A Quick Start Guide to Cloud Computing: Moving Your Business into the Cloud

by Dr Mark I Williams

Cloud computing has caused a marketing fog, confusing business executives seeking to understand the technology's potential applications and business benefits. A Quick-Start Guide to Cloud Computing cuts through the industry hype and provides non-technical explanations about what it is and how it can improve your business.

With case studies from large and small business, it shows how enabling a remote workforce and sharing resources can reduce your organisation's carbon footprint. It the benefits of cloud computing; how to choose the right supplier and technologies for your particular business; key security issues and the perils and pitfalls to avoid.

This Quick Start Guide puts business needs before technology, enabling you to make confident decisions about IT strategy, make the right choices for your business and reject 'solutions' that fix problems you don't have.

Genres: Business

152 pages, Paperback

First published October 3, 2010

Reviews

[Mohan Vemulapalli · Rating 4 out of 5]

"A quick Start Guide to Cloud Computing" is a dated but still useful introduction to cloud computing in the enterprise that will be useful to technical and non technical readers alike. The book focuses on th fundamentals of cloud computing and explores the different types of clouds and services. Written in 2010 it is obviously devoid of material on recent technological developments but this is not a major issue since the book focuses on basic foundational concepts that anyone planning to work with cloud technologies will need to understand

[Muhammad Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recommended book - if you want to get up and running on what Cloud Computing is , what are the pre-requisites which service and deployment models are making it a disruptive force, then this book will help you get there. Also it tells you the benefits and the associated risks for going with Cloud Computing.

[David Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book I read to research this post was A Quick Start Guide To Cloud Computing by Mark I Williams which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. This book looks at your options for setting up cloud computing services for your business. It represents a very exciting time where a company won't have to upgrade their computers as often as the processing is mostly done by the cloud service. There are 3 major types of cloud service, software as a service, platform as a service & infrastructure as a service. The latter 2 are referred to as being part of hybrid computing & community computing respectively. Many cloud services offer a limited function free service which lets you try before you buy. Also it's worth searching in a search engine for SAAS directories. These list many of the smaller companies which are cloud service providers and may be cheaper than the larger companies. The cloud service providers can afford top notch security which might be difficult for a lone small company to afford. The author of the book does say there aren't many instances where cloud services have been hacked because they now how vital it is that a client companies data is safe. The amount of downtime a cloud service needs for things like routine maintenance etc compares favourable on the whole to what a companies physical network would need.

[Lance Greenfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good overview of the cloud and what to look for in SaaS, IaaS and PaaS. Some good advice and a nice glossary of terms at the end. Great background which will stimulate further research and even some action.

[Gary · Rating 3 out of 5]

A handy little book explaining the benefits and drawbacks of businesses using cloud computing. Not quite for the layman.

Was okay.

[Heslei · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a great review for cloud business.