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Building Return on Investment from Cloud Computing – References

 

[1]	The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing; refer to http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/.
[2]	Charles H. Fine: Clock Speed – Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage, Basic Books New Edition, 1999, ISBN: 978-0738201535.
[3]	Clayton M. Christensen: The Innovator’s Dilemma, Harper, 1997, ISBN: 0875845851.
[4]	White Paper: Above the Clouds, RAD Lab., University of California, Berkeley, February 2009; refer to http://berkeleyClouds.blogspot.com/.
[5]	Ivar Subrah: Why Buy the Cow, WebEx Communications, 2007, ISBN: 978-0615163130.
[6]	Nicolas Carr: The Big Switch, Norton & Co., 2009, ISBN: 978-0393333947.
[7]	Chris Anderson: Long Tail Future Business Selling, Hyperion, 2006, ISBN: 978-1401302375.
[8]	Clones your Phone in the Cloud: The Parallelization of Tasks, The Register, June 2009; refer to www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/19/clone_cloud/ITEL.