When Is a Cloud Not a Cloud? 
Rackspace this week joined the ranks of those companies offering virtual machines that are hosted on a pool of dedicated servers. What’s curious, however, is that Rackspace refers to these setups as private clouds, yet lists them under its managed hosting offerings, not its cloud hosting products. Such a move once again raises the question of what, exactly, is meant by “cloud computing.” If Rackspace’s Private Cloud offering is, indeed, a cloud offering, why does it [...]
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Derrick Harris
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