Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture

About Ricardo PuttiniThomas ErlZaigham Mahmood

Thomas Erl is a top-selling IT author founder of Arcitura Education editor of the Service Technology Magazine and series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl. With more than 175000 copies in print world-wide his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major IT organizations such as IBM Microsoft Oracle Intel Accenture IEEE HL7 MITRE SAP CISCO HP and many others. As CEO of Arcitura Education Inc. and in cooperation with CloudSchool.com and SOASchool.com Thomas has led the development of curricula for the internationally recognized Cloud Certified Professional (CCP) and SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) accreditation programs which have established a series of formal vendor-neutral industry certifications obtained by thousands of IT professionals around the world. Thomas has toured over 20 countries as a speaker and instructor and regularly participates in international conferences including Service Technology Symposium and Gartner events. More than 100 articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine. Dr. Zaigham Mahmood is a published author of six books four of which are dedicated to cloud computing. He acts as a technology consultant at Debesis Education UK and a Researcher at the University of Derby UK. He further holds positions as a foreign professor and professor extraordinaire with international educational institutions. Professor Mahmood is a certified cloud trainer and a regular speaker at the International SOA Cloud + Service Technology Symposium and he has published more than 100 articles. His specialized areas of research include distributed computing project management and e-government. Professor Ricardo Puttini has 15 years of field experience as a senior IT consultant at major government organizations in Brazil. He has taught several undergraduate and graduate-level courses in service orientation service-oriented architecture and cloud computing. Ricardo was the general chair of the 4th International SOA Symposium and 3rd International Cloud Symposium that was held in the spring of 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Networks (2004) from the University of Brasilia where he has taught in the Electrical Engineering department since 1998. Ricardo spent 18 months at the LEcole Superieure dElectricite (Supelec) in Rennes France during his Ph.D. where he started researching distributed system architecture and security.