Cloud computing

One of the most critical ICT decisions facing organisations at the time of writing is how to handle the move to a distributed computing environment which is based on the internet: the Cloud. This chapter aims to give you the information that you need to best formulate your organisation's cloud strategy using open source software:

• What is cloud computing?
• Virtual computing
• Cloud applications and environments

To back this up, there are sections on practical issues that your organisation will face when it begins to operate in a cloud-computing environment:

• Privacy
• Data security
• Backups
• Version management

The situation is changing day-by-day, so you should use this as a starting point in your researches to find the optimal solution for your organisation.