http://blog.cpinto.net/2009/04/real-cloud-computing.html "The cloud computing concept nowadays breaks down in two major camps"
That's wrong, Celso. Cloud computing is a number of trends (it's a trend) related to pushing computing resources (any kind; hardware, software, data) further into the network (internet; the wild). That said, with GAE you just push software into the wild, one third of what cloud computing is. "Yeah, this new wave of cloud computing experts/consultants are just glorified sysops" Now that's rather stupid to say, since mostly "glorified" sysops are (still) afraid of most security responses, division and threats related to cloud computing. It's hard to manage things in the wild, were you don't have that much control, and every "glorified sysops" wants system control, end-to-end. Your vision of cloud computing is only for software, fair enough, but before that, hardware must be in place and some things need to be changed - heck! people are using private cloud computing as the new and real "intranet". What's really happening is that datacenters moved from physical to virtual, to now running on the network - where ever that is. So, the "glorified sysops" are rather amused to see that changing so fast. For me, this cloud computing advent is the virtual machines done right, so that glorified code monkeys could easily put their chunks of software into this new abstraction layer and run their own version of SaaS 2.0. //VD _______________________________________________ tce mailing list tce@lists.paradigma.pt http://lists.paradigma.pt/mailman/listinfo/tce
