Good point but but on a technical list (And I assume you think you are
technical),
I would expect the buzzwords to be less frequent. Even if your data is on a
server or
a bunch of servers it could just as easily be called remote/online backup. The
term Cloud
is purely marketing bullshit at this poing. Products that have been around for
ages started
calling themselves cloud even though nothing had changed.
Ps. Actually Amazon is not scattered that much, usually local to a single
datacenter and lucky
if you have 3 copies, I worked there :)
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:59:52PM -0400, Brian Weeden wrote:
> The reason to use "cloud": is to convey that it is a service that isn't tied
> to a specific machine or set of machines. Even if you use "online server
> storage" that still infers that a specific computer or cluster of computers
> somewhere has the data. And if that computer dies, the data is gone.
>
> The whole point with a cloud-based system is to separate the service
> (processing power, data storage, whatever) from the hardware. Gmail is a
> cloud-based service, and as a user you have no clue where the data is
> physically stored, where the processing is done, or how it gets to you And
> in the case of a true cloud (like Google, Amazon, Rackspace, etc) the data
> is likely scattered everywhere, across multiple backbones/grids/continents.
--
Bryan G. Seitz
