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I heard once: "'Private Cloud' is like calling your house a 'Private Hotel'".

• dragonwriter 13y ago
  That's not at all the case. "Cloud" isn't about external hosting, its about using virtualization to allow dynamic provisioning of resources. Outsourced external hosting was around a long time before cloud computing. Its a key application of cloud computing, but they are no more equivalent than "internal compustion engine" is equivalent to "wheeled land vehicle".
  • asdasf 13y ago
    >"Cloud" isn't about external hosting Yes it is. You represent the internet as a cloud on shitty visio diagrams. That is where putting stuff "in the cloud" comes from.
  • zwily 13y ago
    I think that's the problem - there are differing opinions on what "cloud" actually means.
• grey-area 13y ago
  Like an hôtel particulier? That's the origin of the word hotel.