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Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice
£49.40
Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, provides students and IT professionals with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. After an introduction to network-centric computing and network-centric content in Chapter One, the book is organized into four sections. Section One reviews basic concepts of concurrency and parallel and distributed systems. Section Two presents such critical components of the cloud ecosystem as cloud service providers, cloud access, cloud data storage, and cloud hardware and software. Section Three covers cloud applications and cloud security, while Section Four presents research topics in cloud computing. Specific topics covered include resource virtualization, resource management and scheduling, and advanced topics like the impact of scale on efficiency, cloud scheduling subject to deadlines, alternative cloud architectures, and vehicular clouds. An included glossary covers terms grouped in several categories, from general to services, virtualization, desirable attributes and security.
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| Publisher | 2nd edition (22 Nov. 2017), Morgan Kaufmann |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 588 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0128128100 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0128128107 |
| Dimensions | 19.05 x 3.38 x 23.5 cm |
by David M Carter
A very disappointing book. The English is poor (many errors per page; I counted seven mistakes plus one undefined term on page 153, for example), layout is just as bad (e.g. bizarre indentations in the algorithm on page 165 make it incomprehensible), and the book hardly deserves to be called a “second edition” – for example on page 35 a claim that MapReduce is “currently” not provided by Microsoft Azure is supported by an eight-year-old reference and unsurprisingly is no longer true. All in all the editor (if there was one) seems to have been asleep on the job. The end result is that I struggled to make progress through the book, wasn’t sure I could believe what I read, and found it hard to retain any of it. So I gave up after a few chapters.