Is it just me or this article is built on the fact that "cloud" has a very vague definition?

If I try to anchor the information in the article onto the real world, I got this: the combination of a magic usb key and a compatible switch gives us a fully automated installation system, complete with PXE boot-over-network and remote OS/software installation and configuring.

But I'm only guessing, because this article lacks technical details, don't you think?

I think the "private cloud" concept can be restated as "Big blob of semi-automatically-managed computing resources onto which diverse applications can be easily deployed."

They're basically giving you a way to easily bootstrap your own little EC2 zone.

This is genius. I'm going to start putting an nginx installer on usb drives and sell them as full fledged web servers.

(Incoming downvotes...but really, this is silly)

The guy who created this has great cred, but geez, this is gimmicky as hell! Hardly something to be taken seriously in the large enterprise datacenter.

We're going to look back with fondness to the days when USB sticks only carried passive viruses that required a vulnerable Windows computer to activate. Now they can carry dataloggers, sniffers, active attacks, ...

Stuxnet on steroids. :-O

I'll hold off until they implement a cloud in Javascript.

Does the whole "onto usb stick" really mean much these days? I'd hope you could get a software stack onto 8 (16, 32, ...) GB of storage.

Also, that article is quite light on details (as has already been stated)