Getting Started in Cloud Computing

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“In 2009, worldwide cloud-services revenue is expected to cross USD56.3 billion, a 21.3% increase from 2008 … likely to reach USD150.1 billion in 2013 … Business processes delivered as cloud services are the largest segment of the overall cloud-services market, accounting for 83% of the overall market in 2008” (Khan, 2009).

If you are still trying to find out what cloud computing is about or how it works, the best way is to try it out yourself …

Get yourself started here http://www.google.com/apps/

For businesses, you can try out the Standard or Premier Edition here http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

For techies or programmers:

Run your web apps on Google's infrastructure
http://code.google.com/appengine/

Connecting Apple's iPhone to Google's cloud computing offerings
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-aj-iphone/

References:

Google and the Wisdom of Clouds
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_52/b4064048925836.htm

Google's Cloud Looms Large
http://www.technologyreview.com/biztech/19785/

Google Groups: Cloud Computing
http://groups.google.com/group/cloud-computing

How the Google-Apple Cloud Computer Will Work
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-apple-cloud-computer.htm

Khan, Imrana. (2009). “Cloud Computing set to go Mainstream.” Outsourcing, Issue #13: July – August, pp. 30-31