Could potentially sell like hotcakes in Europe if they play the NSA-angle.
I can also envision a very sweet secondary market (partner with an open source ERP for example)
They need a copy editor. That's a very awkwardly worded sentence.
Further, many institutions and corporations are organized in such a way that they function as a number of smaller groups contracting resources from a central IT provider, and in this configuration, a private cloud can be an immensely useful way to divvy up resources without having to work out down to the physical machine who owns what.
We could argue they're not the same thing but according to this definition it's a private cloud.
It appears to have a wifi antenna— can it manage a corporate wifi deployment, with RADIUS or whatever? What about LDAP? Samba shares?
Can it supply an email/webmail service which I won't have to spend all day setting up?
For the stuff configured through these fancy visual tools, I assume there's a sane and secure way to back up my config and data offsite, and do a quick restore in case of failure/loss of the hardware.
- clean
- does not require rackspace in your datacenter
- does not require your IT group to deploy it
- does not take up machines that your QA group wanted to use
- and is a known hardware, network and OS configuration so that the documentation is useful.
When you want to set up for sandbox/alpha/qa/beta/prod, you go through your IT or cloud procedures first.
Lord have mercy on the poor business person trying to understand the value.
