Private Cloud Computing: Consolidation; Virtualization; and Service-Oriented Infrastructure

Private cloud computing enables you to consolidate diverse enterprise systems into one that is cloud-based and can be accessed by end-users seamlessly, regardless of their location or changes in overall demand. Expert authors Steve Smoot and Nam K. Tan distill their years of networking experience to describe how to build enterprise networks to create a private cloud. With their techniques you'll create cost-saving designs and increase the flexibility of your enterprise, while maintaining the security and control of an internal network. Private Cloud Computing offers a complete cloud arc.

Front Cover; Private Cloud Computing: Consolidation, Virtualization,and Service-OrientedInfrastructure; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Who shouuld Read this Book; Who Shouldn't Read this Book; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Next-Generation IT Trends; Introduction; Layers of function: the service-oriented infrastructure framework; Blocks of function: the cloud modules; Server module; Storage module; SAN extension; Fabric module; WAN module; Network virtualization; WAN optimization; End-user Type I-branch office; End-user Type II-mobile

Cloud computing characteristicsCloud computing taxonomy; Deployment models; Service models; Tying it all together; Summary; Chapter 2: Next-Generation Data Center Architectures and Technologies; Introduction; The data center consolidation and virtualization modus operandi; Server consolidation drivers; The Classic Server Sprawl Syndrome; Application silos and stovepiped data; Server Virtualization; Virtual Machines and Hypervisor; VMware Networking Primer; ESX Server networking components; vNIC MAC addresses and VM migration; The limitations of vNetwork standard switch

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