The cloud shouldn’t be an over the top service

GigaOM (Dec 6 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

1. The public Internet and the cloud shouldn’t mix, according to a paper out today from Joe Weinman of HP. Cisco seems to agree, if Tuesday’s announcement of its CloudVerse suite of products is any indication. A growing number of endpoints, the multiple services built within web applications, and the infinite variety of demands made on any web-based service mean the network can’t be trusted to run over the top. The network is the cloud, so it needs to be agile, smart and billed based on usage. Instead, the industry will need to move to pay-per-use, dynamic networks where possible to improve the economic benefits of cloud scenarios and deliver defined quality-of-service for applications that will require low latency, argues Weinman. Weinman, who moved over to HP from AT&T last year, is a deep thinker on the economics of cloud computing. He also argues that bandwidth will ... (Read Full Article)

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