Internal v. External/Private v. Public/On-Premise v. Off- Premise: It’s all Cloud But How You Get There Is Important.

Cloud Computing will simply become ubiquitous in it’s many forms and we are all going to end up with a hybrid model of Cloud adoption. Virtualization platform providers will no longer make a distinction in terms of roadmap and product positioning between internal/external or public/private. The notion of storage is going to be turned on its head; the commodity of bit buckets isn’t what storage means in the Cloud. We’ll see the evolution of hosting/colocation providers add dynamic scalability and utility billing and really push the Cloud mantra.”]

Source: https://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2009/02/internal-v-externalprivate-v-publiconpremise-v-off-premise-its-all-cloud-but-how-you-get-there-is-im.html