Part 1 Reference Text
      • Thomas Erl, Zaigham Mahmood, and Ricardo 
       Puttini, Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & 
       Architecture, Prentice Hall, May 20, 2013, ISBN: 
       978-0133387520
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      Outline
      1. A brief history
      2. Definition
      3. Motivation, Benefit, Risk
      4. Concepts
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      Outline
      1. A brief history
      2. Definition
      3. Motivation, Benefit, Risk
      4. Concepts
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       Brief History
       • Computer scientist John McCarthy publicly 
         proposed in 1961
            If computers of the kind I have advocated become the 
             computers of the future, then computing may someday 
             be organized as a public utility just as the telephone 
             system is a public utility. … The computer utility could 
             become the basis of a new and important industry
       • Leonard Kleinrock, a chief scientist of the ARPANET 
         project, in 1969
            As of now, computer networks are still in their infancy, 
             but as they grow up and become sophisticated, we will 
             probably see the spread of ‘computer utilities’ …
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       Brief History
       • Internet-based computer utilities since the mid-1990s
           Search engines
           Email services
           Open publishing platforms: MySpace, YouTube
           Social media: Facebook, Twitter
       • In the late 1990s, Salesforce.com pioneered the notion 
         of bringing remotely provisioned services into the 
         enterprise
       • In 2002, Amazon.com launched the Amazon Web 
         Services (AWS) platform
           Remotely provisioned storage, computing resources, and 
            business functionality
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