[ Cloud Computing ] Re: cloud and user experience

Paul,

The fact is the "standard frameworks" haven't in their current incarnations
solved the tightly coupled application coding which exists today.

Ultra Modular Computing which is built on top of some well understood grid
architecture which will allow linear scaling while at the platform layer
will automatically handle in-memory object data, caching, map-reduce, async
persistence and web server services.

There are many platforms like force.com, Google App engine, LongJump which
have developed their own frameworks for breaking the affinities and provide
many levels of support, simplicity and scale.

The reason why adoption will be so fast is two-fold: 1)Because management
staff of businesses today are pressured to reduce all excessive expense in
order to recapitalize their balance sheets, firm up their credit and
becoming more efficient. This is going to mean all the server/storage
huggers will have to let go if they want any kind of bonus or even a job.

2)Because with a relatively small change in mindset you can accelerate the
ability to make IT transparent, allowing the business to concentrate on
developing the right tools to run the business.

Imagine taking your PONO, POJO and C++ classes and run them within
containers which manage security, provide access to a message queue,
in-memory data-grid and co-locate business logic together for enormous
scalability.

As far as fast how would you consider the move to virtualization, a much
more challenging justification but an enormous ROI.

-g

http://www.google.com/trends?q=vmware%2C+virtualization&ctab=0&geo=all&date=
all&sort=0

On 12/18/08 2:43 PM, "Paul Moxon" <paul@moxonsonline.com> wrote:

>
>
> "The world of IT and business on the web is about to get a whole lot
> faster."
>
> Can you quantify "about"? Within 1 year? 2 years? Or even 5 years?
>
> This is a sweeping statement that appears to be predicated on the emergence
> of standards within the cloud computing domain - and, hence, the evolution
> of standard frameworks. However, many other postings have said that you will
> be waiting a long time for these standards to take shape.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cloud-computing@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of swardley@mac.com
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:07 PM
> To: Cloud Computing
> Subject: [ Cloud Computing ] Re: cloud and user experience
>
>
> The importance of "cloud" computing to business is far beyond simple
> cost savings, allocation of resources, capex to opex conversion and
> economies of scale. These are the obvious reasons for considering the
> cloud and they are little more than a follow my leader game caused by
> the commoditisation of IT. As more competitors adopt the cloud it will
> create cost competitive pressures for others to follow. Consumers of
> IT will need simply to adapt to this change in order to retain their
> relative competitive positions (this is known as the red queen
> effect).
>
> However buried in all this is one truly interesting aspect known as
> componentisation. From the work of Herbert Simon's and his theory of
> hierarchy, we know that the speed of evolution of any system is
> directly related to the organisation of its subsystems. Take a moment
> to consider how fast it is to build an application today using a
> database and a development platform and then compare this to how slow
> it would be to build the same application if you had to first start
> designing the cpu, I/O and memory.
>
> Componentisation can make an incredible difference and the more
> organised the subsystems are, the faster it is to build new and adapt
> old systems.
>
> The shift of the computing stack towards services will lead to
> standardisation of lower order subsystems to internet provided
> components. A consequence of this will be an acceleration in the speed
> at which new IT systems can be built and modified.
>
> The world of IT and business on the web is about to get a whole lot
> faster.
>
> This is where the real value of the cloud is and its effect will be
> most strongly felt as the framework layer of the computing (what is
> often called PaaS) develops.
>
>
>
> >

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