Chapter 2. A Blueprint for Planning Cloud Infrastructure
Electronic computing was once so rarefied and expensive that few people had ever seen such a machine. Elaborate public displays such as IBM's Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (The IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator, Columbia University Computing History, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/ssec.html), placed behind glass on the ground floor of their New York headquarters in 1948, attest to the esteemed introduction of computing. Yet, through the most remarkable technological progression of human history, computing power has grown while hardware size and power usage have shrunk in equally spectacular orders of magnitude – today, chips less than a billionth the size ...
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