30 Jan 09
DLD 09 – Cloud Computing
DLD featured an interesting panel on the future of cloud computing. Below you can see my live-notes.
Marissa Mayer, Google
Werner Vogel, Amazon
Russ Daniels, HP
Moderator: Spencer Reiss, Wired
- Classic cloud computing: Bittorent, governments unable to stop them. Users are reliant on clouds.
- does it matter where data is located? Vogel: yes, customers need to know where data is stored
- Mayer: It’s not clear where the cloud really is – is it where the data is stored? where the data lives etc. ?
- We use cloud computing every day -> where is the next frontier? where will we add more stuff to the cloud?
- technology takes more responsibility
- cloud is a great way to build software, why risk a lot of downtime using traditional server infrastructure
- what are the unique capabilities? Scalability, redundancy
- It is unlikely to be true that only a few companies operate huge data centres -> but clouds are great places to solve enterprise application processes, supply chain management
- no more islands of data? example: putting data into the car, not so easy -> different contact informations (outlook, Gmail etc.) but there is no URL for contact information. Needs all to come from one place.
- interesting market for niche operators in aggregating information to the cloud
- back cycles used to do highly complex and sensitive computations, such as protein simulations etc.
- device integration will be the main determining factor for cloud computing success
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