A prehistory of the Cloud /

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We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hu, Tung-Hui, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : MIT Press Ltd, [2015]
Temas:
Computer networks > History > Popular works.
Internet > Social aspects > Popular works.
Réseaux d'ordinateurs > Histoire > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Internet > Aspect social > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy.
COMPUTERS > Computer Science.
COMPUTERS > Data Processing.
COMPUTERS > Hardware > General.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
COMPUTERS > Machine Theory.
COMPUTERS > Reference.
Computer networks
Internet > Social aspects
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
History
Popular works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The shape of the network
  • Time-sharing and virtualization
  • Interlude: learning from Santa Clara
  • Data centers and data bunkers
  • Seeing the Cloud of data

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