What if there was a mechanism to provision PaaS cloud environments (say MS Azure ) on public servers? Theoretically, if I had a free server(/cloud), I would install the "Azure runtimes" and add it to an existing cloud for others to use.
Registering a server to this free public cloud would then be a voluntary effort. This could have been a possibility if Azure allowed in-premise setup in the first place.
Can I call the end result as "Distributed Cloud Computing" ? Cloud computing that is distributed.
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Monday, 14 June 2010
Cloud Thoughts - 1
A few cloud related thoughts
Cloud Cumulus
A single cloud access point that internally seamlessly talks with the subscribed cloud providers. Eg:- Subscriber A could subscribe to the services of Amazon, Google and Micrsoft (yes, Subscriber A is quite well off) cloud services. Subscriber A would deploy the same app on each of these servers and provide a single service URI. Subscriber A's customers would be serviced by one of the cloud provider seamlessly - perhaps with parts of the request being handled by more than one provider. Session states, data etc being shared across clouds is interesting.
For A's customer, there is only one cloud. The cloud of cloud providers / Cumulus Cloud accessed with a single entry point.
Perhaps, once the Unified Cloud Interface (UCI) is in place, this could be built?
Upgrade Ease
How easy is it to upgrade a cloud based app that is actively serving hundreds of users? Came across this for Azure : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee517254.aspx
Not sure what happens to the application state. If an 'In-Place' upgrade is followed, does it mean that at a particular point in time there could be two instance of the same application running on different versions?
Chess On Cloud
Though there are numerous instances of distributed chess engines, has anyone attempted to get a chess engine on the cloud? I guess the only person who can try this out today is Bill with his Azure and his $'s.
Cloud Cumulus
A single cloud access point that internally seamlessly talks with the subscribed cloud providers. Eg:- Subscriber A could subscribe to the services of Amazon, Google and Micrsoft (yes, Subscriber A is quite well off) cloud services. Subscriber A would deploy the same app on each of these servers and provide a single service URI. Subscriber A's customers would be serviced by one of the cloud provider seamlessly - perhaps with parts of the request being handled by more than one provider. Session states, data etc being shared across clouds is interesting.
For A's customer, there is only one cloud. The cloud of cloud providers / Cumulus Cloud accessed with a single entry point.
Perhaps, once the Unified Cloud Interface (UCI) is in place, this could be built?
Upgrade Ease
How easy is it to upgrade a cloud based app that is actively serving hundreds of users? Came across this for Azure : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee517254.aspx
Not sure what happens to the application state. If an 'In-Place' upgrade is followed, does it mean that at a particular point in time there could be two instance of the same application running on different versions?
Chess On Cloud
Though there are numerous instances of distributed chess engines, has anyone attempted to get a chess engine on the cloud? I guess the only person who can try this out today is Bill with his Azure and his $'s.
Everyday Enterprise Architecture - The book - full download
It appears that Tom has put the full version of his new book for download for a limited period of time. Check out if it is still available here
Note: though the page might say its a preview edition, its actually the full book.
Note: though the page might say its a preview edition, its actually the full book.
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