While various methods continue to get crammed under the umbrella-label "cloud computing", most, if not all, internet users will sooner or later work with at least some of them - and be forced to confront the associated jargon.
As with any avant-garde technology, the evolving jargon of the subject serves multiple roles. Unfortunately for the novice, it often - sometimes unintentionally but sometimes deliberately - works as an obfuscating layer. To cloud understanding, so to speak. This is indeed unfortunate, since understanding the fundamentals can go a long way towards strengthening the promise and warding off the associated dangers.
This book takes a deliberately neutral stance towards the business aspects of cloud computing in its various avatars, focusing instead on discussing and explaining, to the extent possible, the fundamentals of the technology that makes these avatars even plausible in the first place.
As with any avant-garde technology, the evolving jargon of the subject serves multiple roles. Unfortunately for the novice, it often - sometimes unintentionally but sometimes deliberately - works as an obfuscating layer. To cloud understanding, so to speak. This is indeed unfortunate, since understanding the fundamentals can go a long way towards strengthening the promise and warding off the associated dangers.
This book takes a deliberately neutral stance towards the business aspects of cloud computing in its various avatars, focusing instead on discussing and explaining, to the extent possible, the fundamentals of the technology that makes these avatars even plausible in the first place.
