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Will Cloud Services One Day Be Traded Just Like Stocks and Bonds?
Brandon Butler writes "Today, cloud computing resources are bought and sold in a fairly straightforward process: A company needs extra compute capacity, for example, so they contract with a provider who spins up virtual machines for a certain amount of time. But what will that process look like in, say, 2020? If efforts by a handful of companies come to fruition, there could be a lot more wheeling and dealing that goes on behind the scenes. An idea is being floated to package cloud computing resources into blocks that can be bought and sold on a commodity futures trading market. It would be similar to how financial instruments like stocks, bonds and agricultural products like corn and wheat are traded on exchanges by investors. Blocks of cloud computing resources — for example a month's worth of virtual machines, or a year's worth of cloud storage — would be packaged by service providers and sold on a market. In the exchange, investors and traders could buy up these blocks and resell them to end users, or other investors, potentially turning a profit if the value of the resource increases."
They'll probably go the way of Texas and get Republicans to pass a bill saying only authorized data dealers can buy from Amazon and everyone else has to buy from them. Funny thing about all the Tesla muckraking recently: the Republicans here in Texas have the biggest fucking hardon ever for middlemen, in all areas, not just auto sales.
By the way, I've been hearing tons about how the government shutdown is cutting off brewers ability to sell beer, why doesn't anyone ask Ted Cruz why the Republicans don't deregulate beer? I bet if someone did he'd have to spend the next 5 minutes adjusting his pants while stammering about green eggs and ham and how the bible says that people should only get drunk on government approved beer.