The “private cloud” is a popular phrase in IT these days, but often a meaningless one, with tech vendors slapping the label on any old product that happens to make an existing IT function slightly more efficient.
Logically, a private cloud should act just like a public cloud service – such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud – but exist entirely within an enterprise’s firewall. Few “private cloud” products actually recreate the functionality of a public cloud, but a new contender in the market called “Nimbula” has a product that, at the very least, can be called a private cloud without causing eyes to roll.
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