The tragedy is that Medicare Advantagearchitecture is far from perfect and HHS could save money if it wanted to, in particular by targeting the private fee-for-service plans that mimic all of traditional Medicare's dysfunctions except with an element of private profit.
Most new applications that leverage a cloud platform also understand how to leverage this type of architecture to take advantage of the cloud-delivered resources.
Even Microsoft is getting into the game with its Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) that enables SQL Server customers evolve their SQL databases to Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture to take advantage of commodity hardware.
Until smartphone-class devices become powerful enough to run Flash acceptably (or Hulu supports other video playback methods), a PC-based architecture will generally have the advantage in this burgeoning category.
Fast flux takes advantage of an option built into the Web's architecture, which allows site owners to switch the Internet Protocol address of a site without changing its domain name.