Microsoft loves the cloud and wants to rule it
Posted by Mike on Friday, November 19, 2010
Information technology is undergoing a seismic shift towards the cloud, a disruption we believe is as game-changing as the transition from mainframes to client/server.
Many people talk about the cloud as a return to the mainframe model, since the basic idea behind cloud computing is to centralize resources for economies of scale. Yet the authors go out of their way to dismiss the mainframe comparison, noting that the economies of scale for the cloud are greater than that for mainframes — and that the cloud has more “modularity and agility” than client/server.
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