4. Cloud infancy stage E.g. webmails such as Yahoo Mail, Hotmail Cloud maturity stage E.g. Gmail, to Amazon AWS for compute and storage, etc. Cloud prosperity E.g. Apple AppStore and iCloud, VMware, Dropbox, etc. Cloud Evolution
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6. App 1 App 2 App 3 Mainframe Era PC/Client-Server Era Traditional IT Infrastructure... App 2 App 3 App 1 A S PORTAL
7. ...To Cloud Infrastructure Hardware Resource Pool Virtualized Resource Pool Apps / Services Avamar VM OS Avamar VM OS Avamar VM OS Avamar VM OS Avamar VM OS Avamar VM OS Avamar VM OS Avamar VM OS Avamar VM OS Avamar VM OS Avamar VM OS Avamar VM OS
19. The Man Behind... '...The power of a supercomputer... at the price of a book...' Edward Tian former CEO and Founder of China Netcom and AsiaInfo, former Vice Chairman of PCCW - Chairman of China Broadband Capital *MIT Technology Review, Oct 24 2011
20. Together, we write the book on Cloud for China... Charles Mok, Director Cloud Valley Network (HK) Ltd [email_address]