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I must confess that when I hear the phrase “in the cloud” I immediately picture white fluffy clouds with desktop computers, complete with monitors and keyboards strewn about. I’m not sure where this image originated because I know that Microsoft has datacenters worldwide that are situated firmly on the ground consisting of thousands of commodity servers in racks that look nothing like desktop computers. Microsoft’s cloud services are branded Microsoft Azure.
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Kellenberger, K., Shaw, S. (2014). Running SQL Server in the Cloud. In: Beginning T-SQL. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0046-9_17
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