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INDEX

Barroso, Luiz, 45, 47–48 C
Battery backup, Google, 44–45 Cache memory, 235
Berners-Lee, Tim, 17 Canonical, 122
Best practices, 124–126 Christensen, Clayton M., 190, 193–
Bezos, Jeff, 176 194, 203
Bitcurrent, 232 Cisco Systems, 74, 214
Blogging, 177–178, 212 Citrix Systems, 64, 76, 79, 112, 114,
Bloomberg, 15 117–118
Bluenog, 137 Cloud app, 235
BMC, 137 (See also Applications)
Brin, Sergey, 176 Cloud architecture (See Flexibility
Broad network access, NIST, 222 and scaling capabilities)
Brown, Chris, 232 Cloud computing:
Business culture and strategy, 163– author’s vision for, xiii–xiv
184 defining, 4–16, 221–225
analytics, 178–179 growth of use, 2–3
business intelligence, 167, 178–179 as name, resistance to, 104–106
cloud pros and cons, xiv–xvi (See also specific topics)
economic issues, 168–171 Cloud Computing Conference &
excess usage, 165–168 Expo (2009), 100
perception of cost, 164–165 Cloud Computing Forum (2009),
scenario to address challenge, 120
179–184 Cloud envy, 235
social networking, 172–178 Cloud lock-in, 109–124, 236
Business future directions, 185–206 Cloud portability, 231–233, 236
addressing the cloud challenge, Cloud provider, 236
198–201 Cloud Revolution, 1–24, 168
disruptive change, 188–194 Cloud Security Alliance, 124–125,
opportunities, 186–188 151, 153, 157, 160–161
phases of Internet computing, Cloud storage, 236
188–190 Cloudburst, 92, 134–136, 236
programmatic control, 199, 201– CloudStatus, 136, 150
206 Cloudwashing, 236
scenario to address challenge, Cluster computing, 38–50
179–184 Cluster networks, 41
threats, 195–198 CNet, 14
Business intelligence, 167, 178–179 Codd, Edgar, 242
Business reorganization, 127–143 Coghead, 232
application administration, 140– Column-oriented database, 236
141 Community cloud, NIST, 225
cloudbursting, 134–136 Complex event processing (CEP),
end-user management, 137–140 178–179, 237
failure/stability, 131–134 Computerworld, 88
in-house vs. cloud, 130–133 Corporate enterprise data centers
interest in cloud, 127–129 (See Private cloud)
IT skills and positioning, 129–130, Cost of service:
133, 141–142 Amazon EC2, 30–31, 34, 36, 113
self-provisioning, 138–140 of building data centers, 35–36
systems management, 136–137 defining the cloud, 8–9, 12

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