书名：Cloud Computing云计算（MIT新概念丛书）
作者：Nayan B. Ruparelia
出版社名称：The MIT Press
出版时间：2016

语种：英语
ISBN：9780262529099
商品尺寸：12.6 x 1.6 x 17.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：278（以实物为准）

MIT新概念丛书，由美国麻省理工学院出版社出版，不同于一些专业书籍的简明文本，这套丛书重新把―些重要的主题综合在―起，涵盖从文化历史到科学技术等众多领域，并就当下一些热点问题提供了权威分析。

Most of the information available on cloud computing is either highly technical, with details that are irrelevant to non-technologists, or pure marketing hype, in which the cloud is simply a selling point. This book, however, explains the cloud from the user's viewpoint -- the business user's in particular.

Nayan Ruparelia explains what the cloud is, when to use it (and when not to), how to select a cloud service, how to integrate it with other technologies, and what the best practices are for using cloud computing. Cutting through the hype, Ruparelia cites the simple and basic definition of cloud computing from the National Institute of Science and Technology: a model enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources.

Thus with cloud computing, businesses can harness information technology resources usually available only to large enterprises. And this, Ruparelia demonstrates, represents a paradigm shift for business.

It will ease funding for startups, alter business plans, and allow big businesses greater agility. Ruparelia discusses the key issues for any organization considering cloud computing: service level agreements, business service delivery and consumption, finance, legal jurisdiction, security, and social responsibility.

He introduces novel concepts made possible by cloud computing: cloud cells, or specialist clouds for specific uses; the personal cloud; the cloud of things; and cloud service exchanges.

He examines use case patterns in terms of infrastructure and platform, software information, and business process; and he explains how to transition to a cloud service. Current and future users will find this book an indispensable guide to the cloud.

Nayan B. Ruparelia is an entrepreneur in London. He has more than thirty years of experience in technology, and from 2007 to 2015 he was Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard UK.