This article misses a fundamental point; if a single failure can bring down the whole service then it's...

This article misses a fundamental point; if a single failure can bring down the whole service then it's not truly cloud, it's just a hosted service.

Down with the data center: can a peer-to-peer swarm replace cloud computing? Not long ago, we looked to "the cloud" and saw a liberating force, a way to unshackle ourselves from the messiness of computing by offloading our data into large, mysterious, supposedly secure...

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