The rise of specialized private clouds [Video]

For years, private clouds pushed traditional on-prem hardware. Will the recent move towards specialized private clouds, especially for AI, be different?

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I have always been suspicious of the “private cloud.” I get why the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) included the term in the description of cloud computing almost 17 years ago, however, it was quickly taken as a way to bundle agenting on-prem server offerings to be sold as a “cloud.”

The early private clouds were nothing like a cloud. They could not scale on demand or automatically, and self-provisioning was impossible. Clearly, this was “marketecture” and most enterprises avoided it. Of course, there were other private clouds to be had, such as open source OpenStack, which is still around today. OpenStack is much better than when I first experienced it, when it was more like an engineering project than an installation.

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