Joined at the metadataphysical hip ...... the twin towers of future anonymous lead*?
"The difference between virtualisation and private cloud is that one provides the means to achieve the other – but it is not quite so simple." ..... Alan Stevens.
Not quite so simple indeed, Alan, but the differences between virtualisation and private cloud* are negligible although the means to achieve both is a extremely lucrative mine field of many smartly guarded explosive possibilities, given the awesome fab power that controls absolute command in their fields of engagement and operation.
* A pleasant change from the present flash suited elitist global rapists plunder of dodgy, easily compromised and cheaply bought and poorly configured admin systems.
Do not misunderestimate any aspect of Cloud and Virtualisation for IT is made more Real than ever you previously thought and/or imagined possible by Cloud Apps and Virtualised Intellectual Property Administration/Deep Packet Information Penetration with Advanced Intellligence Supply , and made more real than even that, by further surreal and stealthy sensitive developments with LOVERS** in Magical Mystery Turing AI Programs and Digital Pogroms/Binary Purges of Conflict Infested Mites and Self Serving Paranoid and Psychotic Bytes
** Live Operational Virtual Environment Research Scientists into Colossal Enigma Variations of a Grand String of Great Game Threads.