Interview: Delivering power where it's needed at Betfair

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The online gambling firm is putting its money on grid computing and virtualisation to underpin global expansion

Betfair aims to keep hardware spending low despite ballooning web traffic Online betting firm Betfair is working on a global utility computing model for processing web site traffic. The three...

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