IT architectures have developed to incorporate virtualization and cloud computing, where physical resources are abstracted and pooled in several configurations to meet application requirements. Clouds may be distributed throughout locations and shared with other IT users, or they can be contained within a corporate data center, or some mixture of both deployments. These purposes make use of programmed directions to control, consolidate, disperse and otherwise work with knowledge for a enterprise function. Joshua P. Meltzer is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. At Brookings, Meltzer works on worldwide commerce legislation and policy points with a give consideration to the World Trade Organization and large free trade agreements such because the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Specific areas of focus embrace digital commerce where he leads the Digital Economy and Trade Project.

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