Preface
Like you, we live and work in the world of computing and computers, and we track trends and transformations as they occur. We’re old enough to have witnessed mainframes and their “virtualization of time” model. We lived through the transition from minicomputers to the radical new model of client-server computing. With the same awe you had of connecting to the entire world, we witnessed the amazing change brought on by the Web.
We bring that perspective to the current transformation called cloud computing. We’ve seen this movie before and know the danger of over-hyping something to death. (Literally to death—the term artificial intelligence had to be permanently put to rest after it made the cover of Time magazine.) We don’t think this ...
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