Cloud Computing Hardware Aspects

This section presents hardware concerns encountered in Cloud Computing environments in the area of virtualization and storage management.

Topics such as

• Virtualization
• Hardware versus Software Virtualization
• The Anatomy of Storage
• Storage Virtualization
• Storage Area Network
• File Area Network
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Public Cloud Deployment
• Availability and Performance
• Disaster Recovery

and more can be found in this series.

CONTENTS:

• Virtualization
• Virtualization – Types, Tools, Categories
• Hardware versus Software Virtualization
• The Anatomy of Storage: Disk Drives
• Storage Virtualization
• Storage Area Network (SAN)
• File Area Network (FAN)
• File Area Network Service Providers
• Virtualization – P2V Migration
• Infrastructure as a Service and Public Cloud Deployment – Amazon Web Services
• Non Functional Requirements: Availability and Performance
• Disaster Recovery