Enterprise Cloud: Best Practices for Transforming Legacy IT

Despite the buzz surrounding the cloudcomputing, only a small percentage of organizations have actually deployed thisnew style of IT—so far. If you're planning your long-term cloud strategy, thispractical book provides insider knowledge and actionable real-world lessonsregarding planning, design, operations, security, and applicationtransformation. This book teaches business and technology managers how totransition their organization's traditional IT to cloud computing. Rather thanyet another book trying to sell or convince readers on the benefits of clouds,this book provides guidance, lessons learned, and best practices on how todesign, deploy, operate, and secure an enterprise cloud based on real-worldexperience.

Author James Bond provides useful guidance and best-practice checklists basedon his field experience with real customers and cloud providers. You'll viewcloud services from the perspective of a consumer and as an owner/operator ofan enterprise private or hybrid cloud, and learn valuable lessons fromsuccessful and less-than-successful organization use-case scenarios. This isthe information every CIO needs in order to make the business and technicaldecisions to finally execute on their journey to cloud computing.

• Get updated trends and definitions in cloud computing, deployment models, and for building or buying cloud services
• Discover challenges in cloud operations and management not foreseen by early adopters
• Use real-world lessons to plan and build an enterprise private or hybrid cloud
• Learn how to assess, port, and migrate legacy applications to the cloud
• Identify security threats and vulnerabilities unique to the cloud
• Employ a cloud management system for your enterprise (private or multi-provider hybrid) cloud ecosystem
• Understand the challenges for becoming an IT service broker leveraging the power of the cloud

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