Eh, it’s a bit more than that. I work on a private cloud, the implications of it being a cloud versus traditional bare metal or virtualization platforms are around the APIs, quick spin up/down cycles, fully integrated recovery, imaging and remote console systems, integration with automated deployment platforms and others. It’s not just a buzz word.
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blahsay@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m going to blow your mind here…the ‘cloud’ is just two or three data centres with replication turned on. It’s mostly a buzz word to charge a bit more
Vash63@lemmy.world 11 months ago
blahsay@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Most of that’s on any half decent commercial server. You’re right there’s definitely some differences though.
I actually worked on our corporate move from private servers (main, backup and dr) to Azure cloud which had the only two server locations (melb and Sydney) and the mythology around cloud seemed a bit much
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Charging more for cloud? As if apple is not finding an excuse to charge even more for their overpriced stuff.
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Wait, so you mean it’s not actual rain clouds in the sky??
blahsay@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They looked into it but apparently no