What is public vs private clouds?
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Private cloud (also called internal cloud or corporate cloud) is a marketing term for a proprietary computing architecture that provides hosted services to a limited number of people behind a firewall.
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M$A Public Cloud which is the one most people are familiar with is of course the opposite of the Private Cloud, in that your information is shared with others on your cloud. This one is very popular with companies who want to get their information out there to others. Here is an informative video on the differences between a Private Cloud and a Public Cloud that I found on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcTnGAQJ7gE
http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/private_cloud/index.php?CMP=Google_private+cloud+public+cloud_exact
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