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No More Roach Motels For Data In The Clouds

January 12, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The central tenets of cloud computing, which really ought to be called utility computing, is that you only pay for what you use and that you can turn compute, storage, and networking off when you are not actually using, thus freeing up capacity for those who need it. …

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