Overview
- Provides a thorough understanding of how businesses can benefit from grid computing
- Focusses on a business perspective with technical detail only where it is needed
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Grid and Cloud Basics – Definition, Classification, Business Models
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Grid Business Experiments
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Practical Guidelines
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About this book
In today’s dynamic business environment, IT departments are under permanent pressure to meet two divergent requirements: to reduce costs and to support business agility with higher flexibility and responsiveness of the IT infrastructure. Grid and Cloud Computing enable a new approach towards IT. They enable increased scalability and more efficient use of IT based on virtualization of heterogeneous and distributed IT resources. This book provides a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of Grids and Clouds and of how companies can benefit from them. A wide array of topics is covered, e.g. business models and legal aspects. The applicability of Grids and Clouds in companies is illustrated with four cases of real business experiments. The experiments illustrate the technical solutions and the organizational and IT governance challenges that arise with the introduction of Grids and Clouds. Practical guidelines on how to successfully introduce Grids and Clouds in companies are provided.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Grid and Cloud Computing
Book Subtitle: A Business Perspective on Technology and Applications
Editors: Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Thomas Wozniak, Santi Ristol
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05193-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05192-0Published: 19 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42525-7Published: 31 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-05193-7Published: 04 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 274
Topics: IT in Business, Innovation/Technology Management, Information Storage and Retrieval, Management of Computing and Information Systems