Timeline for Why didn't "cloud computing" offer appear earlier?
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| Oct 25, 2012 at 17:52 | comment | added | Tom Anderson | @JörgWMittag: It's commodity in that it's not bespoke. That is, in the same way that a Gucci handbag or a Rolls-Royce is commodity! | |
| Oct 25, 2012 at 8:05 | comment | added | user | @JörgWMittag I for one am not sure I'd really consider the S/360 "commodity hardware", though. | |
| Oct 24, 2012 at 22:20 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | Efficient virtualization has been available since the 1960s, at least since the IBM S/360. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 16:16 | comment | added | Lie Ryan | +1 for mentioning virtualizations. Previously virtualizations were available, but they were very inefficient, it's only recently that hypervisor technology matured to the point where virtualization actually makes sense. Virtualization makes it easy for cloud providers to freely move servers around without fear of breaking the system. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 15:39 | comment | added | user53019 | This is a solid answer that would be enhanced if you called out the changes within the x86 chips to support virtualization. Without their ability to support hypervisors, virtualization couldn't take off on the x86 line. | |
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| Oct 23, 2012 at 15:13 | history | answered | Chloe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |