Cloud Computing: Business Trends and Technologies

Cloud Computing: Business Trends and Technologies provides a broad introduction to Cloud computing technologies and their applications to IT and telecommunications businesses (i.e., the network function virtualization, NFV). To this end, the book is expected to serve as a textbook in a graduate course on Cloud computing.

The book examines the business cases and then concentrates on the technologies necessary for supporting them. In the process, the book addresses the principles of – as well as the known problems with – the underlying technologies, such as virtualization, data communications, network and operations management, security and identity management. It introduces, through open-source case studies (based on OpenStack), an extensive illustration of lifecycle management.

The book also looks at the existing and emerging standards, demonstrating their respective relation to each topic.

Overall, this is an authoritative textbook on this emerging and still-developing discipline, which

• Guides the reader through basic concepts, to current practices, to state-of-the-art applications.
• Considers technical standards bodies involved in Cloud computing standardization.
• Is written by innovation experts in operating systems and data communications, each with over 20 years’ experience in business, research, and teaching.

About the Authors

This book was written while the authors worked in the CloudBand Business Unit at Alcatel-Lucent. CloudBand, founded by Dor Skuler, is a market-leading platform for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

Igor Faynberg, Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department of Stevens Institute of Technology, is a Bell Labs Fellow. At the time of writing this book, he was a senior architect in charge of NFV security, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer of CloudBand.

Previous to that he had held various staff and managerial positions in Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent business units. In his Bell Labs career, he has influenced the development of several software technologies—from mathematical programming to Intelligent Network and Internet/PSTN convergence to virtualization. He has contributed to and held various leadership positions in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and European Telecommunication Standardization Institute (ETSI), where he presently serves as Chairman of the ETSI NFV Security working group. He has served on technical committees of several IEEE conferences, and he holds numerous patents for the inventions related to technologies that he had developed.

Igor has also co-authored two books and numerous refereed papers. He holds a Mathematics Diploma from Kharkov University, Ukraine, and MS and PhD degrees in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Hui-Lan Lu is a Bell Labs Fellow at Alcatel-Lucent, where she has conducted research and development in various areas, including mathematical programming, service creation, IP multimedia communication, quality of service in converged networks, and security.

She has been also involved in strategic standards efforts in the IETF, ITU, and ETSI. More recently, she has served as Rapporteur for the ETSI NFV case study of OpenStack security and Vice Chairman of ITU-T SG 13 (the lead study group on Cloud Computing and future networks).

Hui-Lan has co-authored a book on converged networks and services, and numerous refereed papers. She holds a PhD degree in physics from Yale University in New Haven and has over 40 patents.

Dor Skuler formerly served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the CloudBand Business Unit at Alcatel-Lucent, which he founded. Prior to this role, Dor served as Vice President of Strategy and Head of Corporate Development for Alcatel-Lucent in its corporate headquarters in Paris. Previously Dor had held entrepreneurial roles such as General Manager of Mobile Security, a new venture in Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs and Enterprise Business Divisions.

Before joining Alcatel-Lucent, Dor served as Vice-President of Business Development and Marketing at Safend, an endpoint security company. Dor also founded and served as President of Zing Interactive Media, a venture-backed startup company in the field of mobile interactive media.

Dor holds a Master's of Science in Marketing and an MBA in International Business. Dor was selected in Global Telecom Business' "40 under 40" list in 2009, 2011 and 2013 and is often invited to speak in industry events and is interviewed by the global press.