TU100, My digital Life, Block 3, Part 2, Session 1.3, Finding published information, Activity 4 and 5.

Locate the One-stop Search box at the bottom of the Library home page (http://library.open.ac.uk/). See if you can find some useful articles about cloud computing.

Searching for the terms “Cloud computing” as a single string in the title field, for English articles written between 1979 and the present yielded 784 results. Link to results.

Some of the more interesting articles include:

1. Cloud Computing: Case Studies and Total Costs of Ownership.
2. Are You Computing in the Clouds? Understanding Cloud Computing.
3. AN OVERVIEW OF CLOUD COMPUTING AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT.

Go to Google, or another search engine if you prefer, and see if you can locate the following item:

• Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

searching for ‘article “Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing” ‘ in google search gave the article as the second result , here. The article also has it’s own site here.

Spend a few minutes searching, then answer the following questions.

1. What sort of document is it and where was it written?
2. Where it is available from?
3. Can you draw any conclusions from your searching about the quality of this item?

1. The article is an academic white paper, a peer-reviewed paper submitted for publication in an academic journal.
2. The article is available from UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory, where it was written and originally published, as well as many online article repositories.
3. Judging from the nature of the journal it was published in, the long list of references in the bibliography, and the fact that the article was written and endorsed by a well-known university suggests the article is a very high quality piece of work by the academics listed as the authors.