Comments on: Cloud Enabled http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6511/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:58:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: dmattins http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6511/#comment-1339 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:36:24 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6511/#comment-1339 Well, would you consider FaceBook cloud-enabled ? It allows you to access your data from anywhere ( via the web ) . If so then the whole Web is a cloud and a cloud just becomes an interface that hides where your data is . But wait , it's not your data any more , because once you put it into the cloud it belongs to FaceBook and if you try to get it back you get rained out of the cloud . Well , I guess clouds go Microsoft one better: - Microsoft owned the programs ( and we only had a license to install them and use them on our own machines ) but we owned the data because we owned the machines that the data was stored on - now the cloud owns the programs and the cloud owns the data because the cloud owns the machines that the data is on The obvious follow-up question then becomes: - who owns the cloud(s) ? and now , we are entering: the twilight zone ... Well, would you consider FaceBook cloud-enabled ?

It allows you to
access your data from anywhere
( via the web ) .

If so then the whole Web is a cloud
and a cloud just becomes
an interface that hides where your data is .

But wait , it’s not your data any more ,
because once you put it into the cloud
it belongs to FaceBook
and if you try to get it back
you get rained out of the cloud .

Well , I guess clouds go Microsoft one better:
- Microsoft owned the programs
( and we only had a license
to install them and use them
on our own machines
) but we owned the data
because we owned the machines
that the data was stored on
- now the cloud owns the programs
and the cloud owns the data
because the cloud owns the machines
that the data is on

The obvious follow-up question then becomes:
- who owns the cloud(s) ?
and now , we are entering: the twilight zone …

]]> by: bruno.santos http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6511/#comment-1336 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:16:16 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6511/#comment-1336 This "cloud business" sounds to be a low profile concept of HPC, just a neat way to govern various computers into running distributed applications. In other words, don't bother the client computer with heavy work, just distribute the work over the network to others with more computing/storage power. Which is great, if I want to use a PDA (or just a wrist watch) and access all of my movies, music... and spreadsheets! I say this, because if it really was "The Solution for HPC", it should have a seriously cool name, like: "hurricane enabled", "typhoon enabled" or "cyclone grid", or even "gridded thunderstorm(s)" (with overclocking enabled on demand). Personaly, I would prefer "Moon Enabled", with really low latency, low temperatures, a whole satellite for storage, sun powered, outer space cooled and... well, no O2 to react with, to create green house effects! As for the CherryPal, seems like the perfect green solution, including the capability of reducing software/media piracy to 0% in their boxes! This “cloud business” sounds to be a low profile concept of HPC, just a neat way to govern various computers into running distributed applications. In other words, don’t bother the client computer with heavy work, just distribute the work over the network to others with more computing/storage power. Which is great, if I want to use a PDA (or just a wrist watch) and access all of my movies, music… and spreadsheets!
I say this, because if it really was “The Solution for HPC”, it should have a seriously cool name, like: “hurricane enabled”, “typhoon enabled” or “cyclone grid”, or even “gridded thunderstorm(s)” (with overclocking enabled on demand).

Personaly, I would prefer “Moon Enabled”, with really low latency, low temperatures, a whole satellite for storage, sun powered, outer space cooled and… well, no O2 to react with, to create green house effects!

As for the CherryPal, seems like the perfect green solution, including the capability of reducing software/media piracy to 0% in their boxes!

]]> by: csk317 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6511/#comment-1335 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:05:28 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6511/#comment-1335 Your forgot about the mesh! Where would computing be without buzz words and acronyms? Platform had an interesting live discussion on this topic at their event last month. Your forgot about the mesh! Where would computing be without buzz words and acronyms? Platform had an interesting live discussion on this topic at their event last month.

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