Embracing the Cloud: Six Ways to Look at the Shift to Cloud Computing

Autor/inn/en	Ullman, David F.; Haggerty, Blake
Titel	Embracing the Cloud: Six Ways to Look at the Shift to Cloud Computing
Quelle	In: EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 33 (2010) 2, (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1528-5324
Schlagwörter	Figurative Language; Definitions; Program Implementation; Integrated Learning Systems; Computer Mediated Communication; Computer Software; Vendors; Internet; Information Technology; Technology Planning; Information Storage; Shared Resources and Services; Access to Information; College Administration; Outsourcing; Handheld Devices; New Jersey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Begriffsbestimmung; Computerkonferenz; Vendor; Anbieter; Informationstechnologie; Informationsspeicherung; Gemeinwirtschaft; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung
Abstract	Cloud computing is the latest paradigm shift for the delivery of IT services. Where previous paradigms (centralized, decentralized, distributed) were based on fairly straightforward approaches to technology and its management, cloud computing is radical in comparison. The literature on cloud computing, however, suffers from many divergent definitions and viewpoints. Rather than provide a strict definition for cloud computing, this article starts with a loose cloud metaphor, incorporates a number of related IT concepts, and proposes six new ways to view cloud computing. These viewpoints and the authors' cloud metaphor are helping transform delivery of IT services at New Jersey Institute of Technology, offering a model for how these "views of the cloud" might do the same for other institutions. (Contains 4 figures and 16 endnotes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10