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NATURE OF THE CLOUD
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efficient model. Because of this, cloud computing has undeniable characteristics of a truly
disruptive innovation.
Cloud computing curves the economics of IT business onto its head. Delivery of infor-
mation technology services (including infrastructure, platform and applications) from the cloud
has both capital expense advantages and operation disbursement advantages. The capability to
pool resources virtualizes them and then dynamically provision from the resource pool yields a
much higher consumption rate and thus better economics sometimes from 15% to 90% consump-
tion, according to IBM research. ...
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