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23 Nov 2007
Five Computer Clouds Are All We Need
Interesting post by Baris Karadogan. He surmises that only five computer clouds are needed to cover all needs. He sees a consumer cloud, an enterprise cloud, a consumer infrastructure cloud, a enterprise infrastructure cloud and a communications cloud.
This reminds me very much on work that I did years ago. Then I made a split between context services, tele-services, enabling services, IT-services and network services. That happened to be 5 groups of services as well.
The consumer cloud is similar to the context services group. It covers services for end-users. I surmised that there would be multiple context, which were dependent on affinities of end-users. Facebook would be a generic example.
The enterprise cloud would be similar to the tele-services group. I also geared this group to end-users, but with the arrival of context, this is less and less true. The idea is that tele-services will be bought by context service providers.
The enterprise infrastructure cloud would be similar to enabling services group. It would contain any service needed to build an enterprise. This group of services is not geared toward end-users.
The IT-group is for basic services. It is very similar to what Amazon is offering in terms of web-services. And thus similar to the consumer infrastructure cloud. I do not understand why Kerdogan calls this 'consumer', as the services are also used by enterprises.
The communications cloud is similar to my network services group, but also incorporates ISP's, etc.
[Inspiration Baris Karadogan]