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Köp båda 2 för 683 kr"In his new book, Joe Weinman explores many of the areas being impacted by the cloud computing phenomenon, offering compelling value propositions. He spells out, extremely thoroughly, the business cases and cost justifications that go behind cloud computing efforts. He also provides 28 business areas where cloud does and doesn't make business and financial sense." (Forbes.com, September 2012)
JOE WEINMAN is Senior Vice President, Cloud Services and Strategy, Telx, and a former executive at HP, AT&T, and Bell Labs. He is the founder of Cloudonomics and the Cloudonomics(r) blog. He is a frequent global keynote speaker, a prolific inventor awarded fifteen patents, and a guest contributor syndicated to a variety of print and online publications, such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, CNNMoney, InformationWeek, and GigaOm.com. He has been interviewed frequently in the press and on global broadcast television.
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
CHAPTER 1 A Cloudy Forecast 1
Clouds Everywhere 2
Cashing In on the Cloud 6
Beyond Business 8
Clarifying the Cloud 11
Farther On 12
Summary 13
Notes 13
CHAPTER 2 Does the Cloud Matter? 17
Productivity Paradox 19
Competitiveness Confrontation 21
Summary 26
Notes 26
CHAPTER 3 Cloud Strategy 29
Insanity or Inevitability? 30
Democratization of IT 31
Industrialization of IT 32
Strategy 33
The Cloud: More than IT 35
The Networked Organization 38
Form Follows Function, IT Follows Form 41
Aligning Cloud with Strategy 42
Everyware, Anywhere 42
Summary 44
Notes 44
CHAPTER 4 Challenging Convention 49
What Is the Cloud? 50
Economies of Scale 50
Competitive Advantage and Customer Value 52
Cloud Ecosystem Dynamics 55
IT Spend 58
Issues with the Cloud 59
Summary 61
Notes 61
CHAPTER 5 What Is a Cloud? 63
Defining the Cloud 64
On-Demand Resources 66
Utility Pricing 67
Common Infrastructure 68
Location Independence 69
Online Accessibility 70
Difference from Traditional Purchase and Ownership 70
Cloud Criteria and Implications 72
Is the Cloud New or a New Buzzword? 73
Summary 75
Notes 76
CHAPTER 6 Strategy and Value 77
Access to Competencies 77
Availability 79
Capacity 79
Comparative Advantage and Core versus Context 80
Unit Cost 80
Delivered Cost 80
Total Solution Cost 82
Opportunity Cost and Cost Avoidance 83
Agility 83
Time Compression 84
Margin Expansion 85
Customer and User Experience and Loyalty 86
Employee Satisfaction 87
Revenue Growth 87
Community and Sustainability 87
Risk Reduction 88
Competitive Vitality and Survival 88
Summary 89
Notes 89
CHAPTER 7 When—and When Not—to Use the Cloud 91
Use Cases for the Cloud 91
Inappropriate Cloud Use Cases 101
Summary 104
Notes 104
CHAPTER 8 Demand Dilemma 107
A Diversity of Demands 108
Examples of Variability 109
Chase Demand or Shape It? 120
Summary 121
Notes 122
CHAPTER 9 Capacity Conundrum 125
Service Quality Impacts 126
Fixed Capacity versus Variable Demand 127
Splitting the Difference 129
Better Safe than Sorry 131
Capacity Inertia 134
Summary 135
Notes 135
CHAPTER 10 Significance of Scale 137
Is the Cloud Like Electricity? 139
Distributed Power Generation 140
Is the Cloud Like Rental Cars? 141
Capital Expenditures versus Operating Expenses 143
Benchmark Data 145
Cost Factors 147
Benchmarking the Leaders 150
Size Matters 151
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