[ Cloud Computing ] Re: Compute surface as a traded commodity?

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> Bruce wrote:
> >Will the "Cloud" ever become a pool of hosting providers who pitch their prices, SLA's and storage cost so customers will come to their "cloud" for services?
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> I foresee a time into the future where the compute surface is virtualized and standardized enough that hosting contracts can be traded as a commodity on a market, rather than the RFP type process we have today.
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> Such agreement would allow business to place a deal on an exchange much like FX today and get bids to run based on some parameters. IT hosters would price the deal with a spread in the same way as a currency trade today, the deal done in a matter of seconds and hosted for the duration of a contract window.
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I think it will go much further than that. Consider how an IP connection is negotiated today without human intervention! There is no reason why a workload can't be autonomically negotiated by the private cloud with different providers in the public based on an autonomic-SLA. While we are a long way from this - I think this is the vision that some of us see as the future of cloud computing. Infrastructure will self-manage and our focus will be on helping the software become far more self-sufficient.
 
In the meantime - we need to focus our efforts on the challenges in front of us - private-to-public (and public-to-public) migrations, autonomics, SLA automation, security and privacy improvements, stack orchestration, improved discovery and self-wareness, and eventually standards.
 
-w

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