Building Cloud and Virtualization Infrastructure

The book ‘Building Cloud and Virtualization Infrastructure’ covers the designing of a private cloud using various components and tools on various platforms such as AWS and OpenNebula.

This book includes network virtualization and integrated technologies such as the Internet of Things and how to create web servers/instances on Amazon Web Services and OpenNebula.

The readers will gain a better understanding of the concept of resource management, which offers benefits such as cost savings and improved manageability after reading this book. They will also learn disaster recovery, techniques, and tools to support virtualization, as well as the security challenges inherent in cloud platforms, the various IAM roles and their associated security, and various security standards.

KEY FEATURES

* Extensive demonstration of service and deployment models with related use-cases.
* Includes wide and deep practical scenarios to explore the real cloud platform.
* Broad perspective to manage resources and disaster recovery.
* Infers various security standards and IAM with numerous examples.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

* Understand the fundamentals of cloud concepts.
* Explore the knowledge of virtualization through different virtualization tools.
* Understand economic considerations to launch businesses online.
* Create your private cloud as per business needs.
* Learn to choose the right services to grow rapidly in the market.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

This book is intended for students, researchers, and anyone interested in learning about designing, configuring, and deploying cloud-based applications. The readers should have a basic understanding of networking concepts, but not necessarily of the cloud.

1. Introduction to Cloud
2. Cloud Service Models
3. Cloud Deployment Models
4. Introduction to Hypervisor
5. Introduction to Virtualization
6. Virtualization on IT Assets
7. Experimental Part: Installation and Configuration
8. Practical Approach and Experiments
9. Resource Management in Cloud
10. Security in Cloud

Mrs Lavanya Selvaraj is currently working as an Assistant Professor and has experience of 8 years. Her areas of interest include security management in networks, cloud, and distributed computing. She has published more than 20 papers in various international journals and conferences. She has received appreciation from IIT, Bombay for her extraordinary contribution in using open-source ICT tools. She has been awarded the Global Eminent Teacher award, Best teacher award (twice), Star performer award, International Young Aspirant award, and two gold medals in UG and PG, respectively. She has also enabled the private cloud setup using VMware components for the students to explore themselves on the next-generation integrated technologies. She has conducted many training programs for students and faculty development programs in which 3,000 students and 500 faculty members have got benefitted, respectively. She has published patents, copyright, book chapters, and acted as a reviewer of various journals.

Dr K. Venkatachalam received his Doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering in 2018. He has more than 13 years of academic experience and is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Cybernetics, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Králové,Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and his research interest includes Data Mining, Web services, semantic web services, Distributed computing, and Cloud Computing.

Dr. N. M. Saravana Kumar is currently working as a Professor and HOD of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur, India. He has received his Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering and M.E in Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University, Chennai.

Dr. S. Balamurugan, ACM Distinguished Speaker, received his B.Tech. degree from P.S.G.College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, and M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from Anna University, India. He has published 57 books, 300+ international journals/conferences, and 79 patents. He is the Director of Research and Development, Intelligent Research Consultancy Services (IRCs), Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. He is serving as a research consultant to many companies, startups, SMEs, and MSMEs.