Seize the Cloud by Erik van Ommeren, Martin van den Berg -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Colophon Contents Acclaim for Seize the Cloud Foreword by IBM Foreword by Sogeti 1 The New Business Reality Case Shell International Case Hyatt Hotels 2 A Dozen Bold Statements on Cloud Computing

2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Economy Created the Cloud 2.3 Cloud Represents All That is Good in IT 2.4 Everybody is Pushing You to the Cloud 2.5 Cloud is for the People 2.6 Of All Those Affected, the CIO Feels It Most 2.7 “Short-Term Cloud Thinking” Will Cost You More Than It Returns 2.8 There Is One Internet, But There Are Many Clouds 2.9 First Stop: Hybrid Cloud 2.10 Sorry, You Don’t Have a Private Cloud Just Yet 2.11 Alas, the Cloud May Not Be So Green After All 2.12 Your Clients, Employees and Competitors Are Ahead of You Already! 2.13 We Have More Technology Than We Can Muster Today 2.14 Conclusion

Case Bambuser 3 Business Innovation Through Cloud Computing

3.1 Introduction 3.2 From Information Technology to Business Technology 3.3 Are You Already a Business Technology Company? 3.4 How Business Technology and Cloud Computing Are a Perfect Match 3.5 Conclusion

Case Lighthouse Capital 4 Cloud Economics

4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Overall Impact of Cloud Computing 4.3 The Impact of Cloud on the Flow of Goods and Money 4.4 The Impact of Cloud on Different Types of Providers and Consumers 4.5 Conclusion

Case ICTU Case Peracton 5 The New IT Constitution

5.1 Introduction 5.2 Drivers for the New IT Constitution 5.3 New IT Capabilities for the Cloud Era 5.4 Mapping the New IT Capabilities for the Cloud 5.5 The Cloud and Service Management—ITIL and the Cloud 5.6 Conclusion

Case Windesheim 6 Enterprise Architecture for Cloud's Sake

6.1 Introduction 6.2 Cloud Computing Requires Coherence and Integration 6.3 Dynamic Enterprise Architecture 6.4 People Make the Practice 6.5 Principles First 6.6 Reference Models Provide a Map for Cloud Adoption 6.7 Focus on Function Instead of Construction 6.8 Conclusion

Case ING 7 Overcoming the Barriers

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Weighing the Issues 7.3 Cloud Can Never Be Secure 7.4 Our Regulations Prohibit the Cloud 7.5 Cloud Is Too Expensive 7.6 Cloud Has No Business Value 7.7 It’s Easy to Get in, Impossible to Get out 7.8 Integration Is Impossible 7.9 Migration to the Cloud Is Too Hard 7.10 Too Difficult to Keep Control 7.11 Performance and Stability are Insufficient 7.12 The Reputation Risk Is Too Large 7.13 The Cloud Providers Are Not Guaranteed Future-Proof 7.14 Lack of Internal Cloud Expertise 7.15 The Systemic Risks Are Too Large for Society 7.16 Culture or Overall Reluctance to Change 7.17 Conclusion

Case Logistics Company Case Trading Firm 8 Data: The New Frontier

8.1 Introduction 8.2 Consumer Data in the Cloud 8.3 Change in Mindset 8.4 Data Evolution 8.5 Dumb versus Smart Data 8.6 Data in the Cloud 8.7 Tapping into the Data Potential for Organizations 8.8 Challenges 8.9 Conclusion

Case Reinier de Graaf Groep 9 Creating Your Roadmap

9.1 Introduction 9.2 Business Changes Toward Cloud Computing 9.3 Addressing the Business-IT Interaction 9.4 Getting IT Ready for Cloud 9.5 Inside-Out or Outside-In? 9.6 Learning More About Cloud & Understanding the Full Impact 9.7 Cloud in Your Organization 9.8 Living in the Cloud

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