor and Virtualization; 3.3.3 Dealing with a Non-virtualizable CPU; 3.3.4 I/O Virtualization; 3.3.5 Hypervisor Examples; 3.3.6 Security; References; 4 Data Networks-The Nervous System of the Cloud; 4.1 The OSI Reference Model.
- 4.1.1 Host-to-Host Communications4.1.2 Interlayer Communications; 4.1.3 Functional Description of Layers; 4.2 The Internet Protocol Suite; 4.2.1 IP-The Glue of the Internet; 4.2.2 The Internet Hourglass; 4.3 Quality of Service in IP Networks; 4.3.1 Packet Scheduling Disciplines and Traffic Specification Models; 4.3.2 Integrated Services; 4.3.3 Differentiated Services; 4.3.4 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS); 4.4 WAN Virtualization Technologies; 4.5 Software-Defined Network; 4.6 Security of IP; References; 5 Networking Appliances; 5.1 Domain Name System; 5.1.1 Architecture and Protocol.
- 5.1.2 DNS Operation5.1.3 Top-Level Domain Labels; 5.1.4 DNS Security; 5.2 Firewalls; 5.2.1 Network Perimeter Control; 5.2.2 Stateless Firewalls; 5.2.3 Stateful Firewalls; 5.2.4 Application-Layer Firewalls; 5.3 NAT Boxes; 5.3.1 Allocation of Private IP Addresses; 5.3.2 Architecture and Operation of the NAT Boxes; 5.3.3 Living with NAT; 5.3.4 Carrier-Grade NAT; 5.4 Load Balancers; 5.4.1 Load Balancing in a Server Farm; 5.4.2 A Practical Example: A Load-Balanced Web Service; 5.4.3 Using DNS for Load Balancing; References; 6 Cloud Storage and the Structure of a Modern Data Center.
- 6.1 Data Center Basics6.1.1 Compute; 6.1.2 Storage; 6.1.3 Networking; 6.2 Storage-Related Matters; 6.2.1 Direct-Attached Storage; 6.2.2 Network-Attached Storage; 6.2.3 Storage Area Network; 6.2.4 Convergence of SAN and Ethernet; 6.2.5 Object Storage; 6.2.6 Storage Virtualization; 6.2.7 Solid-State Storage; References; 7 Operations, Management, and Orchestration in the Cloud; 7.1 Orchestration in the Enterprise; 7.1.1 The Service-Oriented Architecture; 7.1.2 Workflows; 7.2 Network and Operations Management; 7.2.1 The OSI Network Management Framework and Model; 7.2.2 Policy-Based Management.
