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Re:Why Cloud is Like Email in the 1980's by rmason on Saturday May 14, 2011 @01:41PM (#2548138)
You could build an infrastructure across multiple clouds. When AWS went down your software would automatically fire up more instances on GAE or Rackspace Cloud to replace it. A complex layer of software that knitted everything together would result in a large increase in reliability.
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Re:Why Cloud is Like Email in the 1980's by miGlanz on Saturday May 14, 2011 @02:28PM (#2548229)
How is that not possible today?
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Re:Why Cloud is Like Email in the 1980's by wwrap on Saturday May 14, 2011 @05:18PM (#2548568)
It could be 'serverside' rather than 'clientside'.

As in, sure you can connect the AIM and MSN chat networks, but you yourself have to run a server to connect the two.

Currently one also has to have migration functionality written by themselves. Instead, amazon could provide it, just like AIM could provide an MSN gateway themselves.

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