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by stephenhuey 4504 days ago
Yes, for many customers it's the right solution. In early 2011 we were setting up some IBM technologies on Amazon Web Services for a Houston power company and IBM had just released some EC2 AMIs for Websphere, Portal, etc. If they didn't want to build their own cloud the way HP is trying to, it seems they could've just struck a deal with Amazon to have their own corner of AWS.