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CTO Roundtable: Cloud Computing.

The article presents a discussion of topics in computer science related to cloud computing, featuring the opinions of high-ranking technology executives from several major corporations. Participants in the discussion included Werner Vogles, the chief technical officer (CTO) at Amazon.com, Greg Olsen...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 8; pp. 50 - 57
Main Author: CREEGER, MACHE
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2009
Subjects:
Cloud computing
Technological innovations
Web services
Distributed computing
Chief technical officers
Computer science
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article presents a discussion of topics in computer science related to cloud computing, featuring the opinions of high-ranking technology executives from several major corporations. Participants in the discussion included Werner Vogles, the chief technical officer (CTO) at Amazon.com, Greg Olsen, CTO of Coghead, and Lew Tucker, CTO of cloud computing at Sun Microsysterms. Topics addressed included the usefulness of cloud computing for various types of business models in terms of capitalization, cost effectiveness and economic flexibility.