What are the factors that have made cloud-based hosting ...

[amal]

What are the factors that have made cloud-based hosting advantageous?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Parting business with an outsource vendor is exceedingly risky.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

[dmurph1496]

Answer to Question 1

Three factors have made cloud-based hosting advantageous today. First, processors, data communication, and data storage are so cheap that they are nearly free. At the scale of a Web farm of hundreds of thousands of processors, providing a virtual machine for an hour costs essentially nothing. Data communication is so cheap that getting the data to and from that processor is also nearly free. Second, virtualization technology enables the near instantaneous creation of a new virtual machine. The customer provides (or creates in the cloud) a disk image of the data and programs of the machine it wants to provision. Virtualization software does the rest. Finally, Internet-based standards enable cloud-hosting vendors to provide processing capabilities in flexible, yet standardized, ways.

Answer to Question 2

TRUE

[amal]

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[dyrone]

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