Re: Configuration Systems

[Joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 6/7/12 20:53 , Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> It is like that supreme court judge who defined porn as "i know it
> when I see it"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobellis_v._Ohio

a case which is notable in this context for having four differing
majority opinions.

> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Paul Graydon <paul () paulgraydon co uk> wrote:
> > Your original definition: "cloud" == "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)