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[Robert Hudson]

To me, cloud simply signifies that a layer of abstraction exists between
the infrastructure and the application as the user sees it.
On 28/02/2015 11:00 AM, "Noel Butler" <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:

>  On 28/02/2015 08:43, Shaun McGuane wrote:
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> To clear up confusion from PaulC – RackCentral is not a web hosting
> provider, we sell colocation
> and cloud services – we have customers who are web hosting providers and I
> know
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> Ummm, "cloud" is exactly that - hosting anyting on the
> internet/web/whatever
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> 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.
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> 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.
>
> shutting now as showing my age :)
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