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> "You" as in "the organisation as a whole" don't get elasticity. "You" as in "your department" or "you as an individual" do get elasticity.

Right, but to the degree that you get elasticity, it starts to look more and more like "someone else's computer", no? If multiple people/departments/etc are provisioning virtual instances on one shared cloud infra, with nobody who's using the provisioning API caring about the underlying capacity (and capacity is planned indirectly by forecasting, etc), then it really starts to sound like "someone else's computer" to me. That "someone else" just happens to be another org within the same company.




Yes, that is why we talk about it as a private cloud -- it looks almost exactly like a public cloud to the people actually using it.


So in other words, “Someone else’s datacenter” continues to be a perfect description of what Cloud is.


As long as everyone has a shared understanding of what "someone else's" means, which this thread shows people don't.




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