An Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing
An Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing is for every technical and business decision-maker responsible for evaluating, planning, implementing, operating, or optimizing cloud systems. It offers exceptional value to professionals ranging from solution architects to cloud engineers, CTOs to enterprise consultants, or those just starting their cloud computing journey.
- What cloud providers don't tell you about their storage and computing services
- Cloud-based artificial intelligence and machine learning: What are you paying for?
- Containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development: truth versus hype
- Multicloud: Which approaches save you money?
- Real-world cloud security: beyond silos, black boxes, and out-of-control complexity
- Cloud computing, carbon footprints, and sustainability: reality versus fiction
- The crucial role of talent: how to identify, find, and keep the skills you need
- How cloud computing is changing―and how to prepare for what's coming
Enterprise Application Integration
Effective integration of applications and data sources provides organizations with a competitive edge by leveraging company data and technology for increased efficiency and profitability. However, IT managers face significant challenges, including disparate legacy systems and varied hardware and networking technologies.
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) offers a solution, enabling seamless communication between business processes and data across applications. This comprehensive guide to EAI covers its goals, approaches, supporting technologies, and implementation roadmap. It explains the four major types of EAI—data-level, application interface-level, method-level, and user interface-level—and discusses middleware models and technologies, such as application servers, message-oriented middleware, and distributed objects.
The book also addresses implementing an EAI solution, including identifying data sources, building an enterprise metadata model, process integration, mapping information movement, selecting technologies, testing, and maintenance. It covers integrating packaged applications, supply chain integration, the role of XML, and process automation. This resource is essential for anyone involved in EAI, providing a clear understanding of its nature, tools, techniques, and how to apply them for a significant business advantage.
Next Generation Application Integration
Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services is a detailed exploration of services integration, providing valuable insights into leveraging future integration technologies. It delves into key Web services technologies essential for implementing the next-generation integration architecture. Whether you're contemplating a transition from Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to Web services or seeking to enhance your understanding of integration concepts, this resource equips you with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the evolving landscape of services integration.
B2B Application Integration
In B2B Application Integration, noted enterprise application integration expert David Linthicum presents a timely, sophisticated introduction to middleware: the glue that holds today's rapidly changing e-Business IT infrastructures together.
This book covers all aspects of e-Business integration, from concepts to technology, helping any IT professional understand how to leverage middleware to achieve business goals. Linthicum introduces each key technology enabling B2B application integration, including message brokers, application servers, XML, Microsoft's BizTalk initiative, Internet-enabled EDI, and more. Using real-world case studies and examples, he shows how to define an e-Business technical strategy that aligns with the objectives of the business; how to architect superior integrated B2B systems and infrastructure; and how to make the most of today's best tactical tools and techniques. For all IT managers, application integrators, and system architects concerned with delivering B2B systems that integrate diverse applications, both within the enterprise and beyond its borders.
Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise
Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: a Step-by-Step Guide offers valuable insights into the challenges IT executives and developers will likely encounter during a cloud computing transition. It examines the complexities of such a shift, including security concerns, data migration issues, and the need for new skill sets. By addressing these challenges head-on, the book equips readers with the knowledge and strategies needed to successfully navigate the transition to cloud computing, ensuring a smooth and efficient migration process.