A BRIEF GUIDE TO CLOUD COMPUTING

An essential guide to the next computing revolution

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A Brief Guide to Cloud Computing is a non-technical guide to introduce everybody to the Cloud Computing Revolution. Imagine my cloud computing page or cloud computing videos but expanded into an easy-to-read, excellent value paperback!

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Cloud Computing is the next revolution and will have as much impact on your life as the introduction of the PC. Using websites including Facebook, Flickr and Gmail, many people already store some information out in the Internet cloud. However, within a few years most computing applications will be accessed online with the web at the heart of everything we do.

In this valuable guide, expert Christopher Barnatt explains how computing will rapidly become more reliable, less complex, and more environmentally friendly. He explores online software and hardware, and how it will alter our office work and personal lives. Individuals and companies are going to be released from the constraints of desktop computing and expensive corporate data centres. New services like augmented reality will also become available.

Including coverage of Google Docs, Zoho, Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2 and other key developments, this book is your essential guide to the cloud computing revolution.

CONTENTS

Preface

Cloud Computing Basics

1. The Rise of Fluffy Computing (free download)
2. Cloud Computing and Web 2.0
3. Software in the Cloud
4. Hardware in the Cloud (video)

Cloud Computing Implications

5. Security, Privacy and Reliability
6. The Second Digital Revolution
7. The Battle for the Cloud
8. Trouble in the Boardroom
9. The Personal Cloud
10. Cloud Computing in the Future

Cloud Computing Directory
Glossary
Index