vivster said:
There is no clear definition of "cloud". It's a marketing term that gets used differently from company to company. In the broadest sense cloud is nothing more than a server(or server farm) connected to the internet. The purpose of that server is defined by whoever uses it. It's a stupid term and I don't know anyone in IT who has the slightest appreciation for it as it is just a buzzword for a thing that literally existed since the beginning of the internet. The FTP server I have at home is as much a cloud as a high end server farm for distributed computing. |
True. Dedicated servers are however generally understood to be used for exclusive tasks, while the Azure platform is shared between lots of companies and lots of purposes.