Re: The Business of Building Clouds

Khaz,

 

By HTTP Get/Put/Delete/etc., you mean RESTful web services support?

 

Thanks,

-Michael

 

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Khazret Sapenov <sapenov@gmail.com> wrote:

Larry,

In theory most cloud vendors(given they offer considerably homogenuos services) should have some common set of features, that comply to some protocol. I would compare it to webservers using HTTP. So what Joyent proposes is something like HTTP (GET/PUT/DELETE etc) for cloud computing. 

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On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Larry Ludwig <larrylud@gmail.com> wrote:

 

In particular he says "a developer should be able to move between Joyent, the Amazon Web Services, Google, Mosso, Slicehost, GoGrid, etc. by simply pointing the "deploy gun" at the cloud and go." I think he nailed it dead on with this statement.   

Hi Reuven,

I've read that article also,  I too think it would be great to move service between different providers.  I think reality will set in how different each cloud provider will be.   Yes I think you will find some application to convert between providers, but I also think that will be the key differentation between providers. One provider will only have feature X, while another provider will only have feature Y.  In order for each cloud provider to exist, they has to be some barrier of entry from other providers and also a method to not make it too easy for customers to leave.  Otherwise why would a cloud provider exist and offer service?  Geolocation of the cloud isn't enough of a reason.

-L

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