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. > > 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. > > Exactly.
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