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Structure 08: Making Money on the Stack

Posted on June 25, 2008

Cloud computing isn t as nebulous as its name implies. Thanks to virtualization, one can separate the storage from the servers and the servers from the software but it s also about bandwidth. The primary value will be more about moving data from the hardware to the end user. To that end, Google has automated its network and is using structured metadata to track how much it costs the company to move a bit or byte from one geographic area to another, according to Vijay Gill, manager of engineering at Google.That allows Google to charge users based not just on compute cycles but on their ac...

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