Cloud Computing: Resistance is Pointless

Cloud Computing and VirtualizationCloud Computing isn’t virtualization or vice versa but Cloud Computing creates an excellent platform for virtualization. Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), for example, is a Cloud Computing environment (as the name implies) built using Xen. Alternatively, Google bases its Cloud environment almost entirely upon physical hardware. Providers who create Cloud-based environments for public consumption, like Amazon’s EC2, will do so using virtualization due to its low cost, flexibility, and high performan

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