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Date: 2012-08-30 02:27 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sethg
I think cloudishness and replication are orthogonal. You can have replicated data outside the cloud (e.g., if you have a computer on your desktop with a bunch of disk drives and turn those drives into a RAID array), and you can have a cloud without replicated data (e.g., if you are using cloud services to get computer-power-on-tap rather than for data storage).

Cloud computing is “in” because, now that fast Internet connections are cheap (by First World standards), it is often more cost-effective to contract out the whole messy business of keeping a physical server running, keeping it connected to the Net, backing up data, etc., then to make someone on your own staff responsible for all that. There’s probably something Marx-like to say about this trend, but I’m not sure how it fits into the D&G schema.
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