Scott Mattoon's Blog
IaaS standards will enable a market place in which workloads can be moved
from cloud to cloud according to price, capacity, and feature criteria. A few
companies are jockeying for the pole position in the race to provide the
arbitrage for this meta cloud.
Ian Kallen over at Technorati wrote a nice post about the cloud computing
ontology and the subtleties of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). I'm glad
to know he's still working on the hard problems there at the blogsphere
search engine after their recent cost cutting measures.
As he has said to me previously, he writes, "What I foresee is that the first
vendor to embrace and commoditize a standard interface for infrastructure
management changes the game." I think he's right, particularly in his
prediction that these standards will enable a market place in which workloads
can be moved from clou... (more)