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A Brief Guide to Cloud Computing: An essential guide to the next computing revolution.
An accessible and comprehensive guide to the future of computing.
Cloud Computing is the next computing 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.
Cloud Computing is the next computing 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.
- GenresComputersNonfiction
289 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2010
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Christopher Barnatt
21 books21 followersChristopher Barnatt is an author, futurist, and Associate Professor of Computing & Future Studies in Nottingham University Business School. He runs the websites www.explainingthefuture.com and www.explainingcomputers.com, as well as their YouTube channels at www.youtube.com/explainingthefuture and www.youtube.com/explainingcomputers
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August 9, 2018
Great foundation of the concepts of cloud computing. I admit, it's a little outdated now but what can you expect. It's still a good beginners guide.
I confess even today the book introduced me to new cloud concepts that I am now making use of and others that I am now aware of.
I confess even today the book introduced me to new cloud concepts that I am now making use of and others that I am now aware of.
November 7, 2012
Nice guide to cloud computing.
July 24, 2013
An excellent guide to Cloud Computing. Easy to understand for non-technical people.
March 5, 2015
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