|
|
The company envisages that cloud and so-called private cloud services can be used in a mix and match manner, especially where demand is subject to significant fluctuation.
'Private cloud' is a term being increasingly used to describe the use of cloud-style technologies in organisations' own data centres. 'Cloud' is a misnomer in this context, as you know where an in-house application is running or where data is stored if they are on your own systems.
The whole point of the cloud metaphor is that it is opaque - you know the application and data are somewhere in the cloud, but you have no way of telling where - nor do you care, unless (for example) there is some reason why it cannot be offshore.
