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Introduction

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f you aren’t willing to adapt, you’ll die. Evolution isn’t only
for species anymore. It applies to whole industries, companies, departments, and even individual careers. Legacy disaggregated infrastructure is becoming less sustainable, and IT
is under assault from all directions — from the business that
demands more, from providers that are often doing IT better,
and even from within IT itself.
“The cloud” has become one way end‐users are seeking to
empower themselves and unshackle their fortunes from IT.
Unfortunately, the public cloud is fraught with its own challenges and may not always be suitable (although for some
applications, it represents a perfect platform). That’s why more
and more organizations are turning to enterprise cloud —
which carries public cloud support and characteristics — to
meet critical business needs.

About This Book
There is more to the cloud than meets the eye. This 48‐page
journey helps you understand enterprise cloud and how it fits
into your datacenter paradigm. By the end of this book, you
see just how enterprise cloud fits into the landscape and how
it can help you propel your business into the 22nd century.

Foolish Assumptions
For this book, I assume you have at least a basic understanding of virtualization, storage, cloud, and datacenter computing. The general audience for this book is anyone in IT who
wants to learn more about how enterprise cloud can help
address evolving business needs. The audience is intended to
be technical staff as well as managerial and executive staff.

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