Cloud Infrastructure and Services: Concepts and Technologies Essential for Transforming to IT as a Service

The official guide from EMC, the world's largest data storage company Cloud computing allows enterprises to get their applications up and running faster, improves manageability, reduces upfront infrastructure costs, and enables IT to quickly adjust resources as business demands fluctuate. Mastery of cloud infrastructure enhances an IT professional's value to the organization. Written by the team at EMC Education Services, this text is a complete cloud technologist course, covering cloud deployment and service models, virtualized infrastructure, cloud service creation and management and the key considerations in migrating to cloud computing. It covers the technologies required to build virtualized, and cloud data center environments, including compute, storage, and networking, as well as to implement desktop and application virtualization, cloud services, business continuity, and security. You'll learn key considerations and steps in transforming your data center and your organization to the cloud. And if you choose to pursue the EMC Cloud Associate (EMCCLA) certification, this reference will help you prepare.Cloud technology provides the enterprise with business agility, cost savings, faster implementation, reduced maintenance, and improved manageabilityThis official EMC text provides a complete cloud training course for IT professionals and can be used to study for the EMC Cloud Associate (EMCCLA) certificationCovers building virtualized and cloud data centers, business continuity, security, virtual infrastructure and management, and key steps required to transition from a traditional to a cloud-based environmentExamines cloud service models, deployment models, brokers, application and desktop implications, service creation, and much moreCloud Infrastructure and Services will prepare you to competently and confidently implement and manage a cloud-based environment.