"Service Oriented Infrastructures and Cloud Service Platforms for the Enterprise - A selection of common capabilities validated in real-life business trials by the BEinGRID consortium" Dimitrakos, Theo; Martrat, Josep; Wesner, Stefan (Eds.) 2010, XV, 210 p., Hardcover Springer - ISBN: 978-3-642-04085-6

"Approaching the Cloud: Better Business Using Grid Solutions"

The BEinGRID publication gives an impressive overview of twenty-five successful case studies covering the industrial sectors from Advanced Manufacturing, Media, Financial, Retail and Logistics, Environment and e-Science, Telecommunication, Tourism, Agriculture and Health showing how businesses may profit from distributed computing from Grid to Cloud solutions.

In an economy that often insists on proven business cases to innovate, the booklet offers just that: concrete examples of how and why Grid and Cloud solutions can benefit the described industrial sectors.

Also included are post-project perspectives with IT-Tude.com, the Cloud momentum story, ten tips towards successful Grid-based business and much more.