http://entangledcontinua.com/blog/2008/07/29/cloud-computing-isnt-new-and-isnt-the-answer/ In which Eric will muse over and pick apart various aspects of science, technology, and economics. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:21:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://entangledcontinua.com/blog/2008/07/29/cloud-computing-isnt-new-and-isnt-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Database Management » Blog Archive » Cloud Computing Isn’t New and Isn’t the Answer Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:57:20 +0000 http://entangledcontinua.com/blog/?p=17#comment-184 [...] Styx online wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Over the last couple of weeks, there has been quite a bit written about cloud computing, most recently about the effort by Intel HP and Yahoo. The article I linked to makes a very important point. The notion of a dummy terminal that has services delivered to it by a server is as old as computing itself. Whenever there is an application that can only be performed in a timely manner by expensive hardware, centralized computing becomes the computing paradigm for those that want to run that applica [...] [...] Styx online wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Over the last couple of weeks, there has been quite a bit written about cloud computing, most recently about the effort by Intel HP and Yahoo. The article I linked to makes a very important point. The notion of a dummy terminal that has services delivered to it by a server is as old as computing itself. Whenever there is an application that can only be performed in a timely manner by expensive hardware, centralized computing becomes the computing paradigm for those that want to run that applica [...]

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