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Software-Defined Cloud Centers

Operational and Management Technologies and Tools

  • Provides comprehensive coverage of the technologies and platforms involved in setting up software-defined data centers
  • Presents industry-specific examples and frameworks, as well as real-world case studies
  • Offers insights from authors with extensive experience in cloud and data center technologies

Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Demystifying Software-Defined Cloud Environments

    • Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman
    Pages 13-34
  3. Software-Defined Storage (SDS) for Storage Virtualization

    • Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman
    Pages 35-64
  4. Software-Defined Network (SDN) for Network Virtualization

    • Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman
    Pages 65-89
  5. The Hybrid Cloud: The Journey Toward Hybrid IT

    • Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman
    Pages 91-110
  6. Security Management of a Software-Defined Cloud Center

    • Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman
    Pages 111-136
  7. Cloud Service Management

    • Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman
    Pages 137-153
  8. Multi-cloud Brokerage Solutions and Services

    • Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman
    Pages 155-184
  9. Automated Multi-cloud Operations and Container Orchestration

    • Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman
    Pages 185-218
  10. Multi-cloud Management: Technologies, Tools, and Techniques

    • Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman
    Pages 219-240
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 241-242

About this book

This practical text/reference provides an exhaustive guide to setting up and sustaining software-defined data centers (SDDCs). Each of the core elements and underlying technologies are explained in detail, often supported by real-world examples. The text illustrates how cloud integration, brokerage, and orchestration can ensure optimal performance and usage of data resources, and what steps are required to secure each component in a SDDC. The coverage also includes material on hybrid cloud concepts, cloud-based data analytics, cloud configuration, enterprise DevOps and code deployment tools, and cloud software engineering.

Topics and features: highlights how technologies relating to cloud computing, IoT, blockchain, and AI are revolutionizing business transactions, operations, and analytics; introduces the concept of Cloud 2.0, in which software-defined computing, storage, and networking are applied to produce next-generation cloud centers; examines software-defined storage for storage virtualization, covering issues of cloud storage, storage tiering, and deduplication; discusses software-defined networking for network virtualization, focusing on techniques for network optimization in data centers; reviews the qualities and benefits of hybrid clouds, that bridge private and public cloud environments; investigates the security management of a software-defined data center, and proposes a framework for managing hybrid IT infrastructure components; describes the management of multi-cloud environments through automated tools, and cloud brokers that aim to simplify cloud access, use and composition; covers cloud orchestration for automating application integration, testing, infrastructure provisioning, software deployment, configuration, and delivery.

This comprehensive work is an essential reference for all practitioners involved with software-defined data center technologies, hybrid clouds, cloud service management, cloud-based analytics, and cloud-based software engineering.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Reliance Jio Cloud Services, Bangalore, India

    Pethuru Raj

  • Flipkart Internet India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India

    Anupama Raman

About the authors

Dr. Pethuru Raj is Chief Architect of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Division at Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (RJIL), Bangalore, India. His other publications include the Springer titles Automated Workflow Scheduling in Self-Adaptive Clouds and (with Mrs. Raman) High-Performance Big-Data Analytics.

Mrs. Anupama Raman works at Flipkart Internet India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India.

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 49.99
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Hardcover Book USD 49.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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