Applies lean manufacturing principles across the cloud service delivery chain to enable application and infrastructure service providers to sustainably achieve the shortest lead time, best quality, and valueApplies lean thinking across the cloud service delivery chain to recognize and minimize wasteLeverages lessons learned from electric power industry operations to operations of cloud infrastructureApplies insights from just-in-time inventory management t...

Many enterprises are moving their applications and IT services to the cloud. Better risk management results in fewer operational surprises and failures, greater stakeholder confidence and reduced regulatory concerns; proactive risk management maximizes the likelihood that an enterprise’s objectives will be achieved, thereby enabling organizational success. This work methodically considers the risks and opportunities that an enterprise taking their applications or services onto the cloud mu...

This book explains why applications running on cloud might not deliver the same service reliability, availability, latency and overall quality to end users as they do when the applications are running on traditional (non-virtualized, non-cloud) configurations, and explains what can be done to mitigate that risk.

A holistic approach to service reliability and availability of cloud computingReliability and Availability of Cloud Computing provides IS/IT system and solution architects, developers, and engineers with the knowledge needed to assess the impact of virtualization and cloud computing on service reliability and availability. It reveals how to select the most appropriate design for reliability diligence to assure that user expectations are met.Organiz...

While geographic redundancy can obviously be a huge benefit for disaster recovery, it is far less obvious what benefit is feasible and likely for more typical non-catastrophic hardware, software, and human failures. Georedundancy and Service Availability provides both a theoretical and practical treatment of the feasible and likely benefits of geographic redundancy for both service availability and service reliability. The text provides network/system planners, IS/IT operations fo...

Clouds are distributed technology platforms that leverage sophisticated technology innovations to provide highly scalable and resilient environments that can be remotely utilized by organizations in a multitude of powerful ways. To successfully build upon, integrate with, or even create a cloud environment requires an understanding of its common inner mechanics, architectural layers, and models, as well as an understanding of the business and economic factors that result from the adoption ...

Large IT organizations increasingly face the challenge of integrating various web services, applications, and other technologies into a single network. The solution to finding a meaningful large-scale architecture that is capable of spanning a global enterprise appears to have been met in ESB, or Enterprise Service Bus. Rather than conform to the hub-and-spoke architecture of traditional enterprise application integration products, ESB provides a highly distributed approach to integration,...

The definitive guide to dimensional design for your data warehouseLearn the best practices of dimensional design. Star Schema: The Complete Reference offers in-depth coverage of design principles and their underlying rationales. Organized around design concepts and illustrated with detailed examples, this is a step-by-step guidebook for beginners and a comprehensive resource for experts.This all-inclusive volume begins with dimensional design fundamentals and sho...

Completely revised and updated for the 2015 CISSP body of knowledge, this new edition by Fernando Maymì continues Shon Harris’s bestselling legacy, providing a comprehensive overhaul of the content that is the leading chosen resource for CISSP exam success, and has made Harris the #1 name in IT security certification.This bestselling self-study guide fully prepares candidates for the challenging Certified Information Systems Security Professional exam and ...

This self-study guide delivers 100% coverage of all topics on the new CCSP examThis highly effective test preparation guide covers all six domains within the CCSP Body of Knowledge, as established both by CSA and the (ISC)2. The book offers clear explanations of every subject on the brand-new CCSP exam and features accurate practice questions and real-world examples.Written by a respected computer security expert, CCSPCertified Cloud Security Profession...

Save 12% on This CISSP Boxed Set—Plus Bonus DVD! This money-saving CISSP boxed set from the #1 name in IT security certification and training includes: CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Sixth Edition Up-to-date coverage of all 10 CISSP exam domains Electronic content—1400+ practice exam questions, video training module, and a downloadable Adobe Digital Editions eBook CISSP Practice Exams, Second Edition 250+ practice exa...

Don't Let the Real Test Be Your First Test! Written by the leading expert in IT security certification and training, CISSP Practice Exams is filled with hundreds of realistic practice exam questions based on the latest release of the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam. To aid in your understanding of the material, in-depth explanations of both the correct and incorrect answers are included for every question. This practical guide covers all 10 CISSP exam doma...