Yet another definition of what Cloud is
I was responding to a blog post this morning relating how Matt Mullenweg, The founder of WordPress, recently stated that open source on leased servers was superior to Cloud. My mind reeled at the assumptions in that statement, but mostly I was reminded how even the leading lights in the industry still don't understand what cloud computing is.
In the process of replying to the post, I realized that a more general definition of cloud might be what the industry and customers needed in order to promote useful discussion, instead of "my orange is better than your apple" (note the lower case on that!)
In my view Cloud is a way to aggregate demand for data center services run under a highly automated virtualization management framework in such a way that users enjoy economies of scale and best-of-breed IT experiences without having to build it for themselves.
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