It's a good question. What's the difference between the CoLo and a Cloud is, look, a Cloud is a marketing word and all it really means is a data center or data outside your four walls. That's really all it means. So if you're in a Co-Location facility, is it outside your four walls? Yeah, technically it is.
So that's a cloud. In fact, we turn the marketing word. We'll use for that as private Cloud, right? Because it's now I own the cabinet. I own what's in the cabinet. I'm renting that space and the equipment in there is all mine. So that's private Cloud. If I look at Amazon, Microsoft, Azure, Google, that's public cloud.
I don't own their infrastructure. But I might be storing my data on Office 365. That'd be public Cloud. So it can still be private to me logically, but I'm sharing the server infrastructure with thousands of other companies and people, and I have no idea who they are. It's public Cloud and the security is being handled logically.
- July 5, 2024
