Springer Operationalizing Multi-Cloud Environments: Technologies, Tools and Use Cases (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)

This book discusses various aspects of the multi-cloud paradigm. The initial portion of the book focuses on the motivations for the industry to embrace a multi-cloud option and the distinct business, technology, and user cases of multi-cloud implementations. The middle part of the book explains the challenges of setting up and sustaining multi-cloud environments. The latter portion focuses on the next-generation technologies and tools along with multi-cloud platforms, processes, patterns, and practices. The final segment of the book is dedicated for cloud brokerage systems. The various traits and tenets of cloud brokerage services especially for accomplishing cloud intermediation, integration, orchestration, governance, security, management, configuration, etc. are explained in detail. The book also clearly articulates how to have intelligent brokers. From the Back Cover This book discusses various aspects of the multi-cloud paradigm. The initial portion of the book focuses on the motivations for the industry to embrace a multi-cloud option and the distinct business, technology, and user cases of multi-cloud implementations. The middle part of the book explains the challenges of setting up and sustaining multi-cloud environments. The latter portion focuses on the next-generation technologies and tools along with multi-cloud platforms, processes, patterns, and practices. The final segment of the book is dedicated for cloud brokerage systems. The various traits and tenets of cloud brokerage services especially for accomplishing cloud intermediation, integration, orchestration, governance, security, management, configuration, etc. are explained in detail. The book also clearly articulates how to have intelligent brokers. Extracts the infrastructural, platform, and process based solutions for strengthening the expected service outcomes for multi-cloud environments; Presents deployments of enterprise-grade applications, efficient resource management, and intelligent cloud brokerage layer for enhanced multi-cloud life cycle; Includes solutions to privacy and security concerns of multi-cloud environments. About the Author N. Rajganesh is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India. He obtained PhD degree from Anna University during the year 2018 for his thesis entitled “Fuzzy based Intelligent Semantic Cloud Service Discovery for Effective Utilization of Services”. Having 15.5 years of experience in Teaching, he has contributed to research findings in various reputed international Journals. During his career, he has attended more than 20 Faculty Development Program/Workshop/Seminar, which are sponsored by AICTE, UGC, ISTE, and Anna University. He has functioned as resource person in more than 10 Faculty Development Programme and organized seminars and workshops. He is functioning as an active reviewer for top-notch journals from IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, and other publishers..   Pethuru Raj is working as the chief architect and vice-president in the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) division of Reliance Jio Platforms Ltd. Bangalore. His previous stints are in IBM global Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE), Wipro consulting services (WCS), and Robert Bosch Corporate Research (CR). In total, he has gained more than 19 years of IT industry experience and 8 years of research experience. Having finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree at Anna University, Chennai, he continued with the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. He published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM,