Inventing the Cloud Century: How Cloudiness Keeps Changing Our Life, Economy and Technology

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introducing Cloudiness
Chapter 2. A Short History of Service Ecosystems
Chapter 3. Early Information Network Services
Chapter 4. Making of Digital Computers
Chapter 5. Networks for Sharing and Connecting
Chapter 6. Managing Virtual Storage
Chapter 7. From Physical to Virtual Servers
Chapter 8. Software Defined Virtual Networks
Chapter 9. Building the Internet
Chapter 10. World Wide Web
Chapter 11. Cloud Computing
Chapter 12. Building Cloud Businesses and Ecosystems
Chapter 13. Creating Innovation
Chapter 14. Security and Privacy Challenges
Chapter 15. Changes in Society and Politics
Chapter 16. Internet of Things
Chapter 17. Fog Computing
Chapter 18. Big Data Analytics
Chapter 19. Future Technologies of the Cloud Century
Chapter 20. New Paradigms and Big Disruptive Things
Chapter 21. Arrival in the Cloud Century