The Advent of the Privileged Cloud

By Michael Halperin, Vice President, Managed Services


What’s in a name? Well, it could be a lot. In fact, the name we assign something can have a huge impact on our perception of that thing. Would you eat reconstituted chicken parts? Thanks to whomever decided to call that a “nugget” you might.

On the other hand, sometimes we come up with a name for something that makes a great idea seem much less great. Remember New Coke? It registered quite well on blind taste tests. The problem was nobody thought there was a problem with the old Coke, and New Coke became the Edsel of the soft drink industry.

Today, one such unfortunate (and inaccurate) word choice seems to be holding back adoption of cloud computing. That term is “Public Cloud.”

The idea of the public cloud actually pretty well describes some cloud providers, especially some of the early pioneers in the industry. These were open environments that allowed virtually anybody and everybody to access the resource and use it as they saw fit (often for free). While that free-for-all approach was part of the cloud’s early appeal, it also created a perception issue.

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