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    Interview with Werner Vogels - Part II

    en-gbJune 21, 2010

    About this Episode

    This is the second part of Cliff Saran’s podcast interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels during his recent trip to London. Here Vogels discusses how cloud is a perfect storm, continuing the concept of service-based architectures, which started with service oriented architecture. Traditional software licensing is also changing thanks to the drive towards cloud computing.

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