I would agree that would be called private cloud. I guess it needs a definition behind "cloud provider" according to the author. I think hardware solely for y

I would agree that would be called private cloud. I guess it needs a definition behind "cloud provider" according to the author. I think hardware solely for your use (including networking/disk) would be my minimum definition, but not bare-metal. I'm coming at this from a security boundary perspective and where liabilities are. Where provisioning of resources can be dynamic and moved.