Moving to the Cloud  (English, Paperback, Sitaram Dinkar)

Discover how Cloud Computing has begun to shape the world and the way applications are developed in Moving To The Cloud.

Summary of the Book

An authoritative book on cloud computing for computer professionals, it covers the different models of cloud computing, showing how applications can be developed to utilize the technology for better data access. Focussing on the technology of the hour, the book also discusses programming APIs for developing client-side and cloud-side applications for storage scaling, data parallelism, virtualization, MapReduce, RIA, SaaS and Mashups. The book includes case studies in the field of cloud solutions and demonstrates the multiple facets of the subject. In addition it covers different cloud platforms using various levels of API programming examples.

About the Authors

Dinkar Sitaram is a Professor of Computer Science at PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore. He has over 27 years of experience in the computer science industry, including companies such as IBM T. J. Watson Research and CTO at HP STSD.

Dr. Sitaram received the IBM Corporate Award and holds the rights to several Patents. He has also written Multimedia Servers.

Geetha Manjunath is the Area Manager of Analytics at Xerox Innovation Group. She has also worked at Hewlett Packard Laboratories India as a Principal Research Scientist and Research Manager.

A gold-medalist from the Indian Institute of Science, Dr. Manjunath has also worked with multiple research projects in crowd sourcing, cloud computing, data mining, semantic web, mobility, distributed computing, compilers, and embedded systems