September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
391 pages
12h 39m
English
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Notes
1. Hunter Muller, conversation with the author, January 23, 2012.
2. Ravi Rajagopal, conversation with the author, December 20, 2011.
3. Dan Farber, “Oracle’s Ellison nails cloud computing,” CNET News, September 26, 2008. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10052188-80.html.
4. “Billionaires Gallery 2011,” Forbes. www.forbes.com/wealth/billionaires.
5. Gartner, “Gartner’s 2011 Hype Cycle Special Report Evaluates the Maturity of 1,900 Technologies,” August 10, 2011, www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1763814.
6. Nicholas Carr, “IT Doesn’t Matter,” Harvard Business Review (May 2003), (81)5, pp. 41–49, Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google (Norton, 2008).
7. Francis Pereira, conversation with the author, January 28, 2012.
8. Ibid.
11. Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (Hyperion, 2006).
12. John Dillon, conversation with the author, January 29, 2012.
13. John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion (Basic Books, 2010).
14. George Gilder, “The Information Factories,” Wired (October 2006). www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware.html.
15. Jason Dean, “The Forbidden City of Terry Gou,” Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2007. online.wsj.com/article/SB118677584137994489.html.
16. James Urquhart, “Understanding Cloud and DevOps—Part 2,” CNet News, March 27, 2010. http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10470790-240.html ...
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