Top 5 Books on Cloud Computing: PaaS, IaaS, SaaS | Public and Private

Go to Amazon and search for books on Cloud Computing and up pops a deep collection of thoughtful offerings both old and new. We’ve chosen to highlight 5 of the newest releases. Below is the list along with an excerpt as well as a link for each at the Amazon book store.

Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS)By Michael J. Kavis – An expert guide to selecting the right cloud service model for your business, allowing for the delivery of computing and storage capacity to a diverse community of end-recipients. Helping you cut through all the haze, Architecting the Cloud is vendor neutral and guides you in making one of the most critical technology decisions that you will face: selecting the right cloud service model(s) based on a combination of both business and technology requirements.

Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture (The Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl)By Thomas Erl – Is for beginners looking to learn more about cloud computing and gives a broad over view of the topic. Erl teams up with cloud computing experts and researchers to break down cloud computing technologies and practices. The book also establishes business-centric models and metrics that allow for the financial assessment of cloud-based IT resources and their comparison to those hosted on traditional IT enterprise premises. It also provides templates and formulas for calculating SLA-related quality-of-service values and numerous explorations of the SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.

Cloud Computing Explained: Implementation Handbook for EnterprisesBy John Rhoton – This book describes the benefits and challenges of Cloud Computing and 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.

Enterprise Cloud Computing: A Strategy Guide for Business and Technology LeadersBy Andy Mullholland – This book  provides strategic insights, describes the breakout business models and offers the planning and implementation guidance business and technology leaders need to chart their course ahead. No one needs to know more about the business implications of Cloud Computing than C-level executives responsible for the future of their organizations, the wow isn’t just about technology, it’s about the promise of on-demand business innovation.

Cloud Security and Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance (Theory in Practice)By Tim Mather- This book will teach you what’s at stake when you trust your data to the cloud and what you can do to keep your virtual infrastructure and web applications secure. Ideal for IT staffers, information security and privacy practitioners, business managers, service providers, and investors alike, this book offers you sound advice from three well-known authorities in the tech security world. You’ll learn detailed information on cloud computing security that-until now-has been sorely lacking.