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There are alternative ways a business might adopt cloud computing, and we will be reviewing those approaches in this chapter. As we saw earlier, there are many something-as-a-service options available, and many providers provide all of them, whilst some concentrate on specialist areas like data storage or application platforms.
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Hill, R., Hirsch, L., Lake, P., Moshiri, S. (2013). Business Adoption Models and Legal Aspects of the Cloud. In: Guide to Cloud Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4603-2_2
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