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Re:Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer by mmmBacon on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @10:13PM (#11302157)
Challenge accepted. Been building carrier grade equipment with significantly lower failure rates than that for >15 years. Gear I designed in my first year out of grad school is still in field use today.
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Re:Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer by skippytheroo on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:17AM (#11302718)
New challenge: build your machines for low cost from commodity hardware, rent your machines out to millions of customers and never have a single customer have > 1% of the hardware they land on fail.
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Re:Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer by imtringued on Thursday March 17, 2016 @04:32AM (#11303172)
That's moving the goalpost too far for my taste. But assuming this is true and AWS/GCE are doing this then why are their prices so high?
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