Cloud computing podcast
Gary Orenstein has published a podcast of a discussion we had a couple of weeks ago about cloud computing.
Cloudy days on the hype cycle
Cloud computing and storage is still climbing the hype cycle. Remember client-server computing? It was going to change the world. It did, but not as we expected. Now it is an invisible part of the infosphere.
Likewise cloud computing. It is another arrow in the quiver, not a howitzer. The critical issue is how creatively and transparently we utilize it. No doubt many of us will be surprised.
In 15 years cloud computing will be as obvious to users as client-server is today.
The StorageMojo take
The podcast discusses other issues in cloud computing and storage. Kudos to Gary for putting on the cloud computing series.
Comments welcome, of course. I’ve done work Gary’s employer, Gear6, in the past. This discussion was conducted gratis.
on June 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I dont know about transparency. Why would users worry about a transparent cloud? why would they care about where or how, inside the cloud, their data gets stored, as long as there is a convenient and reliable way to access it? Not requiring to control, on the users’ part, the location and format is one of the things why cloud is being hyped.
on July 7th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Robin - topical podcast with Gary. Interesting thoughts about the global100 wanting to roll their own clouds. And you nailed 2 key reasons
1) Security, privacy: The cloud storage model presents key cost advantages, but some of the data one wants it in a private cloud, not outside the company firewall
2)All storage clouds don’t need to be the same. It is easy to tune individual nodes in the cloud - CPU, memory, no of disk drives, type and size of disk drives, so that the cloud can be tuned for various applications - streaming video, vs deep document archives with very “cold” data.
Like Parascale, I am sure there will be many options for customers in the near future, in software and technology to enable enterprises and service providers to tune storage clouds for different kinds of applications.
Sajai Krishnan
CEO, Parascale