Cloud Computing For Dummies® -- About the Authors -- Dedications -- Authors' Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- How This Book Is Organized -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: Introducing Cloud Computing -- Chapter 1: Grasping the Fundamentals -- Considering Perspectives -- Computing on the Cloud -- Defining the Cloud -- Comparing Cloud Providers with Traditional IT Service Providers -- Addressing Problems -- Discovering the Business Drivers for Consuming Cloud Services -- Chapter 2: Discovering the Value of the Cloud for Business -- Modeling Services -- Understanding Infrastructure as a Service -- Exploring Platform as a Service -- Seeing Software as a Service -- Management and Administration -- Chapter 3: Getting Inside the Cloud -- Feeling Sensational about Organization -- Administering Cloud Services -- Looking at the Technical Interface -- Managing Cloud Resources -- Untangling Software Dependencies -- Chapter 4: Developing Your Cloud Strategy -- Seeing the Many Aspects of Your Cloud Strategy -- Questioning Your Company's Strategy -- Assessing Where You Are Today -- Assessing Your Expense Structure -- Checking Up on Rules and Governances -- Developing a Road Map -- Part II: Understanding the Nature of the Cloud -- Chapter 5: Seeing the Advantages of the Highly Scaled Data Center -- Comparing Financial Damage: Traditional versus Cloud -- Scaling the Cloud -- Comparing Traditional and Cloud Data Center Costs -- Chapter 6: Exploring the Technical Foundation for Scaling -- Server-ing Up Some Hardware -- Economies of Scale -- Keeping the Bottom Line in Mind -- Chapter 7: Checking the Cloud's Workload Strategy -- Managing Workloads in the Cloud -- Balancing Risk and Practical Models -- Testing Workloads in the Real World.

Chapter 8: Managing Data -- Declaring Data Types -- Securing Data in the Cloud -- Looking at Data, Scalability, and Cloud Services -- Sorting Out Metadata Matters -- Talking to Your Cloud Vendor about Data -- Chapter 9: Discovering Private and Hybrid Clouds -- Pining for Privacy -- Examining the Economics of the Private Cloud -- Offering Up Key Vendors -- Part III: Examining the Cloud Elements -- Chapter 10: Seeing Infrastructure as a Service -- Tracing IaaS to ISP -- Exploring Amazon EC2: Case Study -- Checking Out Other IaaS Companies -- Examining IaaS-Enabling Technology -- Trusting the Cloud -- What Infrastructure as a Service Means to You -- Chapter 11: Exploring Platform as a Service -- Putting Platform as a Service on a Pedestal -- Getting Inside the Integrated Lifecycle Platform -- Getting Inside Anchored Lifecycle Platform as a Service -- Enabling Technologies as a Platform -- Chapter 12: Using Software as a Service -- SalesForce.com's Approach to Evolving Software as a Service -- Characterizing Software as a Service -- Understanding the Economics and the Ecosystem -- Examining Types of SaaS Platforms -- Chapter 13: Understanding Massively Scaled Applications and Business Processes -- Naming Names: Companies with Massively Scaled Applications -- Delivering Business Processes from the Cloud -- Chapter 14: Setting Some Standards -- Understanding Best Practices and Standards -- Clouding the Standards and Best Practices Issue -- Standards Organizations and Groups -- Part IV: Managing the Cloud -- Chapter 15: Managing and Securing Cloud Services -- Putting Security on the Spot with Questions -- Understanding Security Risks -- Reducing Cloud Security Breaches -- Implementing Identity Management -- Playing Detective: Detection and Forensics -- Encrypting Data -- Creating a Cloud Security Strategy -- Chapter 16: Governing the Cloud.

Looking at IT Governance -- Deciding on a Governor -- Knowing the Risks of Running in the Cloud -- Making Governance Work -- Chapter 17: Virtualization and the Cloud -- Visualizing Virtualization -- Managing Virtualization -- Taking Virtualization into the Cloud -- Chapter 18: Managing Desktops and Devices in the Cloud -- Virtualizing the Desktop -- Putting Desktops in the Cloud -- Managing Desktops in the Cloud -- Getting a Reality Check -- Chapter 19: Service Oriented Architecture and the Cloud -- Defining Service Oriented Architecture -- Loosening Up on Coupling -- Making SOA Happen -- Understanding Services in the Cloud -- Serving the Business with SOA and Cloud Computing -- Chapter 20: Managing the Cloud Environment -- Managing the Cloud -- Building Up Support Desks -- Gaining Visibility -- Tracking Service Level Agreements -- Part V: Planning for the Cloud -- Chapter 21: Banking on Cloud Economics -- eeing the Cloud's Allure -- Creating an Economic Model of the Data Center -- Adjusting the Economic Model even Further -- Summarizing an Economic Cost Model -- Chapter 22: Starting Your Journey to the Cloud -- Putting the Kibosh on Cloud Cultural Issues -- Measuring Twice: Assessing Risks -- Picking the Right Targets for Success -- Planning for Leveraging the Cloud -- Part VI: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 23: Ten (Plus One) Swell Cloud Computing Resources -- Hurwitz & Associates -- National Institute of Standards and Technology -- CloudCamp -- SaaS Showplace -- TechTarget -- The Cloud Standards Wiki -- Finding OASIS -- The Eclipse Foundation -- The Cloud Security Alliance -- Open Cloud Manifesto -- Vendor Sites -- Chapter 24: Ten Cloud Dos and Don'ts -- Don't Be Reactive -- Do Consider the Cloud a Financial Issue -- Don't Go It Alone -- Do Think about Your Architecture -- Don't Neglect Governance -- Don't Forget about Business Process.

Do Make Security the Centerpiece of Your Strategy -- Don't Apply the Cloud to Everything -- Don't Forget about Service Management -- Do Start with a Pilot Project -- Glossary -- Index.