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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/22/2013 03:07 PM, Richard Vickery
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<div dir="ltr">...and I think the term "most people" refers to the
vast majority who are not lawyers nor accountants. These
professionals might need their stuff saved on their own
machines, or external drives. Of course, does a private cloud
need to be on the internet?</div>
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The "private Cloud" <i>could</i> be the equivalent of one-day
rented offices. We have a number of firms in the United States, who
rent out professional-looking offices and conference rooms to small
businesses who are basically running out of the owner's residence
but want to meet clients in a setting that makes the client a little
more comfortable. You can even hire someone, for 1 USD/day, to
answer your telephone and pretend to be your dedicated
secretary/receptionist. A shared or semi-dedicated private cloud
would be an extension of this concept. Web hosting services already
follow this model: shared server, semi-dedicated server, virtual
private server, or fully dedicated server. You can envision private
Cloud services offering similar tiers of service.<br>
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I imagine that the subscription fees would be stiff, though the
traffic would probably not bear any more than the equivalent of
buying a new minitower and laptop every three years.<br>
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This "private cloud" would be on the Internet, but use the technique
known as Virtual Private Networking. In short, several levels of
security that the public Internet normally does not see.<br>
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Still, someone could still crack into such a cluster, and I know
some people who will never trust a Cloud, public <i>or</i> private,
with their "stuff." This "stuff" would be of a frankly subversive
nature--or so some government officials might regard it.<br>
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Temlakos<br>
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