Preface
The idea that computing may be organized as a public utility, like water and electricity, was formulated in the 1960s by John McCarthy, a visionary computer scientist who championed mathematical logic in artificial intelligence. Four decades later, utility computing was embraced by major IT companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle.
Cloud computing is a movement started sometime during the middle of the first decade of the new millennium. The movement is motivated by the idea that information processing can be done more efficiently on large farms of computing and storage systems accessible via the Internet. In this book we attempt to sift through the large volume of information and dissect the main ideas ...
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