The Next Web

“Moving along, cloud computing, according to Werner, should become something cheap enough to simply use, without a care to its expense. His statement explains the sentiment well: “When you switch on the lights, you don’t think about it’s going to cost.” Another fun quip, in regards to how it can be simpler to ship a box of discs to Amazon, for upload, rather than trying to do it yourself: “Do not underestimate the bandwidth of a FedEx box.” As we noted earlier, broadband has made interacting with the cloud possible, but when it comes to big data, even that isn’t always enough.”

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