• Choosing from the major Platform as a Service providers
  • Ten questions to ask when storing data in the cloud
  • How much are free cloud computing services worth?
  • Managing virtual resources in Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud
  • The technologies behind Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud
  • Connecting to virtual servers in the cloud
  • Defining the Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud
  • How public clouds limit hosted application management
  • OpSource Cloud: Under the hood
  • Using CMDBs and service catalogs to build private clouds
  • Five open source tools for building and managing clouds
  • The building blocks of private cloud
  • Adopting a private cloud strategy
  • From private cloud to hybrid cloud: Six things to consider
  • Intrusion detection in a cloud computing environment
  • Want to build a private cloud?
  • Is PCI compliance attainable in a public cloud?
  • Understanding cloud compliance issues
  • Securing data in the cloud
  • Protecting IaaS from domain name system threats
  • Remote management threatens Infrastructure as a Service security
  • The most important threat facing an IaaS cloud service
  • The best for last? Reviewing Terremark
  • Top threats in a PaaS cloud service and how to avoid them
  • VMware vCloud Express providers: Hosting.com, Logica and Melbourne IT
  • Reviewing bluelock vCloud Express
  • Mitigating the top three Software as a Service security concerns
  • Five requirements for deploying an application in a public cloud
  • Running a Web service on Google App Engine
  • Network considerations in cloud computing
  • Identifying applications for public and private clouds
  • Making sense of cloud-based SLAs
  • Meeting performance standards and SLAs in the cloud
  • Introducing the key cloud computing platforms
  • The IT clouds: IBM, Microsoft and Sun
  • Platform as a Service: Google and Force.com
  • Cloud computing skepticism: IT security and compliance
  • Amazon's EC2 and the open source cloud projects
  • Cloud computing standards: Deploying and scaling services without lock-in
  • Backup to the compute cloud
  • Cloud computing challenges: What do they mean for vCloud, Cloud Center?
  • How cloud computing will change capacity management
  • Code sample illustrates how to write Azure applications for the cloud
  • Cloud computing and application security: Issues and risks
  • Introduction to Windows Azure for developers
  • Staying profitable in the face of cloud computing, SaaS