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<p>On 28/02/2015 08:43, Shaun McGuane wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">To clear up confusion from PaulC – RackCentral is not a web hosting provider, we sell colocation<br /> and cloud services – we have customers who are web hosting providers and I know </span></p>
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<p>Ummm, "cloud" is exactly that - hosting anyting on the internet/web/whatever</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12px;">its a false marketing ploy to call what they want to refer to as the cloud today, because its sounds cool the clueless - anything hosted on the internet is a "cloud" service, so yes, anyone doing webhosting for past 25 years has been providing a "cloud" service.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12px;">The term cloud came about from the old telco days with images indicating something was "off-network", it aint new (despite what more recent marketing depts want to think), having remote drive systems, aint new either, we were doing that 15-20 years ago too.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12px;">shutting now as showing my age :)</span></p>
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