Enterprise Cloud Computing

Cloud computing promises to revolutionize IT and business by making computing available as a utility over the internet. This book is intended primarily for practising software architects who need to assess the impact of such a transformation. It explains the evolution of the internet into a cloud computing platform describes emerging development paradigms and technologies and discusses how these will change the way enterprise applications should be architected for cloud deployment. Gautam Shroff provides a technical description of cloud computing technologies covering cloud infrastructure and platform services programming paradigms such as MapReduce as well as 'do-it-yourself' hosted development tools. He also describes emerging technologies critical to cloud computing. The book also covers the fundamentals of enterprise computing including a technical introduction to enterprise architecture so it will interest programmers aspiring to become software architects and serve as a reference for a graduate-level course in software architecture or software engineering.