Completely agreed; which is why "private cloud" isn't as an insane a term as you might initially suspect (as I did when I first heard it). If you have a global

Completely agreed; which is why "private cloud" isn't as an insane a term as you might initially suspect (as I did when I first heard it). If you have a global company, such as GE running it's own "private cloud" where CPU, Storage and platforms can be spun up by departments, users and others "on demand" and destroyed just as quickly, and it's distributed, fault-tolerant and modular in architecture - why should that not qualify as "cloud"?