Just as we are trying to think through the architecture of clouds, others are trying to develop a Taxonomy. We found this discussion on alltop.com. Of course this plays directly into the Semantics section of the survey we are running now (see below if you haven’t participated yet).
You might be interested not only in the brief article on a meeting in California to discuss Cloud Taxonomy (not too successful it sounds like), but more interested in the comments to the post which go to the point of trying to create standards too early in a new market.
Do note:
(1) Big players can push smaller players to use their specifications as de facto standards (that’s the story of the Windows market or of Walmart, as one commentator remarks), but that isn’t necessarily good for users.
(2) In a web-based community, where much of the ultimate use of the platform and its evolution will be determined by users and their own activities, great user interfaces may be the most important standard.
(3) Our survey asked users whether they would demand that clouds be interoperable. We think that it is unlikely that any one user or organization will be able to get all the services it wants from a single cloud. That cries out for being able to interconnect clouds easily and use services across clouds. Will we get that? Not easily I think.
Lots to think about.
- - - - - - - - - -
We are running a survey on Cloud Computing.
Join the fun by clicking here
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=rv2UloiI01rprHf6javzug_3d_3d
and answering the questions.
We'll comment on the collected wisdom and send our comments back to you.
- - - - - - - - -
Please check out the dome model at http://cloudonomic.blogspot.com
Posted by: Tony Shan | March 06, 2009 at 03:41 PM