List of Figures

Figure 1 Basic structure of cloud computing environment 1 Figure 2 Architecture of cloud computing 5 Figure 1.1 Phases of computing technologies 11 Figure 1.2 Development of technology 24 Figure 2.1 Key market players in IaaS 34 Figure 2.2 Key companies in PaaS space 36 Figure 2.3 Key companies in SaaS space 37 Figure 2.4 Relationship between SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS 38 Figure 2.5 Cloud service models and consumers 39 Figure 2.6 Public cloud 41 Figure 2.7 Private cloud 42 Figure 2.8 Community cloud 43 Figure 2.9 Overview of cloud migration strategies 48 Figure 3.1 Screenshot of Google Compute Engine 55 Figure 3.2 Screenshot of Amazon EC2 console 56 Figure 3.3 Screenshot of Google Cloud Storage 57 Figure 3.4 Screenshot of features of Google Cloud Storage platform 58 Figure 3.5 Screenshot of features of Amazon Simple Storage Service platform 59 Figure 3.6 Screenshot of bucket on S3 console 60 Figure 3.7 Screenshot of Google Cloud console 62 Figure 3.8 Screenshot of Google Cloud datastore 63 Figure 3.9 Screenshot of Amazon Relational Data store console 64 Figure 3.10 Screenshot of Amazon Relational Data store console 65 Figure 3.11 Screenshot of Google App Engine console 67 Figure 3.12 Screenshot of Amazon Simple Queue Service 68 Figure 3.13 Screenshot of Amazon CloudFront 70 Figure 3.14 Screenshot of Amazon Elastic MapReduce 71 Figure 3.15 Screenshot of Google BigQuery 72 Figure 3.16 Screenshot of Amazon CloudFormation 74 Figure 3.17 Screenshot of Amazon Elastic Beanstalk 75 Figure 3.18 Screenshot of Amazon Identity and Access Management 76 Figure 4.1 User interface of Librarika 87 Figure 4.2 Snapshot of BBB Website 88 Figure 4.3 Snapshot of cloud hosted Web OPAC 89 Figure 4.4 Snapshot of TinyCat OPAC interface 90 Figure 4.5 Snapshot of OCLC’s Enquire interface 91 Figure 4.6 Snapshot of Mendeley cloud interface 93 Figure 4.7 Snapshot of Google Forms developed at Central University of South Bihar 94 Figure 4.8 Snapshot of responses collected from Google Forms at Central University of South Bihar 95 Figure 5.1 Traditional IT library environments 104 Figure 5.2 Cloud computing environment 105 Figure 5.3 Players in cloud library environment 123