[ale] Anyone done business cases for managing cloud servers?

[Chris Fowler]

On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 10:05 -0500, Elmer Masters wrote:
> the primary difference being I'm not going to
> accidentally dump[ coffee on a cloud server. 

With Rackspace if I want to test something on its own "server" I just
clock a button on their web interface and 5 minutes later I have a
CentOS 6 system ready.

Two weeks ago I brought up 2 test systems.  No requisition, no arguing,
and no waiting for UPS.

Chris