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In previous chapters we looked at cloud computing from the outside; here, we will do so from the inside, within the data center. We focus on some well-known cloud components in enough detail to appreciate the basic ideas, why they work (and when they might not work), and we will speculate a bit about how they might be generalized for use in other settings.
Clouds
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
from up and down and still somehow
it’s clouds illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all.—Joni Mitchell
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Birman, K.P. (2012). The Structure of Cloud Data Centers. In: Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2416-0_5
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