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By David Linthicum – The recent Amazon Web Services outage reminded us once again that cloud computing is not yet a perfect science.
Most organizations that implement cloud computing view clouds as a simple collection of services or APIs; they use the cloud functions, such as storage and compute, through these services. When they implement cloud computing services, they see it as just a matter of mixing and matching these services in an application or process to form the solution. more> http://tinyurl.com/8blgrbn
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