[pedalpete]

"Canonical engineers will deliver an Orange Box to your office, that is yours for two weeks for $10,000 plus travel and accommodation" This statement had me thinking... weird, ok, what's the Orange Box, but then it got even stranger below... the orange box is a "complete mobile cluster and an easy, low-risk way to deploy OpenStack cloud infrastructure on your premises". If it's cloud, why do I need it on my premises? Isn't the whole point that it exists... you know... in the cloud??

[skywhopper]

Cloud technology, specifically abstracting away physical machines and storage locations and allowing applications to gracefully scale their resource demand up and down based on rules and monitoring are useful to any large IT shop, regardless of the location or ownership of the datacenter.

Further, many institutions and corporations are organized in such a way that they function as a number of smaller groups contracting resources from a central IT provider, and in this configuration, a private cloud can be an immensely useful way to divvy up resources without having to work out down to the physical machine who owns what.

[morsch]

Here's an article about the orange box: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/hands-...

[ayrx]

I'm assuming this is targeted at organizations wanting to run their own private cloud, not the typical small startup that consumes cloud resources from a player like Amazon, Google or Microsoft.

[ownagefool]

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145...

We could argue they're not the same thing but according to this definition it's a private cloud.