The growing buzz around cloud computing sounds eerily familiar to the utility computing noise of a few years ago.But there is a difference–or at least people in the business swear there is.In reading blogs and speaking to a few people, I’ve found that cloud computing does indeed rehash some of the ideas of the past, but there are significant technology advances, notably virtualization, that set it apart.
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