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How the Cloud is not "what we already do", and why Larry Ellison is wrong
Submitted by r I C h on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 17:22Larry Ellison has stated that Cloud Computing is "everything that we already do", and In many ways, I totally agree. The big difference is that Cloud-based technologies let us do everything much faster, smarter, and often at a greatly reduced cost.
Cloud Computing encompasses a lot of areas (and we go into more detail below), but whether you're talking about Google Apps or AWS, "the Cloud" brings some very disruptive changes. Here's the broad strokes: