•About the Author: Igor FaynbergBell Labs Fellow, CTO of Stargazers Consulting, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at StevensHui-Lan LuBell Labs Fellow at Alcatel-LucentDor SkulerSerial entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics, formerly SVP Alcatel-Lucent, Founder and General Manager of CloudBand Business Unit •376 Pages •Computers + Internet, Cloud Computing <p/> </br><p> From the Back Cover </p></br></br><i>Cloud Computing: Business Trends and Technologies</i> provides a broad introduction to Cloud computing technologies and their applications to IT and telecommunications businesses (i.e., the network function virtualization, NFV). To this end, the book is expected to serve as a textbook in a graduate course on Cloud computing.The book examines the business cases and then concentrates on the technologies necessary for supporting them. In the process, the book addresses the principles of - as well as the known problems with - the underlying technologies, such as virtualization, data communications, network and operations management, security and identity management. It introduces, through open-source case studies (based on OpenStack), an extensive illustration of lifecycle management.The book also looks at the existing and emerging standards, demonstrating their respective relation to each topic.Overall, this is an authoritative textbook on this emerging and still-developing discipline, which-Guides the reader through basic concepts, t