I also find it dishertening. My thoughts are that marketers have been let on the rampage, been told there is this new thing and you need to sell it like ctazy.

Personally, i signed up to rackspace cloud two weeks ago, before that was the amazon free tier that i guess qualifies as cloud, but before then and as far back as bernard says, its been an iteration of what could technically qualify as cloud. Linode VPS for instance... So every time someone asks me about this cloud thing, and if it will make them more powerful and up to date in IT, i say yes it will, not because it actually will but because they wont take it any other way. its either they are wrong or i just dont know how good cloud is, its even on TV!.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
@Phares, noob question:- So Safcom are not going to offer VPS on their "cloud"? Na vile I was running my hands in glee :-(



On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
I first heard the term 'internal cloud' from one of our customers.
Upon probing on what exactly he meant, it was explained to me that he
was talking of virtualizing infrastructure... Basically, if you run
VMware/Hyper-V/Citrix-XenServer you run an 'internal cloud'. The term
is now being loosely used.

What saddens me though is when people assume that all 'clouds' are
equal. e.g. When Safaricom announced their cloud, many assumed that
you could do *everything* not realizing that it's limited to
Infrastructure as a Service. It's unfortunate though :-(.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
> @bernard - You hit it right and just got the words out of me, I have
> no idea while that board makes noise about what we have having for all
> this long, maybe they really need to quote you and all the others who
> have done alot in the cloud since way back!
>
> ./Ok3ch
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Airline reservation system has been run on a shared system since the
>> 1970s . Marketers basically needed to sell the cloud, after achieving
>> success with 4G
>>
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