Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling

A Complete Guide To Planning, Designing and Building a Cloud Data Center
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-12-801413-4
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 848 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1680 g

Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling establishes a framework for strategic decision-makers to facilitate the development of cloud data centers. Just as building a house requires a clear understanding of the blueprints, architecture, and costs of the project; building a cloud-based data center requires similar knowledge. The authors take a theoretical and practical approach, starting with the key questions to help uncover needs and clarify project scope. They then demonstrate probability tools to test and support decisions, and provide processes that resolve key issues. After laying a foundation of cloud concepts and definitions, the book addresses data center creation, infrastructure development, cost modeling, and simulations in decision-making, each part building on the previous. In this way the authors bridge technology, management, and infrastructure as a service, in one complete guide to data centers that facilitates educated decision making.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wu, Caesar

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Cloud-Computing, Grid-Computing

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Foundation1. Introduction2. Understanding Business Needs3. Common Challenges of Framing Business Problems

Part II: Data Centers4. Data Center Facility Planning, Site Selection and Space5. Power Management6. Cooling Strategies7. Physical Security

Part III: Infrastructure8. Servers9. Storage10. Network11. Virtualization12. Service Orchestration

Part IV: Cost Modeling13. Model Frameworks14. Leveraging Resources

Part V: Strategic Decision Making15. Monte Carlo Simulation16. Real Option Theory17. The Art of Critical Decision Making for Cloud Computing Investments18. Market-Oriented Cloud Computing

Über Autor(innen)

Wu, Caesar
Caesar Wu is a Senior Domain Specialist on Cloud Computing and Data Centers at Telstra, as well as a Principle Research Fellow, at The University of Melbourne, Australia. He has over 18 years' of experience in ICT architecture, solution design, services delivery and operation management, IT data center lifecycle and transformation. For the past five years he has been responsible for cost modeling of all Telstra cloud computing projects, for both enterprise and government clients, and designed and managed eight data centers in Australia. In 2012, Wu supervised three University of Melbourne PhD students in cloud computing strategic investment decision making.