Analysing the rise of the distributed cloud model
March 5, 2015
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Matthew Finnie.
The current model for public cloud computing is an optimisation of the traditional construct of internet-facing data centres: maximise the scale of the facility to serve as broad a market as possible, using the Internet as the means of distribution. This model is wedded to a separation of the compute from the ‘dumb network’, or to use the original terminology of some 40 years ago, we are still in a world where we separate processing (computing) from inter-process communication (network).
The convenience of this separated relationship has bought us the Internet economy: an autonomous network that can deliver anything anywhere. The rise of cloud computing ‘as a service’ exploits this Internet delivery model, removing the need to buy and build your own data centres…
If buying digital infrastructure as a service is the future for computing, then the next question is whether the current architecture of cloud computing is the final resting place or will evolution take us elsewhere?…
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