Published: Wiley, 2012
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xxiv, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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“…Utilization Improvements -- Summary -- Notes -- Million-Dollar Microsecond -- On Time -- Speed on the Web and at Work -- Built for Speed -- Summary -- Notes -- Parallel Universe -- Limits to Speedup -- Amdahl versus Google -- Free Time -- Summary -- Notes -- Shortcuts to Success -- Rapid Transit -- Sending Letters -- Empirical Results -- Summary -- Notes -- Location, Location, Location -- Latency and Distance -- Circle Covering and Circle Packing -- Inverse Square Law -- Spherical Caps and the Tammes Problem -- Summary -- Notes -- Dispersion Dilemma -- Strategies for Response Time Reduction -- Consolidation versus Dispersion -- Tradeoffs Between Consolidation and Dispersion -- The Benefits of Consolidation -- The Benefits of Dispersion -- The Network Is the Computer -- Summary -- Notes -- Platform and Software Services -- Infrastructure as a Service Benefits -- Paying on Actuals versus Forecasts -- Installation -- Investment -- Updates --
Service Level Agreements -- Continuously Earned Trust -- Visibility and Transparency -- Big Data and Computing Power -- Ubiquitous Access -- Response Time and Availability -- Multi-Tenancy, Shared Data -- Cloud-Centric Applications -- Scalability -- Communities and Markets.…”
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