Private Cloud

I’ve always argued it was an oxymoron, but Tim Bray has a better quote:

This whole “Private Cloud” notion is a conspiracy between CIOs who think they can do a better job securing data than professional shared-services operators (uh huh), and systems vendors who love the idea of selling enterprises way more hardware than they’ll ever need at one time, so they have the heavyweight infrastructure you need to support lightweight deployment.

He’s right. Not an oxymoron, just a way to get you to spend more money for less.

Stick with the regular cloud…