Moving To The Cloud: Developing Apps in the New World of Cloud Computing

Moving to the Cloud provides an in-depth introduction to cloud computing models, cloud platforms, application development paradigms, concepts and technologies. The authors particularly examine cloud platforms that are in use today. They also describe programming APIs and compare the technologies that underlie them. The basic foundations needed for developing both client-side and cloud-side applications covering compute/storage scaling, data parallelism, virtualization, MapReduce, RIA, SaaS and Mashups are covered. Approaches to address key challenges of a cloud infrastructure, such as scalability, availability, multi-tenancy, security and management are addressed. The book also lays out the key open issues and emerging cloud standards that will drive the continuing evolution of cloud computing.

• Includes complex case studies of cloud solutions by cloud experts from Yahoo! , Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe and HP Labs.
• Presents insights and techniques for creating compelling rich client applications that interact with cloud services.
• Demonstrates and distinguishes features of different cloud platforms using simple to complex API programming examples.

About the Authors

Dr. Dinkar Sitaram is a Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard, Systems Technology and Software Division, in Bangalore, India. He is one of the key individuals responsible for driving file systems and storage strategy, including cloud storage. Dr. Sitaram is also responsible for University Relations, and Innovation activities at HP. His R&D efforts have resulted in over a dozen granted US patents. He is co-author of Multimedia Servers: Applications, Environments and Design. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. Dr. Sitaram received his Ph. D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his B. Tech from IIT Kharagpur. He joined as a research staff member in IBM's Research Division at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. At IBM, Dr. Sitaram received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award (an IBM Corporate Award) as well as IBM Research Division Award and several IBM Invention Achievement Awards for his patents and research. He also received outstanding paper awards for his work, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of High-Speed Networking.

Subsequently, he returned to India as Director of the Technology Group at Novell Corp. Bangalore. The group developed many innovative products in addition to filing for many patents and standards proposals. Dr. Sitaram received Novell's Employee of the Year award. Before joining HP, Dr. Sitaram was CTO at Andiamo Systems India (a storage networking startup later acquired by Cisco), responsible for architecture and technical direction of an advanced storage management solution.

Geetha Manjunath is a Senior Research Scientist and Master Technologist at Hewlett Packard Research Labs in India. She has been with HP since 1997 working on research issues in multiple systems technologies. During these years, she has developed many innovative solutions and published many papers in the area of Embedded Systems, Java Virtual Machine, Mobility, Grid Computing, Storage Virtualization and Semantic Web. She is currently leading a research project on cloud services for simplifying web access for emerging markets. As a part of this research, she conceptualized the notion of Tasklets and lead the development of a cloud-based solution called SiteOnMobile that enables consumers to access web tasks on low-end phones via SMS and Voice. The solution was awarded the NASCOM Innovation Award 2009 and has been given a status of "HP Legend". It was also the winner of Technology Review India's 2010 Grand Challenges for Technologists (2010 TRGC) in the healthcare category.

Before joining HP, she was a senior technical member at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore for 7 years – where was a core member of PARAS system software team for a PARAM supercomputer and she lead a research team to develop parallel compilers for distributed memory machines.

She is a gold medalist from Indian Institute of Science where she did her Masters in Computer Science in 1991 and pursuing Ph. D at the time of this writing. She was awarded the TR Shammanna Best Student award from Bangalore University in the Bachelors degree for topping across all branches of Engineering. She holds four US patents with many more pending grant.