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by Spivak 1795 days ago
Logical isolation of resources instead of physical and virtualized compute, networking, and storage.

“Virtualized racks” doesn’t make a whole lot of sense since the metaphor is lost. You don’t think of power, top of rack space how many U’s some resource will take.

If you hate the word “cloud” then IaaS might make for a better name.