Название: The Evolution of Cloud Computing: How to plan for change
Автор: Clive Longbottom
Издательство: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
ISBN: 178017358X
Год: 2017
Страниц: 207
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.15 MB

Cloud computing has been positioned as today's ideal IT platform. However, this has been said before of other IT architectures. How is cloud different?

This book looks at what cloud promises now, and how cloud is likely to evolve as the future unfolds. Readers will be better able to ensure that decisions made now will hold them in good stead for the future and will gain a better understanding of how cloud can deliver the best outcome for their organisations.

Cloud has quickly become a prevalent and ubiquitous term in both the IT and business sectors, delivering affordable computing power to the masses and disrupting many companies and industry sectors. We are now experiencing velocity and acceleration of technology, with a breadth of it being empowered by cloud under the covers. The internet of things (IoT), mobile apps and Big Data, for example, are inherently cloud driven.

It is becoming increasingly important to understand cloud, not only as a technologist but also as a business analyst and leader, as this empowering technology medium changes our lives both in work and at home.

Cloud has been, and is, changing our consumer lives: who does not know of or use Amazon, Netflix, Ebay, Uber, Airbnb, Shazam, and the plethora of new world options presented to us? Of course, cloud also changes how we operate and engage in business. Vendors are fast migrating their own offerings to be cloud-focused; take Microsoft, Oracle and SAP as prime examples. Not to understand this, why it is happening and where we are going will increasingly reduce your value to any organisation as they look for more cloud-experienced and skilled staff.

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