The Sky’s the Limit For Cloud Computing

Grazed from ScienceWorld. Author: Editorial Starff.

Last week’s event Cloudscape VI in Brussels, Belgium, which had the tagline ‘cloud for a smart economy and smart society’, featured much discussion of the policy aspects of cloud computing, as well as the potential benefits of cloud computing for both business and scientific research. “Cloud is still very emergent,” says Ken Ducatel, head of software and services, cloud computing at the European Commission. “There are a lot of business models and they’re very complex: there’s no one-size fits all solution.”

The event also featured a panel discussion on the subject of cloud adoption and how to measure success. In this session, Ducatel cited trust as the greatest barrier to adoption, whereas Abdella Battou from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology highlighted standards, particularly in relation to security, as the greatest barrier…

By contrast, Gabriella Cattaneo of the International Data Corporation (IDC) says: “There is no single barrier. Security and standards are very important, but the trust barrier may be more important for some, while interoperability can also be a major issue.” Meanwhile, David Bernstein, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), believes that the greatest barrier to successful cloud adoption is, simply, imagination: “the fathers of the telephone never imagined today’s mobility," he says…

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