Richards tells Computing how firms get sucked into the Amazon cloud, and how he plans to replicate entire data centres over the WAN
"Amazon Elastic Map Reduce runs like a dog. It's pathetically slow, we've done benchmarks. It's because it's metered; they charge by the minute." So says David Richards, CEO of distributed compu...
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