On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Schwartz, Philip Marc (LNG-BCT) < [email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, so for your terms vps is actually a typical virtualized cloud > environment. I wasn't aware there was a difference. If we're splitting hairs, "VPS" predates "cloud" by many years (my employer was instrumental in popularizing "VPS" starting in 2003), and "cloud" is merely a way of thinking about architecture instead of a specific kind of architecture. Cloud computing on Wikipedia debuted in 2007 [1], and the article on VPS debuted in 2004 [2]. (Although that doesn't indicate a whole lot, I think it's a minor piece of evidence toward what I'm saying here.) To summarize: you can accomplish cloud-like behavior with any kind of infrastructure. It's just a way of thinking about infrastructure, that's all. Calling a specific kind of infrastructure deployment "cloud", I think, is a bit deceptive; it is getting more and more deceptive with Microsoft's recent marketing around Windows Cloud. Many Joe Sixpacks probably now think cloud is a fancy way to accomplish Photoshop, given the ad I've seen most frequently from that campaign. Cloud is a methodology, not a type of hosting. > The core is not all large named providers so by the goals of the libcloud > project yours should be welcomed. > I agree that the more providers the merrier, but I don't particularly agree with making it about "large" providers. J [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cloud_computing&oldid=112299950 [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virtual_private_server&oldid=2932046
