Who Should Read This Book

This book is meant to serve as a primer on the financial and economic impacts of cloud computing. As such, anyone responsible for making decisions regarding IT solutions and platforms can find value here.

Individuals who work in IT procurement, legal, and finance—persons whose roles are already being impacted by the shift to cloud computing—might be interested in understanding more clearly how the technological revolution that is cloud computing fits in a broader social and historical context.

Finally, people who consider themselves well-versed in the nomenclature and business of cloud computing—people who live, eat, sleep, and breathe the cloud—can be challenged to think more deeply about the potential social and global benefits of cheap and ubiquitous computing.