[153540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Configuration Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Jun 7 23:54:20 2012
In-Reply-To: <4FD139AD.2010505@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:23:44 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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" =3D=3D "you rented a colo, but have no =
clue
> where". =C2=A0I know exactly where my colo is. =C2=A0I know exactly where=
my physical
> servers are. =C2=A0If I run a private cloud on those servers and provisio=
n 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) =C2=A0Even t=
hat 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 a=
n
> engineering one. =C2=A0Its accuracy is negligible)
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
