I’m working on a simple formula to describe clouds and cloud computing. After working through numerous blogs and posts, reading vendors press releases and visiting their websites, I feel confident enough to give a first try:
What do you think about this:
Cloud = Computers*x + Virtualization + Automation + Service
where x depends on the cpu power of the utilized machines.
I’m begging for comments.
Roland
Ok, I may not have been too enthusiastic in writing about our Pulse visit up until now, but as we just enjoyed a really great session about virtualized datacenters I thought this would be a good reason to start doing so. Ok, it’s quite a different kind of automation compared to what we deal with usually, but it was quite impressive to see a reporting service being installed “on demand” on a virtualization cluster during the demo part of the session by means of just a few clicks in Tivoli Provisioning Manager. Ok, so you may wonder what is so exciting about the automated installation of a virtual system? Well, aside from the fact that you felt that the speaker (Vanja Gorazi) was really deep into the technical stuff behind it, it was probably that the way this happened was simply done right. Instead of specifying you need an xOS with ySQL to support the zReporting system, you simply choose the type of service needed and do not need to worry about all packaging and stuff behind the scenes. Oh, and did I mention that automation didn’t stop with the installation but continued with automatic addition of required or removal of unused resources by means of a component named Intelligent Orchestrator? Of course, the rules engine behind it sounded quite basic, so I guess there may will be some more interesting perspectives around here… guess I’ll need some time to think about that when this is over…
