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Virtualized I/O Takes Cloud Computing to the Next Level

GigaOm Jul 20 09

The folks behind PrimaCloud, a cloud computing and storage product that offers a service-level agreement that it claims delivers 99.99 reliability (that means it can go down 53 minutes each year), said today it will save $1 million by virtualizing its network and will spend 50 percent less to deliver its high reliability cloud. The [...]Tweet This Full story...

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