This evening, we are at Cloud Camp. For background, check out this interview with Cloud Camp co-founder Dave Nielsen. Dave is also our host today.
The lightening rounds are done. For insights, search on twitter with either of these tags: #cloudcamp #cloudcampinterop
Now, Dave is building an un-panel session. He started with 5 empty chairs and no questions. Filled the chairs with folks who raised hands to “Folks that know a lot about cloud computing”. No one admitted expertise. Now, he’s asking the audience to build a list of 10 questions.
Interesting, not all of the panelists have identified themselves.
1. Will there be ‘A Big Switch’?
2. Will efforts like CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) help or hurt cloud computing?
What will happen is same as SOA, if there is a really easy way to do something, that will prevail over an standards industry effort. Think REST vs. WS-deathstar. -James Urquhart
3. Skills to become cloud computing expert?
Define things in terms you already know. Cloud is an operational model: self-service, on-demand, multi-tenant etc. How to apply this operational model to what you are doing today. -James Urquhart
4. Standards needed for maturity?
John Willis, interesting things with standards, DMTF, hypervisor and virtual images. Standards about provisioning. How to provide standards on configuration? DMTF is good place to go. Need to start with APIs. Standards could be driven by whoever succeeds first.
5. Legal risks for a corporation with Cloud Computing?
Secure communications act. Patriot act – Canada won’t store data in US. FBI seized all servers in server farm, based on suspicious actions of one tenant. These are really Internet issues, but cloud computing accelerates this. Legal system needs reform for cloud computing. -James Urquhart
6. Risk mitigation?
Alternate provider redundancy. [Rightscale representative]
7. Move large data to cloud?
8. Will we wake up one day, 5 years from now, and say “oh crap, why did we put our data in the cloud”?
9. Does Cloud Computing put IT Service Providers out of business?
10. Where should enterprise start?
John Willis, try stuff out to get familiar with capabilities and challenges. Be smart about what you pick. Also, consider private clouds.
11. Bonus: is Cloud Computing a useful term?
Useful now, might go away in future, as cloud computing becomes business as usual, aka “computing”. John Engates
Panelists pick and answer questions. [See commentary under questions]. If audience deems “answered”, good to go. If not, question will be discussed in an “un-conference” breakout session.
Questions 1, 8 & 9 were answered, but by folks with financial stake in outcome. These could be interesting questions to consider at another time, with a group of business & technology futurists.
Now, there is the prep & transition to the un-conference session. Probably tweet from there, back to blogging tomorrow at Enterprise Cloud Summit.
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