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Buch – Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Titel: Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Autor: Tom White

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“Hadoop: The Definitive Guide helps you harness the power of your data. Ideal for processing large datasets, the Apache Hadoop framework is an open source implementation of the MapReduce algorithm on which Google built its empire. This comprehensive resource demonstrates how to use Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems: programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters.

Complete with case studies that illustrate how Hadoop solves specific problems, this book helps you:

  • Use the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for storing large datasets, and run distributed computations over those datasets using MapReduce
  • Become familiar with Hadoop’s data and I/O building blocks for compression, data integrity, serialization, and persistence
  • Discover common pitfalls and advanced features for writing real-world MapReduce programs
  • Design, build, and administer a dedicated Hadoop cluster, or run Hadoop in the cloud
  • Use Pig, a high-level query language for large-scale data processing
  • Take advantage of HBase, Hadoop’s database for structured and semi-structured data
  • Learn ZooKeeper, a toolkit of coordination primitives for building distributed systems

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Buch – Workflow Scheduling for Service Oriented Cloud Computing

Titel: Workflow Scheduling for Service Oriented Cloud Computing: cloud, grid, scheduling, services, simulation, workflows

Autor: Adnan Fida

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“In Service Oriented Computing Cloud (SOCC), applications are formed by composing a set of services together. In addition, hierarchical service layers are also possible where general purpose services at lower layers are composed to deliver more domain specific services at the higher layer. In general an SOCC is a horizontally scalable computing platform that offers its resources as services in a standardized fashion. Workflow based applications are a suitable target for SOCC where workflow tasks are executed via service calls within the cloud. One or more workflows can be deployed over an SOCC and their execution requires scheduling of services to workflow tasks as the task become ready following their interdependencies. In this thesis heuristics based scheduling policies are evaluated for scheduling workflows over a collection of services offered by the SOCC. Various execution scenarios and workflow characteristics are considered to understand the implication of the heuristic based workflow scheduling.”

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Buch – Cloud Computing Best Practices for Managing and Measuring Processes for On-demand Computing, Applications and Data centers in the Cloud with SLAs

Titel: Cloud Computing Best Practices for Managing and Measuring Processes for On-demand Computing, Applications and Data centers in the Cloud with SLAs

Autor: Haley Beard

Beschreibung:
“The #1 best-selling Cloud Computing book of all time, revised and updated to keep pace with today’s ever-changing developments, possibilities and opportunities. Updates and revisions throughout.
The first edition of this book is regarded as a classic in its field. Now, in an expanded and updated version, the authors once again present a step-by-step guide to Managing Cloud Computing Initiatives.

Computing as a utility has arrived. Companies are shifting from a world in which we run computers, to one in which we pay for computing. The benefits are tremendous: Cost-effective infrastructure that scales as needed, and an ability to focus on the business rather than the platforms. But the risks are high, and cloud computing may not be ready for prime time. This book offers a first-time in-depth look into the managed processes for cloud computing.

How reliable is the cloud? Enterprises demand predictable service levels, reliable delivery, and committed availability. This book looks at what level of service we should demand – and can expect – from cloud computing infrastructure, as well as tools and best practices for measuring it.

New computing means new management. This book covers emerging best practices for managing applications when they’re running in the cloud.

Considering the increasing number of IT Professionals and their Organizations who want to be actively involved in Cloud Computing Management, this book, which paves the way for a strong Foundation, should do at least as well as the first edition, which is a bestseller.”

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Buch – Cloud Computing Best Practice Specialist Guide for Storage Management and Platform as a service (PaaS)

Titel: Cloud Computing Best Practice Specialist Guide for Storage Management and Platform as a service (PaaS): Understanding and Applying PaaS Solutions

Autor: Ivanka Menken, Gerard Blokdijk

Beschreibung:
“Platform as a service (PaaS) is the delivery of a computing platform and solution stack as a service. It facilitates deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software layers, providing all of the facilities required to support the complete life cycle of building and delivering web applications and services entirely available from the Internet – with no software downloads or installation for developers, IT managers or end-users.
PaaS offerings include workflow facilities for application design, application development, testing, deployment and hosting as well as application services such as team collaboration, web service integration and marshalling, database integration, security, scalability, storage, persistence, state management, application versioning, application instrumentation and developer community facilitation. These services are provisioned as an integrated solution over the web.

The primary goal of this book is to provide the quality education and support materials needed to enable the understanding and application of PaaS Platform and Storage Management in a wide range of contexts.

The PaaS Platform and Storage Management Certification Scheme has been created to support the IT Professional who needs to be a ‘niche generalist’, especially in a rapidly changing area like PaaS Platform and Storage Management.

