Maybe instead of cloud computing, we will have Wave Computing?
Google files patent for wave-powered floating data center | Green Tech – CNET News
Peter’s did it again! Peter has updated his cloud computing taxonomy. Check his site for continual updates as I am sure there will be additions as companies find that they are not on the list. 
Anand Ganesan from byteonic has written a good post on PaaS: The Platform as a Service (PaaS) Landscape, PaaS in the Enterprise.
Jeff Barr from Amazon just posted a AWS Security White Paper that’s ‘intended to answer customer questions such as “How does AWS help me ensure my data is secure?”;
This document provides an overview of security as it pertains to the following areas
relevant to AWS:
- Certifications and Accreditations
- Physical Security
- Backups
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Security
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Security
- Amazon SimpleDB Security
The Cloud Computing Expo 2009 East, to be held March 22-24, 2009, in New York City, announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies (see suggested topics below).
Merrill Lynch analysts estimate that by 2011 the volume of Cloud Computing market opportunity will amount to $160BN, including $95N in business and productivity apps (e-mail, office, CRM, etc.) and $65BN in online advertising.
Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The Cloud: submit your speaking proposal today!
Help with that transformation: submit your speaking proposal today.
Topics will include:
I asked a totally unrelated question on the Cloud Computing google group a few days ago and triggered a very active discussion on where “private” cloud is an oxymoron or not.
[ Please let me know if I am taking any of the quotes blow out of context. ]
Ben Yamin called “private cloud computing a paradoxical phenomenon” and Ray Nugent called it an “oxymoron.” But even Ray agrees that many of his customers are asking about it,
Correct me if I’m wrong but most, if not all, of what I’m hearing from customers is around how to take AWS like services and tuck them within the four walls of their enterprise to somehow get economies of scale, lower costs and quicker scale/customer service to their constituents. Therein lay the Foggy part…
Rich Wellner agrees that we should “not care so much what things are called as much as what they do,” so he explained that “private” clouds does exist based on the list of attributes he’s compiled:
1) Multiple vendors accessible through open standards and not centrally
administered2) Non-trivial QOS (see the gmail debate thread)
3) On demand provisioning
4) Virtualization
5) The ability for one company to use anothers resources (e.g. bobco
using ec2)6) Discoverability across multiple administrative domains (e.g. brokering to multiple cloud vendors)
7) Data storage
Per usage billing
9) Resource metering and basic analytics
10) Access to the data could me bandwidth/latency limitations, security,
11) Compliance – Architecture/implementation, Audit, verification
12) Policy based access – to data, applications and visibility
13) Security not only for data but also for applications
Now here we start to see some things that aren’t applicable to enterprise clouds (i.e. 1, 5, 6). But the bulk of the list still works. And it’s worth noting that EC2 fails on more than three of those things (i.e. 1, 11, 12, 13), but people don’t hesitate to allow them the use of the term cloud.
I think Jim Starkey from NimbusDB summed it up best,
As I understand it, if you use Amazon EC2, it is cloud computing. But if Amazon itself uses EC2, it’s only fog computing. Or maybe (shudder) internal cloud computing. This is, of course, utter nonsense.
Laurent Therond also brought up an interesting point,
Amazon and Google would love for external entities to cofinance their clouds, because they own the infrastructure *and* they actually use it to run their own affairs. On the other hand, if you were to offer them to migrate their mission critical systems to some other Cloud Computing vendor (let’s assume you could find one up to the task), they would laugh at you loudly.
I am quite happy to see this level of discussion on this. My stand on this is quite clear and explained here.