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Cloud Computing Explained
This is a practical, pragmatic introduction to Cloud Computing: how best to think about it, and how to recognize where and when to use it—whether that’s for yourself, your team, your organization, or your clients.
What you'll learn
This is a practical, pragmatic introduction to Cloud Computing: how best to think about it, and how to recognize where and when to use it—whether that’s for yourself, your team, your organization, or your clients. You'll discover the most important ideas and concepts, make sense of the jargon—from SaaS and PaaS to public, private and hybrid clouds—and explore the marketplace of Cloud vendors and solutions.
Table of contents
- What We'll Cover, What We'll Avoid | 4m 9s
- A Few Reasons for Using Cloud Computing | 4m 1s
- Different Reasons—Same Benefits | 3m 54s
- Cloud Products and Services | 3m 16s
- Internet Connected | 1m 56s
- Third Party Hardware | 3m 13s
- Self Service On-demand | 2m 36s
- Resource Pooling | 4m 45s
- Everything as a Service | 1m 37s
- Software as a Service (SaaS) | 3m 45s
- Vertical and Horizontal SaaS | 2m 13s
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | 4m 50s
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) | 3m 22s
- Making Sense of Cloud Providers | 3m 43s
- Elastic and Serverless Computing | 3m 56s
- Cloud Deployment Options | 3m 23s
- Service Level Agreements in the Cloud | 2m 18s
About the author
With over three decades of software development experience, Simon has programmed in every discipline: from finance to transportation, nuclear reactors to game development. His first video course released back in 2002: since then, his popular courses have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of developers. Simon obsesses on making complicated subjects accessible, memorable, and easier to learn.