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The Elephant in the Computer Room

I was sitting next to Jay Fry in Las Vegas (not at the tables, honest), listening to Tom Bittman’s keynote opening the Gartner Data Center Conference in December, when Tom said “[according to Gartner's analysis], if you fully utilize your own equipment, Amazon [EC2] will cost you twice as much.”  Jay kept on furiously taking [...]