Thu. Apr. 10, 2008
by Jimmy Pike, Director—System Architecture
Probably the best next step for this discussion is to begin to build a top to bottom model of Cloud Computing. I think there are about 12 major pieces to it so this is going to take a while. As I mentioned earlier, “Cloud computing”, I believe, may in fact become the basis for most modern IT services in the next few years. We also put forth this definition with which most folks seem to agree……“Cloud computing” - packaging of computing resources in a manner that will provide lower acquisition cost of hardware and in a way that provides a set of optimized services to the end user via the Internet in the most cost effective, operationally efficient means possible. So I took a stab at the model for this which is shown here:
At this point it is certainly OK to disagree! …. In fact, I have found myself arguing with myself about it already. :o) So we’ll pause here and let folks take this in. Then we will start layer by layer to make sure is correct. My hope is not only can we build an agreeable model at the technical level, but a financial model from which we can get TCO and other information. Feel free to comment…