Private Cloud

Microsoft is marketing the private cloud as the new corporate solution.

Think of it as cloud meals: you fired your kitchen staff to switch to salads from any caterer, appetizers from any caterer.  Now Microsoft will not just cater to you, they will, uh, set back up that  kitchen you dismantled - with catering called in as needed ...

Or are they marketing "dry water" at a time when aquaduct infrastructure is looking suspect ... will there soon be a new dry water tank up atop the IT shop?  Remember the water-cooled M/F - was that water outa the cloud or the main?  Did IBM bring out a dowser before that TOS/360 went behind the glass?  A ribbon-cutting or a rain-dance?

The private cloud.  Wasn't there a Joe Capp comics character with one of those?  Ah, yes, Joe Btfsplk.  Next someone will offer private vapourware.  Very steam punk.  Just don't let someone tell you that's fog - that's your shared cloud on the road ahead.