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Remember pets and cattle? CERN's 2012 metaphor to describe on-premises servers you name and care for lavishly versus virtualized cloud servers you never name, run in a herd and kill without a second's thought? Well the metaphor's evolved: VMware and Pivotal are now talking about "McMansions" and "hotels" to explain how they …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Server Names

    Yeah we do treat them like pets and kids.

    Thats why I named my son SVR-SQL-LON-01 and my dog SVR-PROXY-NYC-01.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    The perils of thinking by metaphor

    The first time I heard the "Pets or Cattle" comment, my reaction was "How many farmers does this person actually know?".

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Does that make Azure...

    The Gates Motel...?

    You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave

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    1. quxinot
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      Re: Does that make Azure...

      ^ Bates motel is probably more appropriate.

      Though I gave a thumbs up for the idea. :D

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