Author: Sophie Grant

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Finally, remember the information technology field has always gone through cycles. Movements toward decentralization have always followed mass movements toward centralization. While most business leaders focus on “best common practices”

These three examples highlight some decision factors for using a public, private, or hybrid cloud deployment. Table 17-3 summarizes some of these decision factors. Table 17-3 Public versus Private Cloud

For the second example, consider a manufacturing company deploying quality control sensors along its assembly line. Instead of trying to inspect a completed item—a set of high-end headphones—at the end

With all the cloud options available, network engineers—and business leaders—often have trouble deciding whether to deploy applications in a public or private cloud. There is no single answer to this

Large-scale public cloud services can provide good resilience if application developers take advantage of the service’s resilience features. Most cloud services deploy data centers into cloud regions and split each

Engineers and users typically think of the cloud as renting resources in a large-scale provider’s data center: “cloud is just someone else’s computer.” This view of cloud computing was accurate

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When users think of time, they think about the clock on their host, tablet, phone, or some other mobile device showing the correct time, but there is much more to