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April 9, 2012 12:37 am GMT
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What The Cloud Doesnt Do
Editors Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip.Were at a technological inflection point, a major branch of computing is splitting off and everyone from the sysadmin to the CEO is wondering what it will mean. The usual cabal of vocal technologists isnt helping the situation. The chatterboxes maintain a constant chant of change: Cloud, Cloud, Cloud! Yet they fail to contextualize it in the overall IT architecture. They imagine a bright future where all servers will hum along in ultra-efficient datacenters (preferably solar powered) diligently tended to by the infrastructure-as-a-service providers. Why would you ever host your own server?Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/px9nVLBBY9g/
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