This book examines enterprise architecture (EA) in the context of the surging popularity of Cloud computing. It explains the transformation of EA resulting from the strategically significant convergence that cloud computing can achieve. Chapters cover each of the contributing architectures of EA, illustrating the current and impending implications of the Cloud on each of them. The author ties together these topics with chapters on Cloud integration and composition architecture. He also examines the Enterprise Cloud, federated Clouds, and the vision to establish the InterCloud.

Cloud-Enabled Smart Enterprises! Cloud-Inspired Enterprise Transformations! Cloud-Instigated IT Transformations! Cloud EA: Frameworks and Platforms. Cloud Application Architecture. Cloud Data Architecture. Cloud Technology Architecture. Cloud Integration Architecture. Cloud Management Architecture. Cloud Security Architecture (CSA). Cloud Governance Architecture. Cloud Onboarding Best Practices.

Having obtained the competitive UGC research fellowship, Pethuru Raj, PhD successfully obtained a PhD from Anna University, Chennai, India. He then obtained a CSIR fellowship to work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3 years in two leading Japanese universities. Dr. Raj, worked as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, India, for 1.5 years.

Dr. Raj has more than 12 years of IT industry experience. Primarily, he has contributed as a technical architect for 8 years and as a software product architect for 4 years. Currently, he is working as an enterprise architecture (EA) consultant focusing on EA-inspired business transformation capabilities. His ultimate aim is to provide technology advisory services to worldwide organizations and business enterprises to enable a smooth transition to be smarter in their operations, offerings, and outputs, by articulating and empowering them to adopt, adapt, and apply proven, potential, and promising technologies, architectural styles, and process optimization methods.

Dr. Raj has acquired good knowledge on some emerging technologies such as cloud computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA), event-driven architecture (EDA), and enterprise architecture (EA). Also, he has gleaned reusable knowledge in big data computing and Hadoop, realtime and real-world cloud analytics, machine-to-machine (M2M) integration/cyber physical systems (CPS), high-performance system design, and the development methods of smartphone applications. He has made use of the opportunities that came my way to focus on a few business domains, including telecommunication, retail, government, energy, and health care. Dr. Raj has contributed book chapters for a number of technology books that were edited by internationally acclaimed professors and published by leading publishing houses.