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Cloud computing: A catchphrase in puberty

How Google and Amazon will take your money and step on your dreams Fail and You It's been called a lot of things: utility computing, grid computing, distributed computing, and now cloud computing. You can come up with any CTO-friendly name you like, but... ...full story at the register (uk)

from the register (uk) on Mon, Aug 25 2008

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