This book Covers:

  • Platform As A Service: How to Build applications in days or weeks not months.
  • PaaS Development: How to Develop On-Demand Apps
  • Cloud Platform for ISVs: How to Create and Sell SaaS Applications
  • Storage Management: Manage Storage Virtualization and Reduce Costs
  • Backup and Recovery: How to Improve Backup & Recovery in Your Virtual Environment

Filled with thought provoking questions to challenge your thinking and understanding, this book is your Real World Guide to PaaS Platform and Storage Management Skills, with Key information and real world examples organized around the actual day-to-day tasks and challenges you’ll face in the field of IT Management. Practice what you’ve learned with challenging PaaS Platform and Storage Management Specialist exam style questions.
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Buch – Cloud Computing Explained: Implementation Handbook for Enterprises

Titel: Cloud Computing Explained: Implementation Handbook for Enterprises

Autor: John Rhoton

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“Cloud Computing Explained provides an overview of Cloud Computing in an enterprise environment. There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm around cloud-based solutions and services as well as the cost-savings and flexibility that they can provide. It is imperative that all senior technologists have a solid understanding of the ramifications of cloud computing since its impact is likely to permeate the entire IT landscape. However, it is not trivial to introduce a fundamentally different service-delivery paradigm into an existing enterprise architecture. This book describes the benefits and challenges of Cloud Computing and then leads the reader through the process of assessing the suitability of a cloud-based approach for a given situation, calculating and justifying the investment that is required to transform the process or application, and then developing a solid design that considers the implementation as well as the ongoing operations and governance required to maintain the solution in a partially outsourced delivery model.”

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Buch – Cloud Computing Best Practice Guide: Strategies, Methods and Challenges To Managing Services in the Cloud

Titel: Cloud Computing Best Practice Guide: Strategies, Methods and Challenges To Managing Services in the Cloud

Autor: Ivanka Menken, Gerard Blokdijk

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“This book is for business people who want to know how cloud computing will facilitate new breakthroughs in business innovation, how work gets done in organizations, how companies will interact with each other in value chains, and how management will change. If you are in some way responsible for the success of your company, you should read this book. If you are a CEO or CIO, you should definitely read this book.
Modern Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and IT managers are entering a new era of information technology, the era of the ‘cloud’. While many critics claim that there is not a great deal that is actually new with the concept of cloud computing; few would deny the likelihood of it becoming a dominant force in years to come.

Regardless of which definition of cloud computing that you subscribe to (and there are many), the continual drive for increased cost-effectiveness, agility, quality and responsiveness will mean that no CIO can ignore exploring the business case for its potential adoption. Some may claim exemption due to real (or imagined) risks in security, privacy, visibility, availability or latency as reasons for their resistance. But like all technological revolutions, the marketplace and economy will eventually respond as the possibility of strategic disadvantage looms.

As with all practical and common sense approaches though, first consider the problem(s) that cloud computing offers may offer solutions to. While many vocal supporters praise the benefits that cloud computing models bring, fewer have clearly defined the actual problems that have been solved or reasoned why other possible alternatives were not as suitable. So before CIOs spend large amounts of time investigating the virtues of different vendor offerings, thought should be given as to why their current offerings and management practices may (or may not) be stifling business growth, productivity or profitability.

To help individuals navigate through these largely uncharted waters, Managing Services in the Cloud analyzes and explains the strategies, methods and challenges involved with the adoption and ongoing management of cloud computing models as part of their IT service provision.”

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Buch – Dot Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform Built on Cloud Computing

Titel: Dot Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform Built on Cloud Computing

Autor: Peter Fingar

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“Shift happens. The unexpected matters. Remember how the retail book industry was slow to grasp an understanding of the Internet before it got ”Amazoned?” Well, here we go again, only this time the shift could be even greater, and it’s happening in the midst of economic turmoil. Right now, there’s something in the air, something really big. It’s so big that to many it’s hidden in plain sight. To others it’s as clear as seeing a cloud in the sky. In fact, that something is indeed the Cloud, the 21st century business platform.

Just as it was with that new-fangled ”Internet” thing a decade ago, the Cloud and the technologies of Cloud Computing suffer from confusion and hype. And pat definitions won’t do when it comes to understanding these two new buzzwords. But, as they are game-changing phenomena, business leaders–and the rest of us–must gain an understanding of what these terms really mean and how they will affect us, just as much as the Internet affected us all. In Dot.Cloud business strategy expert and former CIO, Peter Fingar, explains the main ideas of Cloud Computing in lay terms. Peter also does some old-fashioned reporting to bring together the ideas of the movers and shakers who are actively building the Cloud.

But this is not a technical book about Cloud Computing technologies; it’s a business book. It’s about what the Cloud portends for business … about transformation in the ways companies are managed … about business models for the 21st century. It’s about how companies carry out their work in the Cloud instead of office buildings and skyscrapers, and how they manage their business processes in the Cloud. It’s also about human interactions in the Cloud, and about the end of management and the rise of self-organizing, self-managed ”Bioteams.”

Even more, it’s about unlocking human potential in business, about unleashing passion. All this points to your company’s future, and your future, set in the context of the biggest economic downturn since World War II. So ultimately, it’s about lighting a fire in you.

According to Jim Sinur, Vice President of Gartner, ”To say that we are living in interesting times is an understatement, and Peter has captured the essence of how business will work going forward. Dot.Cloud is both visionary and realistic in that each of the pieces of the vision have working examples today, but not woven together like in this writing. The goal of the virtual business platform is not just a dream, but attainable once all the contributing pieces are brought together. Peter brings them together here in a way that will work under any number of situations, across just about any industry.”

