[153544] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Configuration Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Jun 8 01:26:22 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAArzuosDFoUOFobU=c6CFk-4xEKJE4w9GUJ_6LZseOB5iRXFng@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:24:00 -0700
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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"
>=20
> 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". 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)
>=20
>=20
>=20
> --=20
> Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
