Overcoming the Cloud’s limits (UC.Berkeley)

Posted on 17 February 2009, 2:09 am, by zaine, under google-cloud, linux/open source.

Cloud computing can win if it overcomes the following ten obstacles (PDF), so say UC Berkeley researchers.

1. Availability of service
2. Data lock-in
3. Data confidentiality and auditability
4. Data transfer bottlenecks
5. Performance unpredictability
6. Scalable storage
7. Bugs in large distributed systems
8. Scaling quickly
9. Reputation fate sharing
10. Software licensing

The biggest obstacle is #2: data lock-in via proprietary formats. That’s exactly why the more ODF we see, the more we will be free (to leave). Richard Stallman, warns us of the cloud’s dark side:

It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign. Somebody is saying this is inevitable — and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it’s very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true. / – The Guardian, 29 September 2008 /

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