I’ve been busy for almost the last year in developing infrastructure services for cloud computing platform – mainly dispersed storage – and during that I’ve been working closely with cloud computing giants and have seen several cloud computing management and provisioning frameworks — that include Q-Layer framework — I can really see the change happening to the IT world because of the ‘Cloud’ and how the cloud will affect the way we think in everything, how we think in storage, how we think in application development and even how we can make business using IT.
Let me first define what cloud computing is. Cloud computing named to be the next generation of distributed systems where you use computer resources as a service and you don’t have to pay attention to all of how/where/when questions related to administration and management and even technical issues. you simply use the resource — storage as an example — and you put your files/data over and you don’t care how are they going to make sure that your data will be available at all times, how are they going to manage disk failures and even how to manage the network latency problems, this bring us to the most important point of cloud computing ’security’ how can I make sure that it’s only me who can actually read the data? so far, there are no good-known-standard way of storage that ensure that but you can always use the typical cryptography methods to make sure you are the only one who can read the data but that doesn’t necessarily have to be applied on other types of computer resources. So the cloud is there somewhere on the internet and you can access it using -maybe- some API or protocol and that’s it, no extra money for deployment, electricity, servers, management, security, etc. » Read more: Cloud Computing
