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Re:Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing by k__ on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @05:28AM (#13262378)
Isn't the USP of the cloud that you don't need to buy and manage the "physical" devices?

I mean yes, maybe some companies that already exist have an infrastructure management team, but if you want to start a business, the less physical stuff you have, the better.

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Re:Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing by gaius on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @10:58AM (#13263839)
You still need to manage them. All "cloud" saves you really is the effort of racking'n'stacking, which is 1 day out of a 1000-2000 day lifecycle.

I concede that cloud lets you get up and running very quickly - just like staying in a hotel lets you live in a foreign city very quickly too. But if you want to stay longer than a few weeks, you'd be looking at an apartment instead...

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