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Enterprise Cloud Computing: A Strategy Guide for Business and Technology Leaders

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This book is exactly what it claims to be, no more no less. Firstly, what this book is not - it is not a technical introduction to Cloud Computing, SOA, BPM or any of the other acronyms being thrown around lately. It is also not one author's viewpoint on these topics.
It is simply a comprehensive, up to the minute compendium of the state of the IT industry with respect to these new concepts and ideas. And in this respect it is brilliant. It provides an incredibly accurate account of the meaning behind the terms Cloud, SOA, BPM, SaaS, Social Networking, tweets and a dozen other buzzwords, painting a picture that is unified, and complete. How it manages to draw upon so many different viewpoints, from so many experts and SMEs and bring all of this information together to form a cohesive whole is impressive. But it does so. And in doing so this book captures how the IT industry is and will evolve around these issues at a strategic level - exactly as it promises on the cover. If you are a business leader wanting to see into the future, then the only thing that would make this book better is if it was spherical and made out of solid crystal.

Good, crisp read. We are seeing the battle for the soul of enterprise computing for the next decade or so depending on whether they virtualize and keep computing in-house or take to the far more efficient public cloud. I enjoyed that discussion in book the most. I also enjoy Peter Fingar's style (from earlier books) - he is about big IT and BPM thoughts and unafraid to use colorful language to make points.

If you are looking for a bunch of techno-speak, look elsewhere. This book is not for programmers or technologists looking for technical guidance or programming recipes. It's about how cloud computing is being forged with new categories of resources and services that give business people control over their business processes to compete for the future. The book makes an interesting point that business units, not IT departments, are often driving the uptake of cloud services to solve business problems...in some cases all it takes is a credit card, not an annual IT budget, to tap needed business resources in the Cloud.

The book explains in lay terms what cloud computing is in order to set the context for what it means for the enterprise.
Then it looks at the newly emerged social networks and how they are changing the ways businesses must operate. The book describes the needed shift from Information Technology (IT) to Business Technology (BT) being driven by the ease of use of Consumer IT, and provides the rationale for a Service-Oriented Enterprise that operates in the Cloud. It explains the how business process management (BPM) can become a 'business operating system' in the Cloud, and sets forth a high-level process for the adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise.

The book provides insights and guidance for people who are in some way responsible for the future of their organizations including CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, CMOs and other C-level executives. It will also be useful to IT staff in order to gain common ground with non-technical people on the 'business issues' related to cloud computing.

The flow of information everywhere has changed everything. "Enterprise Cloud Computing: A Strategy Guide for Business and Technology Leaders" discusses the importance of cloud computing and how it is changing the economic and innovation games across the globe. Understanding it is absolutely vital and industry veterans lend their advice on learning and mastery the process. "Enterprise Cloud Computing" is a choice pick for anyone who wants to learn from the ways of experts.

This book is a must read!
It brings clarity in the on-going discussions on Cloud Computing, demystifying the current hype.
It gives a straight overview on what Cloud Computing is and isn't. And most important: it is about Enterprise Business, about Business Innovation.
I had the opportunity to work with one of the authors: Andy Mulholland, in Cloud Computing Events and discussions with Enterprise Business and IT Seniors.
In these challenging times, books like this are a guides to survive and excel with your Enterprise, creating new profit,

I had high expectations starting this book. I ended up skipping though much of it because this seems to be more of a snapshot of what has been going on over the last 10 years. If your new to cloud technology and know nothing this is a good book to bring you up to scratch. If your looking for insight into the future or you already are competent there's not enough points to make the purchase of this book worth while.