Chorafas Cloud Computing Strategies

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4398-5721-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

A guide to managing cloud projects, Cloud Computing Strategies provides the understanding required to evaluate the technology and determine how it can be best applied to improve business and enhance your overall corporate strategy. Based on extensive research, it examines the opportunities and challenges that loom in the cloud. It explains exactly what cloud computing is, what it has to offer, and calls attention to the important issues management needs to consider before passing the point of no return regarding financial commitments.
Illustrated with numerous examples and case studies, the book examines security, privacy, data ownership, and data protection in the cloud. It also:

- Explains how and why your company can benefit from Open Software and onDemand Services

- Identifies various cloud providers, their services, and their content as a basis for evaluating cost effectiveness

- Provides authoritative guidance on how to transition from a legacy system to the cloud

- Includes helpful tips for managing cloud vendor relationships and avoiding vendor lock-in

Whether you’re already in the cloud or just considering it, the text provides the unbiased understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of cloud computing needed to make informed decisions regarding its future in your organization. The book’s strength is that it supplies authoritative insight on everything needed to decide if you should make a transition to the cloud.

Zielgruppe

IT managers, CIOs, data center managers, system architects, system designers, system analysts, programmers, IT Consultants, CEOs, CFOs, and advanced undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chorafas, Dimitris N.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CLOUD TECHNOLOGY AND THE IT USER COMMUNITY
The Cloud Computing Market
For and Against Cloud Computing
OnDemand versus onPremise IT
The Four Pillars of Cloud Computing
A Birdseye View of Cloud Computing Vendors
A New Industry Is Being Born
Competition in the Cloud Is Asymmetric
The Multibillion Opportunity: Income from Advertising
What Cloud Computing Has On Offer
Public Clouds, Private Clouds and Clients
Cloud Applications and Platforms
Providing the Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Computing, Spectral Efficiency, Sensors and Perspiration
The Technology of Enabling Services
At the Core of the Cloud Is Virtualization
Strategic Products and Tactical Products
Strategic Inflection Points
Strategic Inflection Points in Information Technology
Cloud Computing and IT Slogans
User-Centered Solutions and Cloud Computing
For Cloud Vendors, an Inflection Point Is Threat and Opportunity
Cost Is One of the Dragons
The Opaque Problems of Costs and of Pricing
Salesforce.com. A Case Study on Pricing onDemand Services
User Organizations of Cloud Computing
Potential Customers of Cloud Technology
The Cloud Interests Small and Medium Enterprises
Virtual Companies and the Cloud
Using Virtual Networked Objects
Consumer Technologies and the Cloud
Social Networking and Multimedia Messaging
WHAT USER ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD KNOW

Risks and Opportunities with The Cloud
The Computer as We Know It Today May Disappear
The CIO's Career Is at Stake
Centralization May Be a Foe, Not a Friend
Budgeting for Cloud Computing
Outsourcing, Infrastructural Interdependencies and the Cloud
Service Level Agreements
Is Cloud Computing a Lock-In Worst Than Mainframes?
Reengineering the User Organization
Strategic Decisions and Reengineering
Organizational Solutions Are No Sacred Cows
The No. 1 Asset Is Human Resources
Promoting Greater Productivity Through Reorganization
The Transition from Legacy to Competitive Systems
Avoiding the Medieval "EDP" Mentality

ANY-TO-ANY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLOUDS
Inside the Cloud of the Competitors
The Controllability of Computer Applications
Platforms Rising. Google Tries to Be a Frontrunner
Salesforce.com and Its Force
Microsoft is Now on the Defensive
Amazon.com Leverages Its Infrastructure
EMC, VMWare and Virtual Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
Wares of Other Cloud Challengers: A to F
Wares of Other Cloud Challengers: H to R
The Saga of an Open Architecture
Searching for an Open Architecture
Challenges Posed by Big Systems
Infrastructure as a Utility
The Cloud’s System Architecture and Its Primitives
The User Organization’s Business Architecture
Financial Services Application Architecture; a Case Study
The Architect’s Job: Elegance, Simplicity and Integration

Internet and Cloud Security
Who Owns Whose Information in the Cloud?
When Responsibility for Security Takes a Leave, Accountability Goes Along
Data Fills the Air and Many Parties Are Listening
Many of the Cloud’s Security Problems Date Back to the Internet
Security-as-a-Service by Cloud Providers
Fraud Theory and Intellectual Property
A Brief Review of Security Measures and Their Weaknesses
Security Engineering. Outwitting the Adversary
Cloud Reliability, Fault Tolerance and Response Time
Business Continuity Management in the Cloud
System Reliability, Human Factors and Cloud Computing
Case Studies on Designing for Reliability
The Concept of Fault Tolerance in Cloud Computing
With the Cloud, Response Time Is More Important Than Ever Before
Improving the Availability of Cloud Services
The Premium for Lifecycle Maintainability
CASE STUDIES ON CLOUD COMPUTING APPLICATIONS

Open Source Software and On-Demand Services
The Advent of Open Source Software
An Era of Partnerships in onDemand Software
Frameworks, Platforms and the New Programming Culture
Finding Better Ways to Build IT Services
The Case of Software Dependability
Auditing the Conversion to Software as a Service
Software Piracy Might Enlarge the Open Source’s Footprint
Leadership in Logistics
Logistics Defined
Customer Relationship Management
Enterprise Resource Planning
Wal-Mart. A Case Study in Supply Chain Management
Just in Time Inventories
Machine-to-Machine and RFID Communications
Challenges Presented by Organization and Commercial Vision
High Technology for Private Banking and Asset Management
Cloud Software for Private Banking
Leadership Is Based on Fundamentals
Cloud Software For Asset Management
Cloud Technology Can Improve Fund Management
Criteria for Success in Asset Management Technology
Functionality Specifics Prized by the Experts
Institutional Investors, High Net Worth Individuals and the Cloud

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Dimitris N. Chorafas has, since 1961, advised financial institutions and industrial corporations in strategic planning, risk management, computers and communications systems, and internal controls. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Paris, and the Technical University of Athens, Dr. Chorafas has been a Fulbright scholar.
Financial institutions that sought his assistance include the Union Bank of Switzerland, Bank Vontobel, CEDEL, the Bank of Scotland, Credit Agricole, Osterreichische Landerbank (Bank Austria), First Austrian Bank, Kommerzbank, Dresdner Bank, Demir Bank, Mid-Med Bank, Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura, Istituto Bancario Italiano, Credito Commerciale and Banca Provinciale Lombarda.
Dr. Chorafas has worked as a consultant to top management of multinational corporations, including: General Electric-Bull, Univac, Honeywell, Digital Equipment, Olivetti, Nestle, Omega, Italcementi, Italmobiliare, AEG-Telefunken, Olympia, Osram, Antar, Pechiney, the American Management Association, and a host of other client firms in Europe and the United States.
He has served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as a visiting professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Additionally, these educational institutes include the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d’Etudes Industrielles de l’Universite de Geneve, Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
More than 8,000 banking, industrial, and government executives have participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Asia, and Latin America. Dr. Chorafas is the author of 153 books, some of which have been translated into 16 languages.