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
- A Few Reasons for Using Cloud Computing 4m
- Different Reasons—Same Benefits 4m
- Cloud Products and Services 3m
- Internet Connected 2m
- Third Party Hardware 3m
- Self Service On-demand 3m
- Resource Pooling 5m
- Everything as a Service 2m
- Software as a Service (SaaS) 4m
- Vertical and Horizontal SaaS 2m
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) 5m
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) 3m
- Making Sense of Cloud Providers 4m
- Elastic and Serverless Computing 4m
- Cloud Deployment Options 3m
- Service Level Agreements in the Cloud 2m
About the author
Simon is Creative Director and Principal Author at Pluralsight. With over three decades of software development experience, he's programmed in every discipline: from finance to transportation, nuclear reactors to game development. Prior to joining Pluralsight, Simon was the principal developer author at lynda.com. His first video course released back in 2002: since then, his popular courses have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of developers. His current focus is both on the new — the latest... more