5 years down the road: The cloud of clouds

Grazed from GCN. Author: Rutrell Yasin.

Five years from now there will be a suite of international interoperability standards that will lead to a cloud of clouds, or “inter-cloud,” a future where there will be tight integration between multiple clouds. This tighter integration of clouds will have practical implications for government agencies, giving analysts the ability to sift through siloes of big data applications to make better informed decisions, according to John Messina, a senior member with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cloud computing program.

Big data sets that hold kernels of information that can be useful for decision-making are in semi-structured and unstructured formats in siloed data sources. “Think of the data resources you will have access to that will allow you to find kernels or nuggets that will help you make better business decisions” in a scenario where different types of cloud infrastructures are interconnected, Messina said during a panel discussion May 30 at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit held in Washington, D.C…

Interoperability is much broader than an organization or consumers talking with cloud providers, but also involves cloud providers communicating with one another and those providers interconnecting with other resources such as social media and sensor networks, Messina said. To date, standards groups worldwide have been focused on developing a vocabulary to establish a common language to describe cloud computing and a reference architecture, which is a high-level conceptual model that allows organizations and industry to fully understand complex systems and the relationships between them…

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