Architecting the Cloud

An expert guide to selecting the right cloud service model for your business

Cloud computing is all the rage, allowing for the delivery of computing and storage capacity to a diverse community of end-recipients. However, before you can decide on a cloud model, you need to determine what the ideal cloud service model is for your business. Helping you cut through all the haze, Architecting the Cloud is vendor neutral and guides you in making one of the most critical technology decisions that you will face: selecting the right cloud service model(s) based on a combination of both business and technology requirements.

• Guides corporations through key cloud design considerations
• Discusses the pros and cons of each cloud service model
• Highlights major design considerations in areas such as security, data privacy, logging, data storage, SLA monitoring, and more
• Clearly defines the services cloud providers offer for each service model and the cloud services IT must provide

Arming you with the information you need to choose the right cloud service provider, Architecting the Cloud is a comprehensive guide covering everything you need to be aware of in selecting the right cloud service model for you.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Why Cloud, Why Now?

Chapter 2: Cloud Service Models

Chapter 3: Cloud Computing Worst Practices

Chapter 4: It Starts with Architecture

Chapter 5: Choosing the Right Cloud Service Model

Chapter 6: The Key to the Cloud: RESTful Services

Chapter 7: Auditing in the Cloud

Chapter 8: Data Considerations in the Cloud

Chapter 9: Security Design in the Cloud

Chapter 10: Creating a Centralized Logging Strategy

Chapter 11: SLA Management

Chapter 12: Monitoring Strategies

Chapter 13: Disaster Recovery Planning

Chapter 14: Leveraging a DevOps Culture to Deliver Software Faster and More Reliably

Chapter 15: Assessing the Organizational Impact of the Cloud Model

Chapter 16: Final Thoughts

About the Author

Mike Kavis is a veteran IT architect and industry analyst. He has served in technical roles such as chief technology officer, chief architect, and vice president positions with over 25 years of experience building enterprise solutions.

In 2010, as chief technology officer for start-up M-Dot Network, his company won the prestigious Amazon AWS Global Start-Up Challenge. M-Dot built a high-speed micropayments network that processed digital incentives by integrating brick-and-mortar point-of-sale systems into a digital incentive PaaS built entirely on Amazon’s AWS public cloud. M-Dot Network was acquired in 2011.