Anthony Burke from Cisco Inferno comments:

Gone are the days of where you pay once and ride off into the sunset. The industry is changing and renting virtual servers for a deterministic price per hour allows flexibility when investing in a cloud platform. But before you race off and decide cloud bursting, hosted VPS, or a total cloud solution is for  you, get your head around the drivers that define your businesses purchases.

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