Lean and the Art of Cloud Computing Management

by Gregor Petri

Overview

About a year ago, we published the Cloud Academy primer “Shedding Light on Cloud Computing”. Since then, interest in cloud computing has blossomed and I have had the opportunity to present our Cloud Academy content at cloud computing events around the world. This new book encapsulates the insights and knowledge gathered from the conversations at these events. That includes the dialogue with cloud practitioners, vendors, customers and the considerable number of cloud computing gurus this industry―despite its young age―already seems to have.

In the first part of this book, Cloud Computing―Defined, we include an abbreviated and updated version of the “Shedding Light on Cloud Computing” primer. This provides a quick recap of the various types of cloud computing, the reasons why organisations would want to implement such a strategy, and the risks associated with cloud computing.

In the second part, we discuss a number of more philosophical questions around this phenomena that is reshaping today’s IT: How big is the cloud?; Can cloud computing be assured and secured?; Does it mean the end of the data centre as we know it?

In the third part―The Industrialisation of IT―we spotlight how cloud computing is creating both an opportunity and a necessity for IT management to transform itself from being a guardian of the IT factory to an orchestrator of a supply chain of internal and external services.

Gregor Petri
Advisor cloud computing
The Cloud Academy

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045140126
Publisher:	Gregor Petri
Publication date:	04/22/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	932,711
File size:	437 KB

About the Author

Gregor Petri is a Research VP at Gartner, covering cloud computing, cloud service brokering and communication service provider strategies. Prior to working for Gartner, Gregor was a regular speaker at industry events and wrote the cloud primer “Shedding Light on Cloud Computing” (2009) and many other cloud publications. His "Tune into the Cloud" blog is syndicated across sites worldwide.

Earlier in his career, Gregor worked as a management trainee in the office of the CIO at Akzo, helped roll out Just in Time Manufacturing at Philips and was instrumental in the introduction of several IT innovations, like Object Oriented ERP applications, mobile business applications and XML servers into Europe.

Prior his current position he was Sr. Director product marketing EMEA at CA technologies. Gregor is a former board member of the Dutch Web-Services Association, the XML Users Group Holland and of Geel-Zwart field hockey, where he played until taking up running.

Gregor studied Business Economics and Information Technology in Rotterdam and Tilburg, during this study he wrote and marketed one of the first European shareware applications and was a co-founder of I.N.N.O.V.A.T.I.F., an avant la lettre start-up focused on self-service music entertainment.

Gregor has been recognized as :
- Top 100 Blogger on Cloud Computing (According to Cloud Computing Journal)
- Top 100 Cloud Computing Expert on Twitter (According to the Huffington Post)
- Top Cloud Computing Influencer (According to CloudComputingWire)
- Top 50 Most Influential Blogs and Thinkers in Cloud Computing

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