Transforming Enterprise Cloud Services (Hardcover)

The broad scope of Cloud Computing is creating a technology business sociolo- cal and economic renaissance. It delivers the promise of making services available quickly with rather little effort. Cloud Computing allows almost anyone anywhere at anytime to interact with these service offerings. Cloud Computing creates a unique opportunity for its users that allows anyone with an idea to have a chance to deliver it to a mass market base. As Cloud Computing continues to evolve and penetrate different industries it is inevitable that the scope and definition of Cloud Computing becomes very subjective based on providers and customers persp- tive of applications. For instance Information Technology (IT) professionals p- ceive a Cloud as an unlimited on-demand flexible computing fabric that is always available to support their needs. Cloud users experience Cloud services as virtual off-premise applications provided by Cloud service providers. To an end user a p- vider offering aset of services or applications in the Cloud can manage these off- ings remotely. Despite these discrepancies there is a general consensus that Cloud Computing includes technology that uses the Internet and collaborated servers to integrate data applications and computing resources. With proper Cloud access such technology allows consumers and businesses to access their personal files on any computer without having to install special tools. Cloud Computing facilitates efficient operations and management of comp- ing technologies by federating storage memory processing and bandwidth.