Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing

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Published: April 25, 2010Posted in: Amazon, Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), Business Intelligence, Case Studies & Tutorials, Cloud Services, Clouds, Opinions & ExplanationsTags:

This year, Netflix made what looked like a peculiar choice: the DVD-by-mail company decided that over the next two years, it would move most of its Web technology — customer movie queues, search tools and the like — over to the computer servers of one of its chief rivals, Amazon.com.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/technology/19cloud.html?src=busln

In Amazon’s model, businesses pay only for the computing cycles they use. Customers eliminate the upfront cost of computer hardware and can then buy more time on Amazon’s data center as needed.

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Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing

In Amazon’s model, businesses pay only for the computing cycles they use. Customers eliminate the upfront cost of computer hardware and can then buy more time on Amazon’s data center as needed.

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