Hi Ken, 

I have a technical background but it sounds like not as technical (or in a different direction) as yours. And I think a lot of folks are still trying to determine what is and isn't an "internal" cloud. My understanding is that it includes virtualization and pooling of storage but also of I/O cycles and that it allows for rapid, on-demand, in many cases automatic reprovisioning of capabilities to higher-need applications (for example, a spike in processing at the end of the year or in response to a particular promotion). That reprovisioning ebbs and flows on application demand subject to certain criteria set up by IT. 

In other words, from what I've read from folks ranging from Cisco and HP to the Data.gov folks it's not just a new term for the same old storage pooling - it's both more comprehensive and more intelligent. But I do agree that there are a lot of folks slapping "cloud" in front of their offerings just as they slapped "I" or "e-" or "XML-based" or "compliance" in front of things in years past. It wouldn’t surprise me that the hot dog vendors in SF pitch their dogs as being cooked "in the cloud". :)

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