Perhaps today this is true. In 2007 I was working for a webhostet / nascent iaas provider, and we had workloads doing exactly that. Specific example would be

Perhaps today this is true. In 2007 I was working for a webhostet / nascent iaas provider, and we had workloads doing exactly that. Specific example would be Celtic FC who had a baseline of dedicated, but would scale into our VMs during events, i.e. uefa cup games.