Spot on Anne. There are more sophisticated ways to allocate and deliver infrastructure to customers. But the basic concept is the same--using someone else's hardware.
The advances may make it cheaper and more accessible than before. This may make it workable for additional customers whereas before it was too costly to outsource in some cases. But, getting back to the thin slice being addressed in Morgenthal's interview, the evaluation criteria remains the same, IMO--does outsourcing make sense given one's particular goals and constraints. The answer may be yes more often now, if cost was the halting issue. -Rob --- In [email protected], Anne Thomas Manes <atma...@...> wrote: > > Minor nit correction Ashraf: > > Cloud computing (at least at the infrastructure level) is enabled by > recent advancements in virtualization. It is not not simply > repackaged grid/utility computing. We couldn't do 10 years ago the > kind of stuff we can do today. > > Anne
