Public cloud providers surprised a great deal of people when they came out with proprietary private clouds. (That’s where actual hardware and software support a subset of public cloud services.) I’m pretty sure they don’t like me to call them that, but that’s really what they are: public cloud analogs that run on premises. They allow enterprises to use them as a stepping stone to the public cloud, but they are more about marketing than technology.
Pretty much all the providers offer these cloud services—I mean “cloud” hardware and software that sits in somebody’s data center. Why are the public cloud providers selling these in the first place?
