LTKA #1: Introduction & Overview

Connected Services and Cloud Computing: Overview and Introduction, covering modern communication services, technology and infrastructure.

LTKA #1: Introduction & Overview:

Any Digital Service that brings people together in any Meaningful way - to engage, transact, share, etc.
Services + Connections
Legacy Telco Services: Voice Services, Text Services, Data Services
Services with Internet-Origin: Twitter, Facebook, Google Search, …
New Services: Uber, Airbnb, …
Everyday Life, To Ease Things, to Entertain; For some, those become primary needs …
New Demands, Opportunities, but also Threats!
Serious threats for existing players (incumbents); Right strategy and business agility badly needed to survive and win!

The interesting thing about Cloud Computing is that we’ve redefined Cloud Computing to include everything that we already do…. I don’t understand what we would do differently in the light of Cloud Computing other than change the wording of some of our ads. (Larry Ellison/Oracle, 2008)
A lot of people are jumping on the cloud bandwagon, but I have not heard two people say the same thing about it. There are multiple definitions out there of “the cloud”. (Andy Isherwood/HP, ZDnet News, 2008)
Cloud Computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. (NIST)
Flexible Infrastructure, Abstracted & often Virtualized, Now with many Variants and Technology
Cloud (without “Computing”) is sometimes used interchangebly with Networks or the Internet

CS are in everyday life of more-and-more people. CS becomes an attracting business trend.
CS involve many new emerging technologies including Cloud. CS are rapidly growing in terms of services and applications.