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) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian ([email protected])

