Terremark WorldWide Inc. is rolling out a cloud computing service, accelerating a trend in which servers and storage are being provided over the Web. Terremark has a slightly different take on cloud computing than rival Amazon, which offers separate services for storage and servers, and lets customers buy as many or as few computing resources as they want. With Terremark, customers purchase a dedicated pool of processing, memory and storage, billed in a lump sum, and can scale up on the fly as needed. The “cloud” is a mix of servers, storage and virtualization software from HP, IBM, Cisco, VMware and 3Par.
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