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Researchers Critique Today's Cloud Computing
Red Leader. writes "MAYA Design just released an excerpt from one of their forthcoming books as a white paper. The paper offers a different perspective on cloud computing. Their view is that cloud computing, as currently described, is not that far off from the sort of thinking that drove the economic downturn. In effect, both situations allowed radical experiments to be performed by gigantic, non-redundant entities (PDF). This is dangerous, and the paper argues that we should insist on decentralized, massively-parallel venues until we understand a domain very, very well. In the information economy, this means net equality, information liquidity, and radically distributed services (and that's pretty much the opposite of 'cloud computing' as described today). While there is still hope for computing in the cloud, it's hard not to wonder if short-term profits, a lack of architectural thinking about security and resilience, and long-term myopia aren't leading us in the wrong direction."
"...decentralized, massively-parallel venues until..." until its possible to slice, dice and securitize the cloud as investment opportunities. Oh wait...
we allowed radical experiments to be performed by gigantic, non-redundant entities.
The Japanese call it "Hentai."
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
With power outlets at nearly every seat on newer planes going from New York to Asia, cloud computing is great. The only problem is when they guy in front of you tilts his seat back too far. Of course, there is no redundancy, one laptop is expensive and heavy enough, thank you.
A measure of the likely price impact of executing my information order?
Bullshit!