Inventing the Cloud Century [electronic resource] : How Cloudiness Keeps Changing Our Life, Economy and Technology /
Oppitz, Marcus.author.
Tomsu, Peter.author.
This book combines the three dimensions of technology, society and economy to explore the advent of today's cloud ecosystems as successors to older service ecosystems based on networks. Further, it describes the shifting of services to the cloud as a long-term trend that is still progressing rapidly. The book adopts a comprehensive perspective on the key success factors for the technology - compelling business models and ecosystems including private, public and national organizations. The authors explore the evolution of service ecosystems, describe the similarities and differences, and analyze the way they have created and changed industries. Lastly, based on the current status of cloud computing and related technologies like virtualization, the internet of things, fog computing, big data and analytics, cognitive computing and blockchain, the authors provide a revealing outlook on the possibilities of future technologies, the future of the internet, and the potential impacts on business and society.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Introduction -- A Short History of Service Ecosystems -- Early Information Network Services -- Making of Digital Computers -- Networks for Sharing and Connecting -- Managing Virtual Storage -- From Physical to Virtual Services -- Software Defined Virtual Networks -- Building the Internet -- World Wide Web -- Cloud Computing -- Building Cloud Business and Ecosystems -- Creating Innovation -- Security and Privacy Challenges -- Changes in Society and Politics -- Internet of Things -- Fog Computing -- Big Data Analytics -- Future Technologies of the Cloud Century -- New Paradigms and Big Disruptive Things -- Summary.
This book combines the three dimensions of technology, society and economy to explore the advent of today's cloud ecosystems as successors to older service ecosystems based on networks. Further, it describes the shifting of services to the cloud as a long-term trend that is still progressing rapidly. The book adopts a comprehensive perspective on the key success factors for the technology - compelling business models and ecosystems including private, public and national organizations. The authors explore the evolution of service ecosystems, describe the similarities and differences, and analyze the way they have created and changed industries. Lastly, based on the current status of cloud computing and related technologies like virtualization, the internet of things, fog computing, big data and analytics, cognitive computing and blockchain, the authors provide a revealing outlook on the possibilities of future technologies, the future of the internet, and the potential impacts on business and society.
Management information systems.
Computer organization.
Big data.
Computer science.
E-business.
Electronic commerce.
E-commerce.
Computers and civilization.
Business IT Infrastructure.
Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.
Big Data/Analytics.
Management of Computing and Information Systems.
e-Business/e-Commerce.
Computers and Society.