FREE EBOOK - Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure 
by Carl Rabeler
SQL Server is Microsoft's relational database management system (RDBMS). SQL Server can now be hosted entirely in Microsoft Azure, either in a hosted virtual machine (VM) or as a hosted service. Hosting a virtual machine in Azure is known as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and hosting a service in Azure is known as platform as a service (PaaS). Microsoft's hosted version of SQL Server is known...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
Build Your Own PaaS with Docker
by Oskar Hane
Docker is a great tool in many ways for developers and people in DevOps.We begin by learning how easy it is to create and publish your own customized Docker images and making them available to everyone. We also see how practical it is to separate every service to its own container. When you have published separated service containers, the process of running all kinds of platforms in the same server is a wal...
Price: $18.71 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
FREE EBOOK - Data Protection for the Hybrid Cloud
by Shreesh Dubey, Vijay Tandra Sistla, Shivam Garg, Aashish Ramdas, Mitch Tulloch
If you are responsible for architecting and designing the backup strategy for your organization, especially if you're looking for ways to incorporate cloud backup into your business continuity scenarios, this book is for you. With the increasing trends in virtualization as well as the move to the pubic cloud, IT organizations are headed toward a world where data and applications run in on-premises priv...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2015
Beginning Amazon Web Services with Node.js
by Adam Shackelford
Beginning Amazon Web Services with Node.js teaches any novice Node.js developer to configure, deploy, and maintain scalable small to large scale Node.js applications in Amazon Web Services. Hosting a Node.js application in a production environment usually means turning to PaaS hosting, but this approach brings problems. Deploying Node.js directly to AWS solves the problems you encounter in these situations,...
Price: $45.00 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Marshall Copeland, Julian Soh, Anthony Puca, Mike Manning, David Gollob
Written for IT and business professionals, this book provides the technical and business insight needed to plan, deploy and manage the services provided by the Microsoft Azure cloud. Find out how to integrate the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) models with your existing business infrastructure while maximizing availability, ensuring continuity and safety of your data, and...
Price: $31.19 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
iOS eCommerce App Development with Parse
by Liangjun Jiang
iOS eCommerce App Development with Parse uses a real-world app example to teach you how to build a complete eCommerce iPhone app powered by Parse - the most popular and powerful Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider.In this comprehensive guide you will learn about collecting application requirements, architecting the app, designing the user interface, creating the data model, managing products and the shopp...
Price: $42.03 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Debarchan Sarkar
Pro Microsoft HDInsight is a complete guide to deploying and using Apache Hadoop on the Microsoft Windows Azure Platforms. The information in this book enables you to process enormous volumes of structured as well as non-structured data easily using HDInsight, which is Microsoft's own distribution of Apache Hadoop. Furthermore, the blend of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (...
Price: $43.14 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Getting Started with OpenShift
by Steve Pousty, Katie Miller
Intrigued by the possibilities of developing web applications in the cloud? With this concise book, you get a quick hands-on introduction to OpenShift, the open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from Red Hat. You'll learn the steps necessary to build, deploy, and host a complete real-world application on OpenShift, without having to read long, detailed explanations of the technologies involv...
Price: $8.88 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Lucas Carlson
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is gaining serious traction among web and mobile developers, but as new PaaS providers emerge and existing vendors upgrade their features, it's hard to keep track of what PaaS has to offer. This thorough introduction takes you through the PaaS model from a developer's point of view, and breaks down the types of services that Google App Engine, Windows Azure, Heroku, Cl...
Price: $21.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Navin Sabharwal, Prashant Wali
Cloud Capacity Management helps readers in understanding what the cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS are, how they relate to capacity planning and management and which stakeholders are involved in delivering value in the cloud value chain. It explains the role of capacity management for a creator, aggregator, and consumer of cloud services and how to provision for it in a 'pay as you use model'.This involve...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013