C H A P T E R 8
The CloudFundamentals, Strategy, and Economics
This rather short chapter discusses everything that you might need to get started with clouds. It discusses cloud environment fundamentals and cloudonomics—the economics of cloud computing.
Clouds are the “in” thing. They provide IT infrastructure on demand. Pay per use without the complications of investing in hardware and software. They are highly scalable too. Clouds are currently a very hot topic of discussion among CIOs. Many of them are implementing clouds in order to achieve lean IT operations so that the organization can concentrate on its main line of business and not IT. As an IT manager today, you must have a working knowledge of clouds and the associated economics ...
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