By my count, we now have 3 engineers that have chimed in and somewhere between 5 and 6 definitions. Q.E. D.
Owen On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > It is like that supreme court judge who defined porn as "i know it > when I see it" > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Paul Graydon <p...@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote: >> Your original definition: "cloud" == "you rented a colo, but have no clue >> where". I know exactly where my colo is. I know exactly where my physical >> servers are. If I run a private cloud on those servers and provision stuff >> there, I'll still know exactly where my colo is and I'll still know where my >> "cloud" infrastructure is deployed >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Private_cloud) Even that wiki >> page doesn't quite go far enough in defining cloud, at least compared to >> stuff people sell as "cloud" (as I said, cloud is a marketing term, not an >> engineering one. Its accuracy is negligible) > > > > -- > Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)
