Abstract
Our daily life is largely determined by using services and consuming products delivered by companies and organizations far beyond our horizon. The general term used today for these economic and technical structures is “cloud” and the number of these different clouds is constantly growing, which made us choose the title “Inventing the Cloud Century,” to describe this phenomenon on a general basis. Cloudiness is an increasing phenomenon. In this book, we will focus on several fundamental findings and, as an introduction, we highlight these fundamental assumptions as our starting points.
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Oppitz, M., Tomsu, P. (2018). Introducing Cloudiness. In: Inventing the Cloud Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61161-7_1
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