Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution: How Cloud Computing Is Transforming Business and Why You Can't Afford to Be Left Behind

Increase efficiency while saving money with “on-demand” computing

The biggest game-changing force in business since the creation of the Internet,cloud computing simplifies and lowers the cost of operations while providing flexibilityand power you never dreamed possible. Make your strategic move now, with ManagementStrategies for the Cloud Revolution!

"Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution is an important work that captures theconcepts and technological advances fueling the rapid adoption of cloud computing today.It illuminates how specific core technologies have led to the emergence of those patterns asthe foundation for the next generation of IT-managed infrastructure."
—Rich Wolski, Chief Technology Officer and cofounder of Eucalyptus Systems, Inc.,and Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara

“Explains in marvelously plain English how clouds will change our world. . . . If the potential ofcloud computing doesn’t excite you now, it will after you read this book. Buy a copy and put iton your CEO’s desk. Babcock explains it all.”
—Paul Gillin, bestselling author of The New Influencers

“A valuable primer and handbook. It will help you master the technology and follow the storyas innovators craft the future of cloud computing.”
—Ted schadler, VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.,and coauthor of Empowered

“This readable, thought-provoking book will be especially useful to business professionals and practitioners.”
Choice magazine

About the Book

Everyday business as we know it is poisedfor a monumental shift, courtesy of cloudcomputing—the biggest game-changer since thecreation of the Internet itself. There’s no doubtabout it: If you want to compete in the future,you must begin educating yourself about cloudcomputing now.

From InformationWeek editor Charles Babcock, aleading authority on the business benefits and pitfallsof cloud computing, Management Strategiesfor the Cloud Revolution provides the tools everymanager needs to create a new business strategythat harnesses all the power cloud computing hasto offer.

Cloud computing is the equivalent of renting timeon a computing infrastructure over the Internet, ratherthan building your own from the ground up. Accessto the cloud is growing quickly, and the benefits areundeniable. Those who begin incorporating cloudcomputing into their business strategy will enjoy:

• Dramatic Cost Savings: The cloud makesavailable innovative technologies that wouldotherwise be too expensive.
• Ubiquitous Access: Employees canaccess the server power they need anytime,anywhere, and send it the program theywant to run.
• Unprecedented Agility: Business processesand business infrastructures can be alteredquicker than ever.
• Steady Traffic Flow: Even during peak loads,systems in the cloud can overcome bottlenecksand expand to meet the user’s needs.

Working on the cloud, your analysts, business intelligenceexperts, and researchers can access large-scale,high-speed, highly reliable systems whilepaying only for short-term use.

You didn’t set up your own electrical grid to poweryour computers. Why pay big money to use themwhen you don’t have to? The cloud is on the horizon,and it’s looming larger by the day. Learn how to takefull advantage of it with Management Strategies forthe Cloud Revolution.

About the Author
Charles Babcock has been reporting on the major trends in computing for the past 20 years. He currently serves as editor-at-large at InformationWeek, covering the business application of Web services, virtualization, cloud computing and other topics of interest as they come up. He writes major features and cover stories for InformationWeek, daily stories for its Web site, www.informationweek.com, and blogs regularly on related topics. He has also been integral in their transtition to the web. He is the former Software Editor and Technical Editor of Computerworld and editor-in-chief of Digital News.

He has been the winner of $400 William Randolph Hearst journalism scholarships for two years in a row in a national competition (third place, investigative reporting; fourth, editorial writing). He was also part of a team of three at InteractiveWeek that won the Jesse Neal award for business writing for an in-depth look at a failed effort to revamp computing systems at McDonalds Corp.

Babcock gives talks at user groups of software companies. He moderates or sits in on panels at shows, such as the Open Source Business Conference. He organizes, hosts and speaks at InformationWeek-organized Webinars on virtualization and cloud computing. Over the course of a year, he speaks to 800-1,200 people in various settings. He also appears in a regular show of video recorded interviews on Silicon Valley topics, called ValleyView, aired on the InformationWeek Web site.