The Implications of Cloud Computing for Global Enterprise Management
Nabil Ahmed Sultan · Palgrave Macmillan Books · 2015
The term “cloud” is often described as a metaphor for the Internet (which is commonly illustrated as cloud drawings in many information and technology [ICT] textbooks). Some people, however, ascribe the name to Google’s CEO (Eric Schmidt) who, in a 2006 conference, was said to have called the new emerging ICT service model “cloud computing”