Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing

The clearest example would be a company that had its product endorsed by Oprah Winfrey one day and had to increase its server capacity the next day to prevent its website from crashing. Renting the huge server capacity of a major provider for the time needed, the firm would save revenues, reputation, and unneeded capital expenditures. Coming after decades of increased capacity and expectations from the desktop at the network

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