Gen and the Cloud
I’ve been wondering lately if a Gen application could be deployed into a cloud.
Admittedly I haven’t looked into this a great deal as of yet, but the nearest match to currently supported Gen platforms is Microsoft’s Azure platform, based around .NET.
From a technology perspective, cloud computing appears to offer massively scalable infrastructure to organisations wishing to take advantage of being isolated from the underlying infrastructure that applications run on and allow them to focus on the development of the software which fits their needs.
Cloud computing is a serious contender for the future of computing as a commodity item, and it will be interesting to see if/when Gen and the Cloud come together.
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