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Cloud Computing: Worthy Of Definition(s)

January 16th, 2009
John Brand, VP, CIO Exec Partner
John Brand VP, CIO Exec Partner

Summary

Hydrasight notes that the terms "cloud," "utility," "on-demand," "software-as-a-service (SaaS)," and "network computing" are being used to describe a very simple premise: that the server-centric computing model is (slowly) returning to favor. Moreover, we believe that addressing variability in demand will make traditional internal/on-premises solutions increasingly cost- and time-prohibitive.

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