If Cloud Computing is the next big thing in computing why and how SHOULD “Cloud Compute Storage” be implemented?

Cloud computing is a relatively new approach for the next generation of computing that, among other resources, includes massive compute cluster, operating as a single machine, to enable the use of shared resources.

The term cloud computing suggests that function comes from a public network and provides storage as a service.

So given the ongoing discussion of cloud computing is there a concept of could storage? Sure there is. Amazon provides cloud computing along with their associated Simple Storage Service (S3) offering. Additionally Microsoft, Sun, 3tera.com and Google provide variants of cloud compute + cloud storage.

I'd argue that for cloud computing to be the next big thing, somebody has to define, build and run a secure, highly scalable and stable computing storage cloud. This cloud based computing storage needs to massively scalable, reliable and immune to the latency and response time delay that are inherent in distance based computing and storage.

I am working on a paper that will discus how to define, build, run and secure, a highly scalable and stable compute storage cloud based Open Storage on commodity components, Open Solaris + ZFS.

Posted at 10:31AM Apr 15, 2008 by gwaterson in General  |