Chapter 4. The Next Technology Paradigm: Computing as a Utility
If you can make [computing] a utility, that means your network is on all the time…and you'll use special services only when you need them. If you do one day's work of supercomputing a month, you don't need to own it.
—Joel Birnbaum, former CTO, Hewlett-Packard Company
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Joel Birnbaum, who was HP's chief technology officer at the time, made a very telling remark when he said that Itanium does for computing what the World Wide Web did for data. That statement could be taken to mean many things to different people, ...
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