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Here at Disney we both control our machines, switches, routers, internet access, etc; and we use CloudStack for an internal cloud. I think your idea of "the cl

• msandford 14y ago
  Yeah that's entirely possible. If you're involved in building or maintaining Disney's internal cloud you have a lot more information about how it works than some folks on the other coast who don't have the right phone numbers or email addresses to really figure out how things work. You can -- because you control the internal cloud -- set certain instances up on physical machines such that you have all the redundancy that you need. But "the cloud" as the author describes isn't a thing that you can peer into and determine it's inner workings, it's more of a black box that you can run an instance on. AWS, Rackspace Cloud and all the folks who sell VM instances don't publish all the data necessary or give you "hooks" into the network infrastructure where you'd need to really make a reliable system. That's the whole point of the cloud. I pay you a very small amount of money for a VM that I rent by the hour and I don't WANT to know the details. Once you start learning (or having opinions) about the underlying network topology and everything else you're not "cloud" anymore, you're something else. What's the right name for it? I don't really know. But I would argue that it's not "cloud"