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Self-provisioning, 77–78, 80–81, 138– Traditional vs. new data centers, 11–12
140 Travelocity, 6
Sensitive data and compliance, 132 Tromer, Eran, 155–156
Service elasticity (See Elasticity of serv- Trust boundary, 71
ice) Twitter, 27
Service-level agreement (SLA), 133–
134 U
Service models, NIST, 223–224 Ubuntu, 122
Services-oriented architecture, 243 Unisys, 109
Sheth-Voss, Pieter, 20–21 U.S. Defense Advanced Research
Shipley, Greg, 71, 227n Projects Agency (DARPA), 46–47
Silicon Mechanics, 214 U.S. Department of Defense, 46–47
Simple API for Cloud Application U.S. Office of Management and
Services, 97, 123, 125, 242 Budget (OMB), 216
Simple Object Access Protocol University supercomputers, 38
(SOAP), 243 Unix, 65–66, 76
Size of clusters, 41–43 URLs, 209–210
Skytap, 97 Users:
Snooping attack, 155 demand for time, 165–168
Social Media at Work (Jue, Marr and identity of, 107–108
Kassotakis), 173–175 programmatic control, 9, 18–19,
Social networking, 172–178 152, 187, 189, 199, 201–206
Sokolic, Adam, 169–170
Solaris, 52, 61 V
Soltero, Javier, 150 Vendor lock-in, 109–124
Sony Music Entertainment, 26–29 Verari, 214
Spikes, operations management, 37– Verizon Business, 99, 109, 117
38, 89–97, 243 Vertica, 20
Stability of cloud, 131–134, 146–151 Virtual appliances, 63–67, 243
Standards, shared, 124–126 Virtual machines (VM), 56–57, 244
Strategies (See Business culture and Virtualization, 51–67
strategy; specific topics) applications, 58–60, 62–67
Sun Microsystems, 40, 75, 211 described, 52–53
Supercomputers, 38–39 economies of scale, 51–52
Suppliers, cluster computing, 40–50 elasticity of service, 49, 53–54
Suraski, Zeev, 241 hardware, 53–57, 62–63
Surplus capacity, 37 hybrid clouds, 91–92
Symplified, 108 live migration of applications, 58–
Systems management, business reor- 60
ganization, 136–137 mobile workload packages, 60–67
Systems Network Architecture operating system role, 53, 60–66,
(SNA), 82–83 76
private cloud, 79–80, 91–92
T virtual appliances, 63–67
Taylor, Greg, 26–29 VMware:
TCP/IP network, 82–83, 209, 243 cloud monitoring, 136
Tenszar, Bob, 120 failure, 150
Terremark, 36, 99 hybrid cloud, 96, 98–99
Tobolski, Joseph, 120 private cloud, 59, 61, 64, 67, 76, 79

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