[153551] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Configuration Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Fri Jun 8 10:45:05 2012
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:44:07 -0600
In-Reply-To: <A01CAAB2-72F5-42A8-9014-EC298A001DB3@delong.com>
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thursday, 07 June, 2012 12:52, Owen DeLong observed:
> This is a hard problem to solve. Not the least of the difficulties is
> the fact that if you ask 50 engineers to define "Cloud", you will get
> at least 100 definitions many of which are incompatible to the point
> of mutually exclusive.
That is *the* definition of "Cloud". The term "Cloud" is a proxy for the e=
xpression "under the exclusive control of a third-party over which we have =
no influence nor control in order to gain plausibile denibility and CYA pto=
tection if something bad happens".
Eg:
Store you data "in the cloud".
Run a server "in the cloud".
Put your e-mail "in the cloud".
Run your application "in the cloud".
See, 100% accurate!
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