For senior business and IT management in small, medium, and large enterprises or government agencies who have or are contemplating using the Cloud's services to deliver application, platform, and infrastructure solutions. “Shapes In The Cloud” is a straightforward business-driven perspective on Cloud Computing challenges and opportunities for the curious and innovative among us. When you have completed reading “Shapes In The Cloud”, you should be conversant with business and IT audiences on Cloud Computing service requirements, evaluations, selection, development, implementation, and ongoing support. What is Cloud Computing? What business drivers have led us to this new paradigm? There has to be reason in there somewhere. What are the benefits from Cloud Computing? What are the limiting or inhibiting factors? What are its moving parts? How do they fit together? What is all of this granularity-in-metrics and subscription pricing about? What descriptive methods or prescriptive solutions are key components to moving toward a broad basis of Cloud Computing adoption? What are the use cases and patterns for providers and consumers to evaluate on the type of Cloud service, or the Cloud deployment model? What if you are moving from an on-premise owned-everything situation to an on-demand pay-as-you-use-it situation? How should one evaluate all of this? “Shapes In The Cloud” covers Cloud service providers and consumers, and several aspects of Cloud-related topics: virtualization, multi-tenancy, infrastructure, IaaS, platforms, PaaS, applications, SaaS, Cloud security, Cloud management, ITIL, ITSM, BSM, integrated Cloud lifecycle management, use of metrics, item granularity, Cloud pricing, usage patterns, use case scenarios for service consumer and provider, and the comparison of Waterfall development and agile Scrum development models.

Shapes In The Cloud: What Cloud Computing shapes are you looking for?

Business & Money

Nelson, Chuck

Management & Leadership

Nelson Publishing

Nature Nuggets

Science & Math

Schinkel, Richard

Nature & Ecology

Independently published

This book is available in two formats and price ranges. Both versions include the same text and over 100 images. This 8.5 X 11 version is table-top quality with full color images throughout and includes a photo essay featuring the striking views and flora and fauna of the "ranch at the end of a dirt road." "Life at the End of a Dirt Road" is a sometimes funny, sometimes poignant but always interesting view of life on a working cattle ranch. With wry humor and insight, the author recounts a vanishing way of life played out on a 1,700-acre ranch in Northern California during the mid 20th century. Mostly written from the author's perspective as an impressionable ranch kid, the book vividly describes how he learned to gig frogs, craft slingshots, milk cows and execute chickens. The reader will peer over his shoulder as he faces hair-raising perils, both real and imaginary, whether it's fetching a jar of jam from the creepy, spider-filled cellar; fending off werewolves with a shovel while irrigating after dark; or negotiating the bewildering customs of a box social at school. The reader also will meet unforgettable characters, both critters and humans, from Shep, the mighty ranch dog and his obsessive, doomed pursuit of porcupines, to Mrs. Salvadori, the wife of the previous owner, who reportedly motivated her husband to build her a new house by burning down the old one. The result is a humorous, illuminating and richly illustrated account of life at the end of a dirt road.

Life at the End of a Dirt Road

Biographies & Memoirs

AuthorHouse

This book is available in two formats and price ranges. Both versions include the same text and over 100 images. This 9 X 6 version is filled with black and white photos and ends with a series of photos from the Nelson family album depicting life on the "ranch at the end of a dirt road." "Life at the End of a Dirt Road" is a sometimes funny, sometimes poignant but always interesting view of life on a working cattle ranch. With wry humor and insight, the author recounts a vanishing way of life played out on a 1,700-acre ranch in Northern California during the mid 20th century. Mostly written from the author's perspective as an impressionable ranch kid, the book vividly describes how he learned to gig frogs, craft slingshots, milk cows and execute chickens. The reader will peer over his shoulder as he faces hair-raising perils, both real and imaginary, whether it's fetching a jar of jam from the creepy, spider-filled cellar; fending off werewolves with a shovel while irrigating after dark; or negotiating the bewildering customs of a box social at school. The reader also will meet unforgettable characters, both critters and humans, from Shep, the mighty ranch dog and his obsessive, doomed pursuit of porcupines, to Mrs. Salvadori, the wife of the previous owner, who reportedly motivated her husband to build her a new house by burning down the old one. The result is a humorous, illuminating and richly illustrated account of life at the end of a dirt road.

Reference & Collections

Chuck Nelson is sounding a warning-aliens are real, but they're not what you think they are.\nNot long ago, only conspiracy theorists talked about UFOs. But recent events have caused a shift in our thinking, prompting level-headed citizens-many of them Bible-believing Christians-to start asking, "What if?"\nLike much of America, Chuck Nelson is captivated by the slew of recent UFO videos taken by the US military. He is deeply concerned about the perception that UFOs are extraterrestrial visitors. Even more concerning is the apparent lack of theological insight from the Christian community, which has failed to address the fact that UFOs and related phenomena are a spiritual threat, not of extraterrestrial origin, but extradimensional.\nThe author presents UFO sightings as real. There is actual physical and spiritual danger in these "signs and wonders," and this warning, written from a biblical worldview, serves to equip the general public, especially the Christian church, to contend with the deception at the heart of UFOs. This book says, "Stop, look, listen. Something's happening. It's real, and it's not good."

Signs and Wonders: The UFO Deception

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Reliant Publishing

The subject of origins is one of humanity's universal questions. The who, what, how, when, where and why issues surrounding origins are both intriguing and controversial. While cultural authorities in academia and the media push an entirely naturalistic evolutionary model of origins, the observations and experience of many people prevent them fully accepting such a model. Many people, scientist and laymen alike, see evidence of creation or design in the cosmos and in life itself. They see life as something more than chance and chemistry. The author is neither a theologian nor a scientist but, as a layman, has studied the issue of origins for a number of years. In this layman to layman work, the author leads the reader through the maze of philosophical and scientific issues at play in the origins debate with the objective of affirming the belief in creation or design that so many hold.

Why I Am a Creationist: A Layman's Perspective

Go to Publish

Fishing Fundamentals, the latest book from the experts at In-Fisherman, covers equipment, tackle, baits, boats and motors, casting, cleaning and cooking, and so much more. But probably most importantly, it teaches the In-Fisherman fishing formula to the novice angler, providing a solid foundation for long-term success.

The New! Fishing Fundamentals: Fishing Fun for Everyone! (In-fisherman Library)

In-Fisherman Staff

Biological Sciences

In-Fisherman Inc

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