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The following articles point to the huge huge impact of cloud computing in 2009. first a couple of quotes: Nearly every major vendor has announced cloud strategies over the last year—not just the usual suspects Google or the space-leading Amazon, but enter Microsoft and IBM along with a host of others.
“Virtualization and cloud computing are the key architectural breaks driving a massive transformation in the world of computing,” said Patrick Kerpan, chief technology officer and cofounder of CohesiveFT, a cloud infrastructure software provider. “It is computing ‘gone through the looking glass.’ We will look back and not be able to remember how we used to do things. It will be similar to the world of five years before Netscape, to five years after Netscape."
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." ~ Alvin Toffler
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Ben, I read the post. He has qualms with backing up to an online service. Here is my take on that. When backing up to an online service you should not be backing up your disaster recovery disk. Just your data files. I have a NAS device with 3 terabytes of space, every week I backup my server image to that device. Every night, I back up my data files to the online backup.
The Cloud I a talking about here is not for backup but for actually hosting your database.
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Oops, I was linking to a specific post, I meant to link to the top of the thread. There gchiu links to his website where he says this: "... Amazon has also just recently created the abililty to run Windows 2003 virtual servers for the small cost.
The implication of this is that we should be able to provide a service whereby if your hardware suffers a failure, and you have been using the backup service, then we can rapidly provision a new server for you on Amazon containing all your most recent set of data. Thus you have the plus of offsite backup, and now the major benefit of having a redundant server available to you in the cloud."
Now it's a backup for him, but it's only a step away from being the primary host for some customer of his.
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