Breaking the IT Hardware Spiral
A final aspect of utility computing is that a major capital investment is not necessarily a prerequisite for getting high levels of computing power. In fact, laying out large amounts of capital to buy needed computing capacity may in itself be obsolete soon.
Instead, you should be able to buy computing power the way you do electricity or water. If your needs spike up or drop down, you should be able to buy more or less in a given year or month as needed. Computing as a utility should foster the paradigms of pay by use, don't worry where the work is done, and it doesn't matter what kind of machine the work is done on so long as it is fast and accurate.
Most clients agree that this model will become increasingly ...
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