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A Complete Guide to Cloud Computing
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Table of Contents 1 Introduction ......................................................................................... 6
1.1 What is Cloud Computing? .................................................................. 6
1.2 The Idea Behind Cloud Computing ...................................................... 7
1.3 Key Characteristics of Cloud Computing .............................................. 9
1.4 What Cloud Computing Really Is ....................................................... 12
1.5 Major Goals of Cloud Computing ...................................................... 14
1.6 Brief History of Cloud Computing ...................................................... 17
2 Common Terminology ........................................................................ 22
3 Companies involved in Cloud Computing ........................................... 30
3.1 Insightful Solutions ............................................................................ 31
3.2 Salesforce.com ................................................................................... 34
3.3 Facebook ........................................................................................... 36
3.4 Joyent ................................................................................................ 37
3.5 Mosso ................................................................................................ 37
3.6 Amazon .............................................................................................. 38
3.7 IBM .................................................................................................... 39
3.8 Microsoft ........................................................................................... 41
3.9 Yahoo ................................................................................................. 43
3.10 Google ........................................................................................... 44
3.11 Oracle............................................................................................ 46
3.12 EMC ............................................................................................... 47
3.13 Sun Microsystems ......................................................................... 48
4 Why Cloud Computing? ...................................................................... 50

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5 Benefits of Cloud Computing .............................................................. 54
6 Cloud Computing Drawbacks .............................................................. 58
6.1 Dependability .................................................................................... 58
6.2 Security .............................................................................................. 59
6.3 Little or no Reference ......................................................................... 60
7 Cloud Computing Technologies .......................................................... 62
8 Architecture Requirements ................................................................ 64
9 Major Components to Cloud Computing ............................................ 66
9.1 Application ......................................................................................... 66
9.2 Client .................................................................................................. 66
9.3 Infrastructure ..................................................................................... 67
9.4 Platform ............................................................................................. 68
9.5 Service ............................................................................................... 69
9.6 Storage .............................................................................................. 70
9.7 Processing Power ............................................................................... 71
10 Migration from Standard Environment to Cloud Computing .............. 73
10.1 Migration Guide ............................................................................ 77
10.2 Top Tech Trends to do with Cloud Computing .............................. 83
10.3 Top Tech Trends against Cloud Computing ................................ 101
11 Cloud Computing Issues ................................................................... 113
11.1 Support Issues ............................................................................. 113
11.2 Capacity Issues ............................................................................ 116
11.3 Considerations of Security .......................................................... 120
12 Contracts and Agreements ............................................................... 129
12.1 Outages....................................................................................... 129

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12.2 Server failures ............................................................................. 130
12.3 Elastic IP Address ........................................................................ 131
12.4 Amazon Machine Images (AMI) ................................................. 132
12.5 Peer-to-Peer ................................................................................ 133
13 Cloud Computing Hype or the Next Big Thing ................................ 137
13.1 Hype ............................................................................................ 137
13.2 Technology Media ...................................................................... 138
13.3 Cloud Computing and Maturity .................................................. 139
14 Financial Benefits and Pitfalls Around Cloud Computing .................. 141
14.1 Benefits ....................................................................................... 141
14.2 Enterprise Resource Planning ..................................................... 142
14.3 Open Standards .......................................................................... 143
14.4 Terms and Conditions ................................................................. 145
15 Cloud Computing for SMEs ............................................................... 149
15.1 Case Study ................................................................................... 150
16 Legal Implications ............................................................................. 155
16.1 The Legal Implications of Google on the Cloud .........

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