[LINK] Cloud Computing Services in Australia?

[Roger Clarke]

At 9:40 +1100 7/11/11, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/index.cfm
>The "shared pool of configurable computing resources" aspect is way
>beyond the 1960s "service bureau" model.

In a further paper on CC that I've got in draft form, I've shortened 
the section on 'what's the difference from other forms of 
outourcing?' down to 'virtualisation of the servers, i.e. 
re-discovery that the term 'server' refers to software not hardware'.

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