Gregory Simpson, Chief Technology Officer of GE, remarked, ”Dot.Cloud isn’t just about the Cloud; it’s really about embracing change in the workplace. It pulls together elements of Web 2.0, BPM and other dreaded three-letter acronyms, as well social and economic trends, to give you a vision for how harnessing the Cloud can transform the way your company works. Peter’s unique ability to pull all of these concepts together in an understandable fashion make this a business book for the future, and the future is now!””

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Buch – Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

Titel: Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

Autor: Adam Greenfield

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“Ubiquitous computing–almost imperceptible, but everywhere around us–is rapidly becoming a reality. How will it change us? how can we shape its emergence?
Smart buildings, smart furniture, smart clothing… even smart bathtubs. networked street signs and self-describing soda cans. Gestural interfaces like those seen in Minority Report. The RFID tags now embedded in everything from credit cards to the family pet.
All of these are facets of the ubiquitous computing author Adam Greenfield calls “everyware.” In a series of brief, thoughtful meditations, Greenfield explains how everyware is already reshaping our lives, transforming our understanding of the cities we live in, the communities we belong to–and the way we see ourselves.”

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Buch – Google Apps Deciphered: Compute in the Cloud to Streamline Your Desktop

Titel: Google Apps Deciphered: Compute in the Cloud to Streamline Your Desktop

Autor: Scott Granneman

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“Use Google Apps to Improve Productivity and Collaboration, Reduce Costs, and Eliminate Technology Hassles!

Google Apps gives you virtually all the business and productivity software you need–all of it free, or available at extremely low cost. Because the suite of Google Apps runs on Google’s network in the cloud, you avoid the hassles that go with desktop software. Getting started with Google Apps is easy–but if you want to make the most of it, you’ll need expert guidance that Google’s online help doesn’t provide. Get all the help you need, right here.

This is your start-to-finish guide to setting up Google Apps, migrating to it, customizing it, and using it to improve productivity, communications, and collaboration. Scott Granneman introduces every leading component individually, and shows exactly how to make them work together for you on the web or by integrating them with your favorite desktop apps. You’ll find practical insights on Google Apps email, calendaring, contacts, wikis, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, video, and even Google’s new web browser Chrome. And, drawing on his extensive experience helping companies move to Google Apps, Granneman presents tips and tricks you simply won’t find anywhere else. Coverage includes

  • Choosing the right edition of Google Apps for you
  • Setting up Google Apps so it will be easier to use and manage
  • Migrating your email, contacts, and calendars to Google Apps
  • Administering and securing Google Apps
  • Integrating Google Apps with other software and services
  • Leveraging Google Sites to collaborate across teams, organizations, or the entire world
  • Making the most of Google Talk voice calls and instant messaging
  • Implementing Google’s office productivity tools, including Docs, Spreadsheets, and Presentations
  • Using policy management and message recovery to control and secure your messaging
  • Customizing efficient Google Apps Start Pages for you and your colleagues
  • Sharing important and useful videos with your colleagues
  • Maximizing the innovative features of Google’s new web browser, Chrome

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Dissertation: "Scalable Cluster Technologies for Mission-Critical Enterprise Computing" von Dr. Werner Vogels

Die Dissertation “Scalable Cluster Technologies for Mission-Critical Enterprise Computing” von Dr. Werner Vogels gehört zu den grundlegenden Forschungsarbeiten des Cloud Computing. Ein Blick auf die Infrastruktur von Amazon zeigt, wer der aktuelle CTO und für den Aufbau der hochskalierbaren Infrastruktur sowie die Cloud Angebote verantwortlich ist – Werner Vogels.

Die Arbeit beschreibt Einsatzmöglichkeiten von hochskalierbaren Cluster-Technologien für den unternehmenskritischen Bereich.

Auch einer der Doktorväter der Arbeit sollte genannt werden und wird dem einen oder anderen bekannt sein – Prof.Dr. A.S. Tanenbaum.

Ein kurzer Auszug:

Enterprise computing has changed significantly in the past decade. In the past, the workloads at corporate datacenters were dominated by centralized processing using a limited number of big database servers, mainly handling online transaction processing (OLTP) and batch processing tasks in support of the back-office process. The organization of these datacenters has evolved from mainframe-oriented into a large collection of flexible application servers providing a very diverse set of services. These services still include the traditional order processing and inventory control, but now also provide internal and external information portals, continuous data-mining operations, pervasive integration of customer relationship management information, email and other collaboration services, and a variety of computational services such as financial forecasting.

An important observation is that these services have become essential to the successful operation of the enterprise, and that any service interruption, either through failure or through performance degradation, could bring the activities of the enterprise to a halt. The mission-critical nature of these services requires them to be scalable, highly-available, and with robust performance guarantees. Organizing these services into compute clusters appeared a logical step as cluster technology held the promise of cost-effective scalability and was considered to be a good basis for implementing a highly-available service organization.

Die Dissertation wurde an der Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam geschrieben und kann HIER direkt heruntergeladen werden.