The only people who have come closes to knowing what The Cloud is are marketing people ... Developers are at the other end of that spectrum... On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Tech List Kenya <techlistkenya@gmail.com>wrote:
Thank you everyone for the answering my question. It's funny that I am still not getting the practical relationship to the dictionary definitions being given
I kinda want to tie the dictionary definition to real life. For instance, how does the user provision a service in real-life? Unless I'm mistaken, it's still the IT that will manage the access and use of the cloud service. Take google apps, for example. In as much as it is a public cloud service, an administrator has to create a user for that user to access the services.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:20 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Techlist.
When you think about it, what is the difference between Virtualisation and Cloud?
Cloud has to have some form of automation such that the end user can provision a service (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) by themselves typically form a portal. So virtualization creates a pool of resources:- compute, storage, switching e.t.c that can be provisioned. Cloud automates the provisioning.
A private cloud is for in house consumption such that an organization's departments can log into a portal and provision a service they need. Public cloud is for external consumption typically resale e.g. Amazon web services, angani, cloudhop e.t.c. Hybrid cloud is a mix of the two. With inbuilt security features to separate them.
Regards, J Doe.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Thuo Wilson <lixton@gmail.com> wrote:
I always fancy the way maganers/marketers/CEOs etc hype the "cloud" thing - you might think its something new you dont know of. Heavy jargons. At first when i heard bosses mention cloud after visiting seminars and exhibitions abroad, left me salivating and wanting to know what i have been missing in the cloud.
Whether private (that cloud over your head and house) or public (that which rains outside) - its a cloud and didnt come yesterday. Started long way back, just jargons and some flavours added as a marketing gimmick.
Kind Regards, Wilson./
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