From Meghan-Kiffer Press | Jul 13, 2009
A technology storm is brewing, and it's no less than a perfect storm, as it's coming
at us in the midst of the current dire economic climate. It's called "the Cloud," a
21st century business platform built on cloud computing technologies.
Just as it was with a fresh new Internet of only a decade ago, "the Cloud" and the
technologies of cloud computing suffer from confusion and hype. Nevertheless, these are
game-changing phenomena, so business leaders -- and the rest of us -- must gain an
understanding of what these terms really mean and how they will affect us, just as much
as the Internet has affected us all.
In "Dot.Cloud:
The 21st Century Business Platform Built on Cloud Computing," business
strategy expert and former CIO Peter Fingar explains the main ideas of cloud computing
in lay terms. The books is about what "the Cloud" portends for business -- about
transformation in the ways companies are managed -- and about business models for
the 21st century. It's about how companies carry out their work in "the Cloud" instead
of office buildings and skyscrapers, and how they deliver their "services" in "the
Cloud." It's also about human interactions in "the Cloud," and about the end of
management and the rise of self-organizing, self-managed "Bioteams."
This excerpt comes from the book's second chapter entitled "The Gathering Storm: Get
Your Head into the Clouds." It also includes the preface, forward and table of contents
for the book.
The attached Zip file includes:
- Intro Page.doc
- Cover Sheet and Terms.pdf
- Dot Cloud - The 21st Century Business Platform Built on Cloud Computing
Excerpt.pdf
