the rad lab at berkeley has published a paper that provides an executive summary of cloud computing. the paper, titled "above the clouds: a berkeley view of cloud computing", covers many topics; this blog post will not do it justice. the short version is that cloud computing is a good thing, it's good that it has finally arrived, and gives 10 obstacles to overcome in order for it to thrive. these are:
* availability of service
* data lock-in
* data security
* network bandwidth support
* performance unpredictability
* storage scalability
* distributed debugging
* computational burst framework
* reputation
* software licensing
read the full paper for the juicy bits!
