Configuration Systems
Suresh Ramasubramanian
ops.lists at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 03:53:44 UTC 2012
It is like that supreme court judge who defined porn as "i know it
when I see it"
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Paul Graydon <paul at paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote:
> Your original definition: "cloud" == "you rented a colo, but have no clue
> where". I know exactly where my colo is. I know exactly where my physical
> servers are. If I run a private cloud on those servers and provision stuff
> there, I'll still know exactly where my colo is and I'll still know where my
> "cloud" infrastructure is deployed
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Private_cloud) Even that wiki
> page doesn't quite go far enough in defining cloud, at least compared to
> stuff people sell as "cloud" (as I said, cloud is a marketing term, not an
> engineering one. Its accuracy is negligible)
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)
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