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The network is the bottleneck?
There is a really nice article on StorageMojo about Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is more or less the idea that you can offload your storage and processing tasks to a very large set of computers, typically maintained by some large company (such as Amazon). The novelty is that you abstract out where the data is held and which machine does the processing — not unlike what MapReduce does.
This new level of abstraction is probably a significant step forward in the way we write software….
