Cloud-in-a-Box

There has been a lot of recent news about pre-packaged cloud solutions. Whether it’s from established companies like Dell, or from new startups like Nebula, these appliance-based solutions promise an easy way for enterprises to adopt and deploy cloud solutions both within their architecture and using a hybrid approach (internal and external).

This approach is only made possible by the standardization of cloud architectures. Although some like David Linthicum would argue that a shortage of clou...