Comments on: No real private clouds yet? http://cloudenterprise.info/2009/01/16/no-real-private-clouds-yet/ Cloud Computing and SaaS for the Enterprise Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rational Survivability » Private Clouds: Your Definition Sucks http://cloudenterprise.info/2009/01/16/no-real-private-clouds-yet/#comment-342 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:24:08 +0000 http://cloudenterprise.info/?p=182#comment-342 [...] in which he referenced and lauded Dimitry Sotnikov’s blog of the same titled “No Real Private Clouds Yet?“ I continue to scratch my head not because of David’s statements that he’s yet [...]

]]> By: Dmitry Sotnikov http://cloudenterprise.info/2009/01/16/no-real-private-clouds-yet/#comment-94 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:16:23 +0000 http://cloudenterprise.info/?p=182#comment-94 Karl,

There’s definitely some terminology confusion here. What you are talking about is a datacenter vendor (in your case, AT&T), leasing to you a part of their datacenter and probably setting up VPN or something to make it appear as part of your network.

What I mean by private cloud is a completely different thing:

I am talking about companies wanting to use the hardware they have in their own datacenter and put some kind of “cloud OS” on top of that so their can have the flexibility and scalability that Amazon and other are getting but within their physical network under their control.

There’s a lot of the former – but not so much of the latter yet.

Dmitry

]]> By: karl prosser http://cloudenterprise.info/2009/01/16/no-real-private-clouds-yet/#comment-92 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:55:23 +0000 http://cloudenterprise.info/?p=182#comment-92 AT&T and the like can easily do fully private clouds on an NPLS network with total virtualized everything from server farms to firewalls.

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