Cloudonomics the business value of cloud computing
"The ultimate guide to assessing and exploiting the customer value and revenue potential of the CloudA new business model is sweeping the world--the Cloud. And, as with any new technology, there is a great deal of fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding cloud computing. Cloudonomics radically...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628529106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: A Cloudy Forecast; Clouds Everywhere; Cashing In on the Cloud; Beyond Business; Clarifying the Cloud; Farther On; Summary; Notes; Chapter 2: Does the Cloud Matter?; Productivity Paradox; Competitiveness Confrontation; Summary; Notes; Chapter 3: Cloud Strategy; Insanity or Inevitability?; Democratization of IT; Industrialization of IT; Strategy; The Cloud: More than IT; The Networked Organization; Form Follows Function, IT Follows Form; Aligning Cloud with Strategy; Everyware, Anywhere; Summary
- NotesChapter 4: Challenging Convention; What Is the Cloud?; Economies of Scale; Competitive Advantage and Customer Value; Cloud Ecosystem Dynamics; IT Spend; Issues with the Cloud; Summary; Notes; Chapter 5: What Is a Cloud?; Defining the Cloud; On-Demand Resources; Utility Pricing; Common Infrastructure; Location Independence; Online Accessibility; Difference from Traditional Purchase and Ownership; Cloud Criteria and Implications; Is the Cloud New or a New Buzzword?; Summary; Notes; Chapter 6: Strategy and Value; Access to Competencies; Availability; Capacity
- Comparative Advantage and Core versus ContextUnit Cost; Delivered Cost; Total Solution Cost; Opportunity Cost and Cost Avoidance; Agility; Time Compression; Margin Expansion; Customer and User Experience and Loyalty; Employee Satisfaction; Revenue Growth; Community and Sustainability; Risk Reduction; Competitive Vitality and Survival; Summary; Notes; Chapter 7: When-and When Not-to Use the Cloud; Use Cases for the Cloud; Complementary Capabilities and Competencies; Communications; Conversations, Connections, and Communities; Congregations, Commons, and Collections; Consolidation
- Collaboration, Competition, and CrowdsourcingCommerce and Clearing; Collaborative Consumption; Coordination, Currency, Consistency, and Control; Cross-Device Access and Synchronization; Cash Flow; Capacity; Continuity; Checkpoints; Chokepoints; Context; Celerity; Customer Experience; Combinations of the Above; Inappropriate Cloud Use Cases; Constant; Custom; Classic; Close Coupling; Content Capture, Creation, and Consumption; Cryptography; Compression; Caching; Covert; Continuity; Summary; Notes; Chapter 8: Demand Dilemma; A Diversity of Demands; Examples of Variability
- Chase Demand or Shape It?Summary; Notes; Chapter 9: Capacity Conundrum; Service Quality Impacts; Fixed Capacity versus Variable Demand; Splitting the Difference; Better Safe than Sorry; Capacity Inertia; Summary; Notes; Chapter 10: Significance of Scale; Is the Cloud Like Electricity?; Distributed Power Generation; Is the Cloud Like Rental Cars?; Capital Expenditures versus Operating Expenses; Benchmark Data; Cost Factors; Benchmarking the Leaders; Size Matters; Summary; Notes; Chapter 11: More Is Less; Is the Cloud Less Expensive?; Characterizing Relative Costs and Workload Variability
- When Clouds Cost Less or the Same
