Re:Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2
by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @06:23PM
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Yep
Not only that, but many enterprise systems are not just a server, or even a couple of servers, but a cluster of servers of various configurations.
With good bandwidth, you could pull the entire bunch down locally to use in dev and testing. That's unheard of as far as I know (although it has been the holy grail for some time) Businesses that start and grow in an environment like this are going to have significant advantages over older businesses.
Not only that, but many enterprise systems are not just a server, or even a couple of servers, but a cluster of servers of various configurations.
With good bandwidth, you could pull the entire bunch down locally to use in dev and testing. That's unheard of as far as I know (although it has been the holy grail for some time) Businesses that start and grow in an environment like this are going to have significant advantages over older businesses.