How Amazon Followed Google Into the World of Secret Servers

Submitted Dec 03, 2012 by Taylor Wimberly

Chris Pinkham was walking through a data center that would one day house Amazon’s seminal cloud computing service – the Elastic Compute Cloud – when he came face to face with a cage of Google machines.

Full article on wired.com

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78 decker 12/05/12 6:34 PM

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I think the next innovation in servers are lower powered ARM processors in server farm clusters.

http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/keystone-microserver-soc-ARM-multi-core,2-413.html

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11 ConfuciusTse 12/06/12 1:54 AM

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Cloud computing is starting to really trickle down to the average consumer level. Good to know that both Amazon and Google, reliable brands, will be there when I need it. For now I’m still using my own home servers but I can see the attraction of going all cloud.

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