[ Cloud Computing ] Re: Cloud for Financial Sectors

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:53 PM, trimark <m_cathcart@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

If you take a row of servers, either build-your-own or buy something
like an IBM iDataPlex server or a DELL DCS build, and use it as a
cloud types environment into which you offer a range of applications
and images which can be provisioned dynamically and on-demand, is it a
cloud or not? If it is, then there are loads doing this in the
financial sector. If not, that perhaps you could help me understand
your definition of cloud computing.

That fits into my definition of a private cloud.  I think there's a lot of baggage around the cloud term bringing terms like "infinite scalability", and "instant disaster recovery" - not to mention the requisite magical hand-waving on how those will be achieved.  "cloud" is inherently a marketing term, and there's going to be overlap with existing terminology - just like we saw when clusters became grids (which are now becoming clouds).  I for one am not going to nitpick the terminologies and definitions, but focus instead on the functionality and performance.

Shane

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