[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/21/2021 12:31 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/21/21 11:45 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 12/21/2021 8:38 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> No, I seriously believe all this cloud crap is a really bad idea.

>> Uhh ... Bill ...
>>
>> WE AIN'T TALKING ABOUT "CLOUD" !!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Sorry Dave.  When it leaves your control and goes to someone else's
> it all looks like cloud to me.

Not everything external is cloud. Being cloud requires some scalability
and location fuzziness to qualify.

A sufficiently large hosting facility could have been called
LaaS (Location as a Service) cloud, but by convention it is not.

                    env        HW+hypervisor  OS+platform  SW
traditional        customer   customer       customer     customer
hosting facility   provider   customer       customer     customer
IaaS cloud         provider   provider       customer     customer
PaaS/FaaS cloud    provider   provider       provider     customer
SaaS cloud         provider   provider       provider     provider

Arne