(Ebook) Hybrid Cloud Strategy For Dummies®, Red Hat® and Intel® Special Edition by Ed Tittel & Gordon Haff & Stephane Lefrere & Matt Nolan & Julio Villarreal Pelegrino & Marty Wesley

(Ebook) Hybrid Cloud Strategy For Dummies®, Red Hat® and Intel® Special Edition by Ed Tittel & Gordon Haff & Stephane Lefrere & Matt Nolan & Julio Villarreal Pelegrino & Marty Wesley

Cloud computing is proliferating and taking over the world of IT as we know it. Cloud computing also growsmore complex and multi‐faceted daily. Organizations cancreate their own private cloud infrastructures in‐house, signup for services from public cloud providers like Amazon WebServices (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure, orcreate hybrid environments. Other vital choices come closebehind. Architects and engineers must deal with an array ofconnections, integrations, portability issues among clouds,resource options, orchestration, storage, and more. Andsomehow it must all be managed and maintained.You can probably see why a carefully thought‐out anddetailed approach to cloud computing — a strategy, in otherwords — is so important.About This BookThis book’s topics are laid out in a logical order. But you don’thave to read it that way unless you want to. Even so, we thinkChapter 1 is a great place to start. That said, if you see a topicthat catches your fancy, jump ahead (and around) the book asyou like. Each chapter can stand on its own, so you can chartyour own course. Read it in any order you like (but it’s probably not smart to read it backwards).Jumping onto the cloud is easy. Getting it right is somewhattrickier. Getting it right for the long term is even more challenging. A good cloud strategy helps you and your organization work things out, makes sure all the bits and pieces fittogether well, and improves the odds of realizing your business goals. We hope that, if you read this book in its entirety,you’ll agree that you’ve been handed the ingredients and asequence of steps to put such a strategy together.