Cloud computing strategies

A guide to managing a cloud project, this book illustrates how to take advantage of cloud computing and align it with business and IT strategies. It assesses cloud computing technologies and demonstrates how to determine requirements and implement cloud to meet the goals and objectives of IT and bus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chorafas, Dimitris N.
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press/An Auerbach Books, c2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The cloud computing market
  • 2. What cloud computing has to offer
  • 3. Strategic inflection points
  • 4. User organizations of cloud computing
  • 5. Threats and opportunities with cloud computing
  • 6. Reengineering the user organization
  • 7. Inside the cloud of the competitors
  • 8. The saga of an open architecture
  • 9. Internet cloud security
  • 10. Cloud reliability, fault tolerance, and response time
  • 11. Open-source software and onDemand services
  • 12. Leadership in logistics
  • 13. High technology for private banking and asset management