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be ready to move from any of your cloud computing services to the best
alternative approach—cloud-based or not—quickly and efficiently.)
As with the move to computing based on PCs and networks, things have a
way of working themselves out.
By being a careful and thoughtful adopter of cloud computing, and related
trends, you can avoid mistakes and stay out of dead-end streets. A steady, man-
aged, and assertive adoption will put you ahead of others.
4.11 What to Do Besides Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a huge contributor to green computing by being inherently
more efficient and easier to “green,” and by moving responsibility for computer-
related impacts away from you and your users (who have many other things to
manage ...