How to make clouds interoperable and standard !!

December 12, 2008 / G C Network / Comments Off on How to make clouds interoperable and standard !!

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By G C Network | June 30, 2008

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By G C Network | June 27, 2008

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By G C Network | June 26, 2008

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By G C Network | June 25, 2008

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By G C Network | June 24, 2008

…… Second Cloud Center in China “IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the opening of new “cloud computing” centers in South Africa and China. Cloud computing enables the delivery of personal…

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By G C Network | June 23, 2008

Last week, Dataline (my company), in collaboration with IBM, Google, Northrop Grumman, Cisco and Great-Circle Technologies, launched an initiative aimed at integrating an end-to-end solution for secure cloud computing. Called…

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By G C Network | June 20, 2008

In The real value of Cloud Computing, ENKI hits on why cloud computing is disruptive. It’s the services stupid !! By separating enterprises from their servers and offering universal, secured,…

How Cloud Computing Works

By G C Network | June 19, 2008

Jonathan Strickland provides an excellent overview of cloud computing on the how stuff works website. Follow me at https://Twitter.com/Kevin_Jackson

This has been a huge part of my life over the past few weeks! This is my personal view.

WARNING: DON’T EXPECT THE ANSWER TO BE FOUND BELOW !!!

There are three basic approaches to this issue being aggressively discussed right now:

  • “Standards Body” Approach
  • “Adopt Proven Technology” Approach
  • “Customer Driven” Approach

All three approaches have value and all three have their problems, including:

  • Global agreement on standards could be a long process
  • “Proven Technology” may mean “Proprietary Technology”
  • Multiple industry customers could result in industry linked standards for cloud

So what is an embryonic industry to do? A hybrid of course !! Options include, but are not limited to:

  • Release all details of a selected “Proven Technology” to industry and adopt as a basis for an open standard
  • Embrace multiple standards each set optimized for industry ROI models
  • “Interoperability Rating “ issued after standards body technical review

(And we’ve only just begun)

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