<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">"Nobody Knew How Big a Deal the Cloud Would Be — They Do Now</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">"TEN YEARS AGO, Amazon unleashed a technology that we now call, for better or for worse, cloud computing. As it turned out, the cloud spawned a revolution. Along the way, many were slow to realize just how big this revolution could be. But now, as 2015 comes to a close, they finally do.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">"Back in 2006, Amazon was just an online retailer, but it decided to try something new. It offered up a series of online services where the world’s businesses could build and operate software—websites and mobile apps, in particular—without setting up their own hardware. Simply by opening a web browser, these businesses could tap into a virtually unlimited amount of computing power. And they did..."</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Read more...</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/12/2015-was-the-year-the-cloud-defeated-techs-walking-dead/">http://www.wired.com/2015/12/2015-was-the-year-the-cloud-defeated-techs-walking-dead/</a></font></div></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">And a big ho ho ho ho* to you all</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Mark</div><br></div>-- <div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">* The last ho is a Christmas bonus for you. Use it as you like.</div><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Mark Kelly</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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