Notes

1. Daniel Sholler and Donna Scott, “Economies of Scale Are the Key to Cloud Computing Benefits,” June 30, 2008, www.gartner.com/id=710610. Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy H. Katz, Andrew Konwinski, Gunho Lee, David A. Patterson, Ariel Rabkin, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, “Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing,” Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2009-28, February 10, 2009, www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-28.html.

2. David A. Vise and Mark Malseed, The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time (Bantam Dell, 2005).

3. www.opencompute.org/.

4. www.openstack.org/.

5. Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google (Norton, 2008).

6. Andrew McAfee, “19th Century Economist Reveals Surefire Investment Strategy!” Andrew McAfee’s Blog, January 19, 2011. http://andrewmcafee.org/2011/01/jevons-computation-efficicency-hardware-investmen/.

7. Joe Weinman, “Cloud Computing Could Boost IT Demand,” InformationWeek, May 6, 2010. www.informationweek.com/blog/outsourcing/229202608.

8. Jonathan Koomey, Growth in Data Center Electricity Use 2005 to 2010 (Analytics Press, 2011). www.analyticspress.com/datacenters.html.

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