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Lin, Patrick, 120 National Institute of Standards and
LinkedIn, 8, 172 Technology (NIST), 4, 221–225
Linux and Linus servers, 34, 52–53, National Retirement Partners, 141,
61, 65–66, 76, 122, 175, 211 169–171
Live migration, virtualization, 58–60 Navigating the Storm (Shipley), 227n
Load balancing, 37–38 Netware, 52
Lock-in, vendor, 109–124 The New Influencers (Gillin), 177
Loosely coupled systems, 7, 239 Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network,
Lunar Crater Observation and Sens- 97, 123
ing Satellite (LCROSS), 215–216 Nodes, within cluster, 41–42, 45–46
Norrod, Forrest, 74, 128, 143
M
Mainframes, 38–40, 75–76, 239 O
Maintenance, 88–91, 239 Obama, Barack, 208
Management strategies (See Business On-demand self-service, NIST, 222
culture and strategy; specific Open Cloud Standards Incubators, 124
topics) Open source code:
Maritz, Paul, 98 cloud monitoring, 137
Marr, Jackie, 173–175 defined, 240
Marshall, Billy, 66 migration, 59
Master/slave relationship, 17, 240 NASA Nebula, 211–212
Measured service, NIST, 223 as opportunity, 204
MichaelJackson.com, 24–29 as social networking, 174–175
Microsoft: used by suppliers, 125–126
as cloud pioneer, 2–3 vendor lock-in, 110, 118, 121–122
cost of service, 36 (See also Eucalyptus/Eucalyptus
data centers, xi–xii, 8, 10, 35, 42 Project)
private cloud, 76, 79 Open Specification Promise, 118
user identity, 108 Open Virtualization Format (OVF),
vendor lock-in, 111–112, 114–121 111–116, 120–121
virtualization, 64 Operating system role in virtualiza-
Windows servers, 34, 36, 52–53, 61, tion, 53, 60–66, 76
65–66, 76, 83, 120 Operations management, 37–38, 89–
Microsoft Azure, 35, 40, 67, 108 97
Microsoft Bing, 131 Opscode, 232
Microsoft VHD, 117–119 Oracle, 14, 21, 40, 75, 79, 105
Migration, 109–124 O’Reilly OnLamp blog, 156
MIT Technology Review, 154–156 Organizational changes (See Business
Mobile workload packages, virtualiza- reorganization)
tion, 60–67
Monoculture, virtual machine, 156–157 P
Moore’s law, 35, 164 PaaS (platform as a service), 4, 160,
Multitenant, 62–63, 145–146, 240 224, 233, 241
MySpace, 8, 172 Packard, David, 176
Page, Larry, 176
N Palmisano, Sam, 104–105
NASA Nebula Cloud Computing Plat- Paradox of size, peer-to-peer comput-
form, 74, 207–219 ing, 22–23
Nasty code, risk management, 233 Parker, Chad, 31–34

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