Cloud Networking Simplified An Illustrated Guide to Cloud Networking Concepts and Business Models

Cloud networking is revolutionizing the way IT and networked services are delivered. As a result, thousands of executives, investors, marketers, and other business and technical professionals have found that their understanding of networking is now outdated. For many of these individuals, typical cloud networking books are far too technical and detailed. Cloud Networking Simplified is the solution.

This uniquely visual and intuitive primer presents high-level accessible answers through brief, illustrated sections packed with easy-to-understand, full-color diagrams and infographics — in essence, a “chalk-talk approach” in which each 1-4 page section demonstrates a single concept. It has been designed from the ground up to provide a starting point for everyone who needs to understand the fundamentals of the cloud networking revolution: both the business and the technology. The authors provide a birds-eye view of topics including:

• Cloud concepts, definitions, solutions, technologies, components, applications, and business models
• The business case for customers, and the business/technical drivers of cloud networking
• Answers to elementary questions such as: “What happens to my data in the cloud?”
• Practical insights about SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and private/public/hybrid clouds
• Essential primers on securing clouds and managing them on a day-to-day basis

Tentative TOC:

Part I: Cloud 101: the Basics They All Assume You Know

1. Defining the Cloud

2. Cloud Attributes

3. What Are Virtual Machines?

4. A Map of the Clouds

Part II: What’s Wrong With the Old Network?

5. A Look Back at Data Centers

6. The Data Economy

7. Flexible Workloads

8. Why Charge Backs Are Impossible

9. What’s Broken

10. We’ve Been Here Before

Part III: How Clouds Are Built

11. Virtual Machines: A Closer Look

12. Hypervisors

13. Connectivity

14. Multi-tenancy

15. Hosting Services

16. Management

Part IV: Cloud Economics

17. Power Consumption

18. Upgrades and Truck Rolls

19. Finances

20. Metering and Billing

21. Low Margins

Part V: Cloud Networking

22. Networking within an IaaS deployment

23. Layer 1-2 (Gone)

24. Layer 3 (IP including V6)

25. Layer 4-7

26. Load Balancing

27. WAN Optimization

28. Virtual Appliance

29. Service

30. Firewall

31. Where is the New Perimeter?

Part VI: Cloud Security

32. Where’s My Data, Exactly?

33. Preventing Data Leakage

34. Logging and Auditing

35. Server Security Tools in the Cloud

36. Troubleshooting

37. Privacy and Segmentation

38. Encryption in the Cloud (at rest)

39. Encryption to and through the Cloud (in motion)

Part VII: Saas

40. SaaS The big Picture

41. Multi-tenancy in SaaS: Not Your Father’s Virtual Machine

42. Network Topologies to Get to SaaS

43. Accessing SaaS Quickly

44. Accessing SaaS Securely

Part VIII: IaaS

45. IaaS: The Big Picture

46. Connecting to IaaS from Outside the Cloud

47. Connecting 2 Clouds Together

48. Connecting Your Users to Your IaaS

Part IX: PaaS

49. PaaS: the Big Picture

50. Application Frameworks

51. Hosting Services

Part X: The Big Picture

52. Putting it All Together

53. How the Cloud Affects You

54. What’s Next?

Part XI: A How to use the Cloud Primer

55. IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS?

56. Private or Public or Hybrid?

57. What Virtual Machines?

58. How Many Clouds?

59. Hands on Security

60. Who Will Run It?