cloud spanning

Using two or more datacenters to retrieve content for the same application. The datacenters may be private, public or both. For example, the text of the Windows version of this encyclopedia is downloaded from Internet servers in one datacenter, while the images come from Amazon's S3 cloud. See cloudbursting.

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