Chapter 11. Reflections on Life in the Cloud

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How to become and expert in the IT business—Geek and Poke

The focus of Part III, “Life in the Cloud—Planning and Managing the Cloud,” was to highlight the different aspects and areas for consideration when planning your cloud strategy. The different aspects highlight that the benefits of cloud services do not come automatically and emphasize that simply deploying a cloud hardware/software product is only half the solution.

The IT industry has a history of persuading enterprises that a pure technological solution is all that you need. More recently, we have seen “service-oriented architecture (SOA) ...

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