Sun Cloud
Sun did some great announcements in the cloud space yesterday. What is a cloud or cloud computing? Watch this 4.51 min video and you know the concept. In case you never heard of virtualization you may want to spend another 5 min watching this prior to the above. Our strategy on Cloud Computing is very well described in this video by our Sr. VP Dave Douglas. You may also want to watch the recorded web cast from yesterday when we presented our Cloud concept at the CommunityOneEast Developer Conference in New York. We will be launching our Sun Cloud Storage Service and Sun Cloud Compute Service this summer!
One notion of the cloud is utility computing or what we called grid before, or call it network, using remote computing power on a needs basis. You do not own the hardware, you use power (CPU power in this context) over a data connection just the same as you use electricity or even the phone. You only take a phone in your hands, get a dial tone and start calling, not an awful lot of hardware in your house, no software to update. Wouldn't the same concept be nice for everything you do on a computer today? Just press a button and instantly have the network available to go look something up in the internet?
For me this is the future of computing not only for companies but also for each of us. I really dream of it mostly in those moments when I set up my computer again (usually takes hours to reconfigure everything), when I need to update software or store and backup my data. I really would love a provider do this for me in the most secure way, provide me with the latest software I need in this very moment, have a choice of applications that I could not all purchase myself for use a few times a year. I would be ready to pay a monthly subscription fee – absolutely yes.
Just think that you would never have to buy a computer again, which generally is a waste of money as 2-3 years afterwards you can throw it away and buy a new one. You have a thin client at home that simply does not need any updating and if so your provider just sends you a new one for free like they already do today for ADSL modems.
Already many years back Scott McNealy talked about what he was calling a “big friggin' Web Tone switch”. Still our motto today is “The Network is the Computer”. I really hope that I do not have to dream much more until this vision will really become true. With launching our grid a few years ago we were maybe a bit early but now the whole concept takes root as we see with Amazon Web Services' success.
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07:39PM Mar 19, 2009
by Volker Seubert in Sun |
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