Our LinkedIn Cloud Computing groups featured discussion: Open Clouds!

My announcement to the group. Do feel free to join and discuss aggressively. If you haven’t joined the group, now maybe the time to do it!

Dear all,

Keeping the discussions open I’d like to not only share with you but also love to have you engage in helping all of us here develop the following issues around the cloud:

Topics that I’d love to initiate and may not be limited to , will be

1. GRC involving Security, Privacy, Trust, Transparency, Legal — Animal Instincts as Keynes would have said it, around Cloud (meaning the human factor as to why one must choose clouds) and the gov and inter-gov issues around the Clouds

2. Business Models around Cloud Computing

3. Resource, Jobs, Scheduling, QoS, Allocation — propose a proQoS, proAllocation — all of which are very crucial in the aspirational aspect around consumption of the services

4. Realtime IntraCloud and InterCloud Negotiations/Handlers — ProMetering, ProBilling via a metaController (an organ that will handshake and eventually evaluate the realtime value of a reservation in the cloud)

5. Tools and Knitting around building Clouds — RoR, .NET, Java, C++ etc

6. DataSet Delivery across GOCS (Globally Optimized Cloud Storage) - Also called CDN and the role of MNSPs

7. RTM (Realtime Monitoring) and RTR (Realtime Reporting) & HA of services within clouds — covering performance and reliability of the clouds

Obviously there is more to it but these discussions are already taking place in closed development circles of firms. I am holding discussions with many Sourforge developers who are building RTIM (Realtime Infrastructure Management ) interfaces for Clouds and eventually they will be the ones that will power the PAN -, MAN-, GAN - Clouds where suppliers and DC owners (even someone with even one container packed with a few thousand servers) with an underlying substrate powered with metaCores (processing, memory, etc) layer can seriously undermine the proprietary clouds where too much has been invested and might eventually cost you too much as well.

So Open Source Clouds will eventually challenge the proprietary Clouds. They will challenge them on costs, they will challenge on capacity management and if support body around those clouds is also adequately addressed, they could also end up being highly reliable clouds!

Thanks a bunch for being around and this space is only going to get charged up tremendously!

Tarry Singh

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