[Discuss] What Happens when a cloud service shuts down

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 01/20/2012 07:14 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
>> Maybe I'm late to the IT party, but how do you mean that it's going
>> back to the way it used to be?  I've never really experienced (that I
> In the old-old days, only the largest institutions could afford computers.  Smaller organizations leased time on their iron.  That's just how things were done.
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> And that's what you do today when you buy time on Amazon's or Google's data centers: you lease time on their iron.  The nature of the iron has changed.  It's now a huge cluster of relatively small units instead of a room-sized monolith but the use model is the same and just as importantly the reason is the same.
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Exactly.

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