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Cloud Fears
Linux (Aug 11 2010)
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Cloud computing has entered the mainstream vocabulary in Information Technology. Every day the decibel level keeps going up. Yesterday’s SaaS vendors like Salesforce.com have become the cheer-leaders of the Cloud mantra. Then the arguably godfather role of cloud goes to Jeff Bezos of Amazon. His huge investment in Amazon data center with 30% utilization prompted him to seek new avenues of monetization. Thus came AWS (Amazon Web Services) and its component pieces such as S3, EC2, etc. In the new cloud lexicon, this can be termed as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) or PaaS (Platform as a Service).
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