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 <paul@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.lists@gmail.com)