<OT> clouds

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 23:21, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 19:57, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 17:48, compdoc wrote:
>>> What do you ppl use a private cloud for that's useful? File storage?
>>> Spreadsheets?
>>>
>>> I once tried a little package that ran a small OS and gave you a
>>> desktop,
>>> but it was slow and never used.
>>
>> Let me answer with a question.
>> What is the difference between a private cloud and a virtualization
>> cluster? I'd say, no difference at all, they are exactly the same. You
>> could run anything in the cloud, public or private.
>>
>
> Does you virtualization host let you scale from a 20-hits-per-day
> website to 20,000 hits per hour with no prior knowledge and no lost
> connections? And you only pay for the resources used when they are
> being used?

That would be the difference between a public and a private cloud.