Configuration Systems

Fri Jun 8 07:06:45 UTC 2012

On 6/7/12 20:53 , Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> It is like that supreme court judge who defined porn as "i know it
> when I see it"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobellis_v._Ohio

a case which is notable in this context for having four differing
majority opinions.

> 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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