Comment Re: It isn't cheap, nor is it easy. (Score 1) 56
You have private clouds confused with public cloud offerings. You are thinking about a private cloud, not an IaaS public cloud. If you have the funds and resources, then by all means, build yourself a private cloud using VMware, XenServer or KVM. A public cloud offering IaaS product involves offering a web portal for your clients to build their own VMs ... like what Linode, Rackspace, etc. offer. If you are really concerned about latency then a private cloud would be the best solution. If you are using an application in a public cloud that is sensitive to latency, then I suggest you seriously re-evaluate your solution.