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Hybrid Cloud for Architects

By : Alok Shrivastwa
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Hybrid Cloud for Architects

By: Alok Shrivastwa

Overview of this book

Hybrid cloud is currently the buzz word in the cloud world. Organizations are planning to adopt hybrid cloud strategy due to its advantages such as untested workloads, cloud-bursting, cloud service brokering and so on. This book will help you understand the dynamics, design principles, and deployment strategies of a Hybrid Cloud. You will start by understanding the concepts of hybrid cloud and the problems it solves as compared to a stand-alone public and private cloud. You will be delving into the different architecture and design of hybrid cloud. The book will then cover advanced concepts such as building a deployment pipeline, containerization strategy, and data storage mechanism. Next up, you will be able to deploy an external CMP to run a Hybrid cloud and integrate it with your OpenStack and AWS environments. You will also understand the strategy for designing a Hybrid Cloud using containerization and work with pre-built solutions like vCloud Air, VMware for AWS, and Azure Stack. Finally, the book will cover security and monitoring related best practices that will help you secure your cloud infrastructure. By the end of the book, you will be in a position to build a hybrid cloud strategy for your organization.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Software Hardware List
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Compliance standards and controls


Having taken a look at the basic concepts of security, it is now time that we take a look at compliance standards that are used in the industry and how some of the controls are implemented.

The compliance requirements can be for a particular industry, for example HIPAA for Healthcare, PCI for the payment card industry, and so on, or compliance requirements for a region, for example, the European Union has General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 

These standards have several aspects, including IT, process, and even documentation standards.

In the next section, we will take a look at the IT controls that need to be implemented for one of the compliance standards. I think HIPAA will be good as an example, due to its fairly comprehensive coverage and requirements. 

HIPAA compliance standards

HIPAA is a standard for healthcare organizations in the US; however, most other healthcare institutions around the world are also influenced by the standards. While the standards...