Sky Compute approaches? - Brokerage for clouds announced
A conversation point that has been debated with several of my colleagues inside of Sun as well as mentors and friends outside of Sun is that of cloud computing and the thought of being trapped to a single providers SLA. A dream I have had for a while is that of Sky computing where I can use any cloud to deliver my service. I can take this one step further and go back 8 years when I first joined Sun I listened to Scott McNealy talk about centralised compute and a stock market for procuring commodity compute cycles on the open market.
Well today I have just read that a start up originating in Deutsche Telekom, "Zimory" has started to supply tools to enable this virtual sky and to act as a broker to its customers. The link to the story on the register is here I still need to understand the technology and how open the tools are e.g if it is only based on managing Hyper-V machines but I think this is an interesting development.
The key question I have yet to see answered is what happens to the data and how do you move that around to the most efficient provider of storage or compute? It's ok moving virtual machines of a few Gigabytes if you have the bandwidth but when my data is reaching Terabytes what happens then?
