Google's Schmidt Says He 'Screwed Up' On Social Networking

"Google chairman Eric Schmidt took responsibility for the search titan's failure to counter Facebook's explosive growth, saying he saw the threat coming but failed to counter it." Note: The original link's landing page was changed after we posted it. The one showing now goes to a Wired article. The same story (coverage of a May 31 conference presentation by Schmidt) also quotes him as saying, unsurprisingly, that cloud services will be 'the death of IT as we know it.'"

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[jaymz2k4]

The posted url now 410's. here's a link [pcmag.com] to the article on PC mag and the wired source [wired.com] too...

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[jbigboote]

try this one: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/googles-schmidt-social/ [wired.com]

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[mikeroySoft]

A server farm can host a 'cloud', certainly, they aren't necessary the same thing.
Servers are hardware. A 'cloud' represents a logical infrastructure, independent of the hardware it's currently sitting on.
With such an abstraction, you can more easily and reliably do things like disaster recovery, load balancing, storage migration, fail-over.. etc.. Gives the infrastructure the agility to deal with change, whether it's planned or not.