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 <[email protected]> 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 ([email protected])

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