Book Review: Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise A Step-by-Step Guide

Book Review: Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise A Step-by-Step Guide by David S. Linthicum: Publisher- Addison Wesley: ISBN- 13: 978-0-13-600922-1

In this book David does a fantastic job of showing that SOA and Cloud are two faces of same coin. Cloud Computing is natural extension of SOA. Book is written keeping business executives in consideration. For technical folks this may seems to be boring and very shallow but for Business Executives this book has covered lot of ground. David has developed a fine business case for Cloud computing through out the book and explains different services of cloud computing in very seamless fashion.

David has introduces a model for various services Cloud offers in start of book and then majority of book is devoted to elaboration of that model. This model seems to be very comprehensive and agonistic to various offerings in the market. The biggest drawback I see in this book is that there is no or very little reference to existing cloud offerings in the market. Nevertheless, book is good read and introduces cloud computing to business folks in very easy manner.

I hope in future there will be some similar books which will cloud computing from technical perspective.

Disclaimer: I did not get paid to review this book, and I do not stand to gain anything if you buy the book. I have no relationship with the publisher or the author.

Further reading: Following are the book covering cloud computing:
1. Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud by George Reese (http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Application-Architectures-Applications-Infrastructure/dp/0596156367)
2. Cloud Security and Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance by Tim Mather (http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Security-Privacy-Enterprise-Perspective/dp/0596802765)
3. Cloud Computing, A Practical Approach by Anthony T. Velte, Toby J. Velte and Robert Elsenpeter (http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Computing-Practical-Approach-Velte/dp/0071626948)
4. Dot Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform Built on Cloud Computing by Peter Fingar (http://www.amazon.com/Dot-Cloud-Business-Platform-Computing/dp/0929652495)
5. Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security by John W. Rittinghouse (http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Computing-Implementation-Management-Security/dp/1439806802)


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