Hybrid Cloud Essentials

"A superb introduction for the busy professional who must get up to speed fast on the hybrid cloud technologies, markets and providers." - Jim Kimble, CEO, Cloud Design Partners


In an efficient 21,000 words, noted computer consultant Noreen Burlingame provides an insightful crash-course on the dominant cloud approach being adopted today by businesses worldwide.

The hybrid paradigm empowers enterprises to enjoy the public cloud benefits of elasticity, economy and rapid scaling while at the same time keeping sensitive data secure in a private cloud implementation.

International Data Corporation (IDC) says Information Technology (IT) enterprises "can expect to manage a hybrid mix of public cloud, private cloud, and non-cloud IT resources for some time. They will need highly automated and integrated system management software tools to optimize IT processes and application performance across these dynamic hybrid cloud environments. IDC expects that the ability to manage hybrid clouds seamlessly and effectively will become a critical differentiator and control point for system management software vendors." According to a mid-2011 survey made by North Bridge Venture Partners in cooperation with GigaOM Pro and The 451 Group, 60% of people using public or private clouds anticipate eventually moving to a hybrid cloud.

Growth will be especially exponential among small businesses.

Noreen Burlingame gives you all the core information you need to make sure your enterprise reaps maximum possible benefit from the emerging cornucopia of hybrid cloud products, standards, tools and options being brought to the marketplace by such firms as Amazon, VMware, Red Hat, Microsoft, Intel and Google.


CONTENTS: About This Book and New Street Executive Summaries * Cloud Computing: A Quick Explanation * The Argument for Hybrid Clouds * The Need for an Inter-Cloud * Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) * VMware's vSphere5, Cloud Infrastructure Suite and vCloud Datacenter * Microsoft Windows Azure, AppFabric, System Center 2012, and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (Aurora) * Google App Engine and the SuperVIEW Hybrid Cloud Service * Red Hat: CloudForms, OpenShift and Deltacloud * OpenStack, Hadoop and Eucalyptus * Intel AppUp Small Business Service and Intel Hybrid Cloud Platform * IBM's WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration and SmartCloud * Cisco/newScale, Oracle CloudFS, SAP, and Hewlett-Packard/VMware Partnering * EMC * Dell * Rackspace, CSC, Salesforce and Huddle * Verizon and CloudSwitch * About the Author

"A superb introduction for the busy professional who must get up to speed fast on the hybrid cloud technologies, markets and providers." - Jim Kimble, CEO, Cloud Design Partners


In an efficient 21,000 words, noted computer consultant Noreen Burlingame provides an insightful crash-course on the dominant cloud approach being adopted today by businesses worldwide.

The hybrid paradigm empowers enterprises to enjoy the public cloud benefits of elasticity, economy and rapid scaling while at the same time keeping sensitive data secure in a private cloud implementation.

International Data Corporation (IDC) says Information Technology (IT) enterprises "can expect to manage a hybrid mix of public cloud, private cloud, and non-cloud IT resources for some time. They will need highly automated and integrated system management software tools to optimize IT processes and application performance across these dynamic hybrid cloud environments. IDC expects that the ability to manage hybrid clouds seamlessly and effectively will become a critical differentiator and control point for system management software vendors." According to a mid-2011 survey made by North Bridge Venture Partners in cooperation with GigaOM Pro and The 451 Group, 60% of people using public or private clouds anticipate eventually moving to a hybrid cloud.

Growth will be especially exponential among small businesses.

Noreen Burlingame gives you all the core information you need to make sure your enterprise reaps maximum possible benefit from the emerging cornucopia of hybrid cloud products, standards, tools and options being brought to the marketplace by such firms as Amazon, VMware, Red Hat, Microsoft, Intel and Google.


CONTENTS: About This Book and New Street Executive Summaries * Cloud Computing: A Quick Explanation * The Argument for Hybrid Clouds * The Need for an Inter-Cloud * Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) * VMware's vSphere5, Cloud Infrastructure Suite and vCloud Datacenter * Microsoft Windows Azure, AppFabric, System Center 2012, and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (Aurora) * Google App Engine and the SuperVIEW Hybrid Cloud Service * Red Hat: CloudForms, OpenShift and Deltacloud * OpenStack, Hadoop and Eucalyptus * Intel AppUp Small Business Service and Intel Hybrid Cloud Platform * IBM's WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration and SmartCloud * Cisco/newScale, Oracle CloudFS, SAP, and Hewlett-Packard/VMware Partnering * EMC * Dell * Rackspace, CSC, Salesforce and Huddle * Verizon and CloudSwitch * About the Author