Introduction to Cloud Computing by David Platt

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David Platt of the Harvard University Extension School and CEO of Rolling Thunder Computing has created a 3 lecture series on Cloud Computing for students. This first lecture provides an introduction to Cloud Computing and covers the historical background, definitions of Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service and details the commercial offerings from the top cloud vendors. He concludes the lecture with a demonstration of how to get started with cloud development using Windows Azure.

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