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The confluence of technology advancements and business developments in Broadband Internet, Web services, computing systems, and application software over the past decade has created a perfect storm for cloud computing. The “cloud model” of delivering and consuming IT functions as services is poised to fundamentally transform the IT industry and rebalance the inter-relationships among end users, enterprise IT, software companies, and the service providers in the IT ecosystem (Armbrust et al., 2009; Lin, Fu, Zhu, & Dasmalchi, 2009).
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Lin, G., Devine, M. (2010). The Role of Networks in Cloud Computing. In: Furht, B., Escalante, A. (eds) Handbook of Cloud Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6524-0_4
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