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For senior business and IT management in small, medium, and large
enterprises or government agencies who have or are contemplating
using the Cloud's services to deliver application, platform, and
infrastructure solutions. "Shapes In The Cloud" is a
straightforward business-driven perspective on Cloud Computing
challenges and opportunities for the curious and innovative among
us. When you have completed reading "Shapes In The Cloud," you
should be conversant with business and IT audiences on Cloud
Computing service requirements, evaluations, selection,
development, implementation, and ongoing support. What is Cloud
Computing? What business drivers have led us to this new paradigm?
There has to be reason in there somewhere. What are the benefits
from Cloud Computing? What are the limiting or inhibiting factors?
What are its moving parts? How do they fit together? What is all of
this granularity-in-metrics and subscription pricing about? What
descriptive methods or prescriptive solutions are key components to
moving toward a broad basis of Cloud Computing adoption? What are
the use cases and patterns for providers and consumers to evaluate
on the type of Cloud service, or the Cloud deployment model? What
if you are moving from an on-premise owned-everything situation to
an on-demand pay-as-you-use-it situation? How should one evaluate
all of this? "Shapes In The Cloud" covers Cloud service providers
and consumers, and several aspects of Cloud-related topics:
virtualization, multi-tenancy, infrastructure, IaaS, platforms,
PaaS, applications, SaaS, Cloud security, Cloud management, ITIL,
ITSM, BSM, integrated Cloud lifecycle management, use of metrics,
item granularity, Cloud pricing, usage patterns, use case scenarios
for service consumer and provider, and the comparison of Waterfall
development and agile Scrum development models.
"Life at the End of a Dirt Road" is a sometimes funny, sometimes
poignant but always interesting view of life on a working cattle
ranch. With wry humor and insight, the author recounts a vanishing
way of life played out on a 1,700-acre ranch in Northern California
during the mid 20th century. Mostly written from the author's
perspective as an impressionable ranch kid, the book vividly
describes how he learned to gig frogs, craft slingshots, milk cows
and execute chickens. The reader will peer over his shoulder as he
faces hair-raising perils, both real and imaginary, whether it's
fetching a jar of jam from the creepy, spider-filled cellar;
fending off werewolves with a shovel while irrigating after dark;
or negotiating the bewildering customs of a box social at school.
The reader also will meet unforgettable characters, both critters
and humans, from Shep, the mighty ranch dog and his obsessive,
doomed pursuit of porcupines, to Mrs. Salvadori, the wife of the
previous owner, who reportedly motivated her husband to build her a
new house by burning down the old one. The result is a humorous,
illuminating and richly illustrated account of life at the end of a
dirt road.
"Life at the End of a Dirt Road" is a sometimes funny, sometimes
poignant but always interesting view of life on a working cattle
ranch. With wry humor and insight, the author recounts a vanishing
way of life played out on a 1,700-acre ranch in Northern California
during the mid 20th century. Mostly written from the author's
perspective as an impressionable ranch kid, the book vividly
describes how he learned to gig frogs, craft slingshots, milk cows
and execute chickens. The reader will peer over his shoulder as he
faces hair-raising perils, both real and imaginary, whether it's
fetching a jar of jam from the creepy, spider-filled cellar;
fending off werewolves with a shovel while irrigating after dark;
or negotiating the bewildering customs of a box social at school.
The reader also will meet unforgettable characters, both critters
and humans, from Shep, the mighty ranch dog and his obsessive,
doomed pursuit of porcupines, to Mrs. Salvadori, the wife of the
previous owner, who reportedly motivated her husband to build her a
new house by burning down the old one. The result is a humorous,
illuminating and richly illustrated account of life at the end of a
dirt road.
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