Cloud Computing for Libraries

摘要

Cloud computing was around a long before anyone coined the term. It was thus familiar to us all when the concept grew in significance and was easily absorbed into the practice of information management Breeding does not need to spend long explaining the nature of cloud computing, for as he says it is pervasive in almost all literature about computing so in this book the definitions are provided in a short introductory chapter. What he does in much more detail is consider the applications of this technology in libraries, so the second chapter is about the various options libraries have for implementing its computer environment. Different hosting options discussed are remote website hosting, server collocation, dedicated server hosting, and virtual server hosting.