* Posts by jimt222

1 publicly visible post • joined 16 Feb 2010

Another annoying cloud pitch

jimt222

Cloud is new, and a game changer

Look up the Eli Lilly case study .. they were able to spin up a 64-machine cluster on Amazon to do some bioinformatics sequencing .. it took 20 minutes to do the run and cost them a total of $6.40.

To do this the traditional way would have taken weeks and tens of thousands of $.

This kind of thing was not possible before the "Cloud" no matter what Larry Ellison and all the other "this cloud stuff is nothing new" people say.