INVENTING THE CLOUD CENTURY : how cloudiness keeps changing our life, economy and technology

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi Introducing Cloudiness (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 1-19 A Short History of Service Ecosystems (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 21-44 Early Information Network Services (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 45-73 Making of Digital Computers (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 75-95 Networks for Sharing and Connecting (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 97-129 Managing Virtual Storage (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 131-138 From Physical to Virtual Servers (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 139-148 Software Defined Virtual Networks (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 149-200 Building the Internet (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 201-227 World Wide Web (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 229-266 Cloud Computing (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 267-318 Building Cloud Businesses and Ecosystems (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 319-348 Creating Innovation (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 349-375 Security and Privacy Challenges (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 377-410 Changes in Society and Politics (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 411-433 Internet of Things (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 435-469 Fog Computing (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 471-486 Big Data Analytics (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 487-510 Future Technologies of the Cloud Century (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 511-545 New Paradigms and Big Disruptive Things (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 547-596 Arrival in the Cloud Century (Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu)....Pages 597-601 Back Matter ....Pages 603-609