Everybody has a cloud! We want OUR cloud!

So the title says it all. We are up for building our own private cloud. It's not that we want to sell hosting services... mmm... we could... nah, let's keep it academic for now. The idea is to experience the challenges of building and managing a private cloud (and what a challenge it will be given the hardware we have!). Hopefully, we'll learn as well what features are missing, what is a cloud useful for, and how can we contribute to the evolution of cloud computing.

The sole purpose of this blog is to document our adventure. We'll post some info on the infrastructure we have available (tiny one as of now), what software stacks we try and the like.

Stay tuned.

EDIT:
Just to make it clear what we are talking about, here's a definition of private cloud by IBM:
Private Clouds - activities and functions are provided "as a service," over a company's intranet. It is built by an organization for its own users, and everything is delivered within the organization's firewall (instead of the Internet). The private cloud owner does not share resources with any other companies, so multitenancy is not an issue. Also called an "internal cloud."