Get Your Head Out Of The Clouds

October 6, 2009 from Forbes – “If you believed everything you read, then some time in the next few months companies all across America will be shutting down their data centers, switching off their servers and transferring all of their data and storage tasks to a bookseller by the name of Amazon.com.

It's called "cloud computing," and it's billed as this year's Next Big Thing. The idea is that computing will become like electricity, a commodity that people needn't bother to make themselves. A few big companies will run data centers that everyone else will tap into via the Internet. Amazon's Web services were one of the first in this market, and it's what many point to when discussing the topic…"

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