Fighting Physics: A Tough Battle.

The article discusses the software-as-a-service (SaaS) option that companies use to save money and simplify corporate computing infrastructures. The author indicates that the Internet's routing infrastructure and the laws of physics affect the levels of performance associated with SaaS. Other topics...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 7; pp. 60 - 66
Autor principal:	SMITH, JONATHAN M.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Jul2009
Materias:	Distributed computing Cloud computing Cost control Routing (Computer network management) Physics Speed of light
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