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: Back in 1961, Stanford’s Professor John McCarthy, delivering a speech at MIT’s Centennial, talked about the future of computing as a “public utility”. Cloud Computing comes as close to making computing a public utility as any services before. Getting what you need and paying only for that, is a powerful proposition, yet those basic problems of computing, such as privacy, security, safeguarding, and paying remain elusive. To garner the anticipated economic benefits of cloud computing models, PayPal takes a giant step forward for payments in a public cloud with their “Adaptive Payment Solution”. Earlier this year, PayPal hosted PayPal X Innovate [...] Verizon Eats Its Own Clouds Verizon’s cited 400% performance improvement and cost reduction of 66% for their IT was achieved through virtualization, consolidation and outsourcing (in particular in their [...] TM Forum announced the formation of an ecosystem of major industry players in the emerging cloud services sector. The centerpiece of this effort is the creation of the Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council (ECBC) whose goal is to understand the needs of the largest global cloud buyers and ensure any impediments to the uptake of cloud technology are removed. Together with key service and technology suppliers, the ecosystem will initiate a range of programs designed to remove barriers to the growth of commercial cloud services. Among the enterprise buyers joining this effort are Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Deutsche Bank. “Cloud computing has the potential to [...] Intel’s Software Tools group has announced a cloud-based “scalability service.” The Intel Parallel Universe Portal is an on-demand cloud-computing analysis tool that tests 32-bit Windows-based parallel applications. The service lets software developers assess how their applications will perform on a number of multicore processor configurations — 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 hardware threads — without having large multicore systems in-house. Essentially, what Intel has done is reuse in the cloud the technology currently being used by its Parallel Amplifier tool (part of the Parallel Studio tool suite), which is designed to find multicore performance bottlenecks. The results of the [...] Despite the huge changes in technology, the debate over Cloud would have been remarkably similar 20 years ago. The proponent would have said that current technologies have years of investment and billions of dollars on their side and that the challenger is too risky, too unproven, too lightweight. It would be foolhardy to open up access to corporate data or to give so many people access to so much computing power. No sensible company would allow it. The opposition would have said that the opportunities far outweighed the risk, that we stand at the beginning of a new era of technological [...] Information technology is currently being transformed by two trends: Cloud Computing and Web 3.0. Cloud computing is comprised of a set of strategies, approaches, and technologies related to innovative methods of infrastructure utilization. Web 3.0 applications are enabling users to use rich media more effectively and to assemble mash-ups of applications that meet their individual needs. One can benefit from taking an integrated and continuous view of these technologies: An integrated approach to assessing the user needs and cost considerations of Cloud Computing and Web 3.0 technologies can create growth and enable organizations to scale more effectively [...] SLAs and security go together; each is meaningless without the other. As the cloud computing market matures, vendors will differentiate themselves by the security features (and other SLA details) they provide. The spectacular failure of Sidekick/Microsoft-Danger; Amazon and Google’s outages; and the shrug-and-grin policy of Yahoo! are all examples of cloud FAILs due to weak or non-existent SLAs. Referencing existing (i.e., pre-cloud and non-cloud) standards for security, auditability, data retention and destruction, reliability, availability, etc., is an unambiguous way of specifying exactly what the vendor will provide and exactly what the consumer can expect. If you are a provider or consumer, what standards would we want in the SLAs? Here are [...] |
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