| Description |
xiii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 10.3.Case Studies on Designing for Reliability -- 10.4.The Concept of Fault Tolerance in Cloud Computing -- 10.5.With the Cloud, Response Time Is More Important than Ever Before -- 10.6.Improving the Availability of Cloud Services -- 10.7.The Premium for Life Cycle Maintainability -- SECTION IV CASE STUDIES ON CLOUD COMPUTING APPLICATIONS -- 11.Open-Source Software and on Demand Services -- 11.1.The Advent of Open-Source Software -- 11.2.An Era of Partnerships in on Demand Software -- 11.3.Frameworks, Platforms, and the New Programming Culture -- 11.4.Finding Better Ways to Build IT Services -- 11.5.The Case of Software Dependability -- 11.6.Auditing the Conversion to Software as a Service -- 11.7.Software Piracy Might Enlarge the Open Source's Footprint -- 12.Leadership in Logistics -- 12.1.Logistics Defined -- 12.2.Customer Relationship Management -- 12.3.Enterprise Resource Planning -- 12.4.Wal-Mart: A Case Study in Supply Chain Management -- |
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Contents note continued: 12.5.Just-in-Time Inventories -- 12.6.Machine-to-Machine and RFID Communications -- 12.7.Challenges Presented by Organization and Commercial Vision -- 13.High Technology for Private Banking and Asset Management -- 13.1.Cloud Software for Private Banking -- 13.2.Leadership Is Based on Fundamentals -- 13.3.Cloud Software for Asset Management -- 13.4.Cloud Technology Can Improve Fund Management -- 13.5.Criteria of Success in Asset Management Technology -- 13.6.Functionality Specifics Prized by the Experts -- 13.7.Institutional Investors, High Net-Worth Individuals, and the Cloud |
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Contents note continued: 3.3.User-Centered Solutions and Cloud Computing -- 3.4.For Cloud Vendors an Inflection Point Is Risk and Opportunity -- 3.5.Cost Is One of the Dragons -- 3.6.The Problems of Opaque Pricing -- 3.7.Salesforce.com: A Case Study on Pricing on Demand Services -- 4.User Organizations of Cloud Computing -- 4.1.Potential Customers of Cloud Technology -- 4.2.The Cloud Interests Small and Medium Enterprises -- 4.3.Virtual Companies and the Cloud -- 4.4.Virtual Networked, Objects -- 4.5.Consumer Technologies and the Cloud -- 4.6.Social Networks and Multimedia Messaging -- SECTION II WHAT USER ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD KNOW -- 5.Threats and Opportunities with Cloud Computing -- 5.1.The Computer Culture as We Know It Today May Disappear -- 5.2.The CIO's Career Is at Stake -- 5.3.Centralization May Be a Foe, Not a Friend -- 5.4.Budgeting for Cloud Computing -- 5.5.Outsourcing, Infrastructural Interdependencies, and the Cloud -- 5.6.Service Level Agreements -- |
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Contents note continued: 5.7.Is Cloud Computing a Lock-In Worse than Mainframes? -- 6.Reengineering the User Organization -- 6.1.Strategic Objectives and Reengineering -- 6.2.Organizational Solutions Are No Sacred Cows -- 6.3.The Number. One Asset Is Human Resources at the CIO Level -- 6.4.Promoting Greater Productivity through Reorganization -- 6.5.The Transition from Legacy to Competitive Systems -- 6.6.Avoiding the Medieval EDP Mentality -- SECTION III ANY-TO-ANY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLOUDS -- 7.Inside the Cloud of the Competitors -- 7.1.The Controllability of Computer Applications -- 7.2.Platforms Rising: Google Tries to Be a Frontrunner -- 7.3.Salesforce.com and Its Force -- 7.4.Microsoft Is Now on the Defensive -- 7.5.Amazon.com Leverages Its Infrastructure -- 7.6.EMC, VMWare, and Virtual Arrays of Inexpensive Disks -- 7.7.Wares of Other Cloud Challengers -- 8.The Saga of an Open Architecture -- 8.1.Searching for an Open Architecture -- 8.2.Challenges Posed by Big Systems -- |
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Contents note continued: 8.3.Infrastructure as a Utility -- 8.4.The Cloud's System Architecture and Its Primitives -- 8.5.The User Organization's Business Architecture -- 8.6.Financial Services Applications Architecture: A Case Study -- 8.7.The Architect's Job: Elegance, Simplicity, and Integration -- 9.Internet Cloud Security -- 9.1.Who Owns Whose Information on the Cloud? -- 9.2.When Responsibility for Security Takes a Leave, Accountability Goes Along -- 9.3.Data Fill the Air and Many Parties Are Listening -- 9.4.Many of the Cloud's Security Problems Date Back to the Internet -- 9.5.Security as a Service by Cloud Providers -- 9.6.Fraud Theory and Intellectual Property -- 9.7.A Brief Review of Security Measures and Their Weaknesses -- 9.8.Security Engineering: Outwitting the Adversary -- 10.Cloud Reliability, Fault Tolerance, and Response Time -- 10.1.Business Continuity Management in the Cloud -- 10.2.System Reliability, Human Factors, and Cloud Computing -- |
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Machine generated contents note: SECTION I CLOUD TECHNOLOGY AND ITS USER COMMUNITY -- 1.The Cloud Computing Market -- 1.1.For and against Cloud Computing -- 1.2.OnDemand vs. OnPremises IT -- 1.3.The Four Pillars of Cloud Computing -- 1.4.A Bird's-Eye View of Cloud Computing Vendors -- 1.5.A New Industry is Being Born -- 1.6.Competition in the Cloud is Asymmetric -- 1.7.The Multi-Billion-Dollar Opportunity: Internet Advertising -- 2.What Cloud Computing Has to Offer -- 2.1.Public Clouds, Private Clouds, and Clients -- 2.2.Cloud Applications and Platforms -- 2.3.Providing the Cloud Infrastructure -- 2.4.Cloud Computing, Spectral Efficiency, Sensors, and Perspiration -- 2.5.The Technology of Enabling Services -- 2.6.At the Core of the Cloud is Virtualization -- 2.7.Strategic Products and Tactical Products -- 3.Strategic Inflection Points -- 3.1.Strategic Inflection Points in Information Technology -- 3.2.Cloud Computing and Its Slogans -- |
| Summary |
This book provides the understanding required to effectively evaluate the technology and determine how it can be best applied to improve business and enhance the overall corporate strategy. Based on extensive research, the book examines the opportunities and challenges that loom in the clouds. It explains exactly what cloud computing is, what it has to offer, and calls attention to the important issues management needs to consider before passing the point of no return regarding financial commitments |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cloud computing.
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Web services.
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| LC no. |
2010018872 |
| ISBN |
1439834539 (hardcover) |
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9781439834534 (hardcover) |
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