No no... now it's a 'Private Cloud'. This is the technical way of 'mocking the marketers' since they co-opted all the terminology.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Brian Desmond <[email protected]>wrote: > This certainly didn't used to be called the cloud - this is classic service > hosting. I usually consider cloud to require Internet connection between you > and the provider as opposed to private WAN, but that's just me. > > Thanks, > Brian Desmond > [email protected] > > w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:14 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: LDAP\DC with a public IP > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> You have an IP address on your private side that duplicates their > >> private net, and you're connected to them via some kind of VPN or > >> other secure router, so you do a one-to-one static NAT between your > >> private net and some other private net that they're not using. > > > > Yes that's exactly what I was describing. That doesn't usually come to > > mind in the same thought as "cloud" though. > > "Cloud" means whatever the speaker wants it to, these days. :) But I > don't even see this one as much of a stretch: If the provider has a big net > of distributed datacenters, and you're outsourcing some service to that, and > the provider gives you a VPN box to make the link, that still seems pretty > cloud-ish to me. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
