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Lately, I've been hanging around some cloud technologists, cloud service providers, virtualization customers, and security practitioners. I've been asking a lot of basic questions, trying to understand when and how cloud computing/virtualization will be ready to support any application or workload. UPDATED 2/2 4:00 PM
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