[irq]: techie interrupted13/07/2012
“ This is another area where cloud computing can help. Cloud computing can allow mid-sized and even small companies to have many different datacenters optimized for different goals all over the world. Using Amazon Web Services, a company can house workloads near customers in Singapore, Tokyo, Tokyo, Brazil, and Ireland to be close to their international customers. Being close to these customers makes a big difference in the overall quality of customer experience (see: The Cost of Latency for more detail on how much latency really matters). As well as allowing a company to cost effectively have an international presence, cloud computing also allows companies to make careful decisions on where they locate workloads in North America. Again using AWS as the example, customers can place workloads in Virginia to serve the east coast or use Northern California to serve the population dense California region. If the workloads are not latency sensitive or is serving customers near the Pacific Northwest, they can be housed in the AWS Oregon region where the workload can be hosted coal free and less expensively than in Northern California.
The reality is that physics is uncaring and many workloads do need to be close to users. Cloud computing allows all companies to have access to datacenters all over the world so they can target individual workloads to the facilities that most closely meet their goals and the needs of their customers. Some computing will have to stay in New York even though it is mostly coal powered, expensive, and difficult to expand. But some workload will run very economically in the AWS West (Oregon) region where there is no coal power, expansion is cheap, and power inexpensive. „
The reality is that physics is uncaring and many workloads do need to be close to users. Cloud computing allows all companies to have access to datacenters all over the world so they can target individual workloads to the facilities that most closely meet their goals and the needs of their customers. Some computing will have to stay in New York even though it is mostly coal powered, expensive, and difficult to expand. But some workload will run very economically in the AWS West (Oregon) region where there is no coal power, expansion is cheap, and power inexpensive. „
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