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private clouds

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Revenge of the Private Cloud

By dlambert ⋅ July 15, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Back in February, amidst the news about Microsoft‘s new Azure platform, I asked why the concept of Private Clouds seemed to be either dismissed or ignored as a viable Enterprise strategy (see also “PDC Reactions” and “Could Azure be self-hosted?“). Yesterday, I learned that there’s hope, after all. I happened to be in the office [...]

What, exactly, is wrong with “Private Clouds”?

By dlambert ⋅ February 2, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Image via Wikipedia I recently saw an interesting post by Gordon Haff that claims that cloud computing concepts can’t really be applied to enterprises smaller in scale than the Googles, Microsofts, and Amazons of the world. Humbug, I say.  I certainly didn’t have that impression when I learned about Azure. I’ll concede that there aren’t [...]

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