Emerging Trends
Businesses today need to not just scale up but also to scale back—and to perform such scale-ups and scale-downs quickly, in a matter of a few hours or even minutes. This has placed an enormous demand on IT and datacenters to provide infrastructure not in a matter of days or weeks, but in terms of minutes. In other words, IT organizations should be able to commission and decommission computing services on the fly—something that was a pipe dream a few years ago.
IT organizations and vendors are now able to provide this scaling quickly and easily using a combination of first “virtualizing” computing resources and then building the ability to expose these resources in a metered and controlled fashion (namely “cloud computing”). This ...
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