As with all other Jargons and Buzzwords people realize only later that they have been doing this for years before it was formalized and a Buzzword was created. Believe me We all have been cloud computing for years without even knowing about it.
I used to work for an organization where we had a software installation and license client kit on each and every workstation. This client kit was controlled from a central location. Any new software required by any employee had to be done through this kit. This I believe in a classic example of Software as A Service layer of Cloud Computing.
Now coming back to Unconference: I unlearned that there are basically 4 Types of cloud
1) Public
2) Private
3) Community
4) Hybrid
More information about these clouds can be found here. These clouds can provide services independently or can converge to provide a more meaning full and custom service.
Although the cloud computing concept can be used in many different aspects but its most commonly used in consolidation of data centers or networks. According to Google
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As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of interest no longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a warehouse full of computers.
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Google has just released a white paper on Warehouse scale Computing which is pretty interesting and a must read.
This unconference was really informative and provided more insight on this relatively new topic which ironically we have been doing years ( Just kidding). However I still have a question which remains unanswered till now.
Can the holistic view of Cloud Computing be of a pyramid structure rather than plain horizontal layer ?
What I mean by this is , when we talk about scalability one layer has to be "theoretically" more scalable then the layer above it. Please let me know your thoughts on this.
pardon my spelling of perl, but spellcheck is to be blamed for this :-)
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