Now that we have a firmer grip on what the cloud is, it is easier to see why it is such a big deal. The cloud is transforming and will continue to transform the computing industry. In the future we may talk about on-premise data centers in the same way as we do about mainframes today, as relics of the past that definitely work well enough, but are mostly used because moving away from them entirely was too difficult. Some applications will probably remain in the on-premise data center as they have on the mainframe, but no one will build new data centers of their own unless they have very particular ...
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