I’ve just posted a draft paper on my site on the topic of Cloud Computing and DoD’s Net Centric Operations. My intent with this paper is to keep beating it up till it is in condition to publish, and I would value your comments on the paper. Please check it out at:
Cloud_Computing_and_Net_Centric_Operations-3
[late entry: for an updated version of that paper see: http://www.whitehouse.gov/cyberreview/documents/ ]
One of the things I learned while pulling together this info is that honest people disagree, sometimes vehemently, on exactly what the term Cloud Computing means. For that reason I recommend anyone writing or briefing the topic start with a definition right up front. For the purposes of the paper I’m working on for DoD I mention two ways to look at the term. For most users, they view anything done elsewhere as “cloud” computing. For most technologists and architects they view “cloud computing” as a much more elegant term which implies new ways of providing capability on demand by use of virtualized resources, pools of storage and other scalable computational resources.
Note, I’m very thankful to the dozens of friends and associates who have already commented on this paper. Most initial dialog I had on the paper was via Twitter, which once again proved to me the value of that cloud based capability.
Bob
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