Re: Backup to cloud?

From: J.O. Aho <user_at_example.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:06:57 +0100
Message-ID: <ebcgdhFame3U1_at_mid.individual.net>


On 12/14/2016 05:08 AM, Rhino wrote:

> On 2016-12-13 2:08 PM, Lew Pitcher wrote:

>> On Tuesday December 13 2016 13:37, in comp.databases.mysql, "Rhino"
>> <no_offline_contact_at_example.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I know of The Cloud
>>
>> You write "the cloud" as if it were a single, tangable thing.
>> It's not. "The cloud" refers to services hosted on systems accessable
>> through
>> a network; typically, Internet-accessable services, but not necessarily.
>>
> Fair enough. As I tried to imply, I have only a sketchy conceptual > knowledge of "the Cloud" and even that might be an overstatement.

"the Cloud" ain't usually anything else than "public" services running on a virtual machine. Just think of it as a normal server and the mystery cloud should disappear.

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 //Aho
Received on Wed Dec 14 2016 - 10:06:57 CET

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