Todd et-al;
Excellent work! The whitepaper shows judicious consideration of the
many issues.
However, I have the following criticism
The Cloud computing organization is highly focused and centered on the
IT industry to the exclusion of communications industry inputs.
Obviously computing environments are the core requirements for
enabling of SaaS, PaaS and marshaling of developer and enterprise
momentum. However, focus should be paid to services that enable
access to the cloud. In particular:
On page 7 the Taxonomy shows the service customer at the top level
with the service provider and, not implied as directly connected, the
service developer. In reality the service environment does now and
will increasingly involve a connection through broadband service
providers including mobile and hybrid network service operators.
These can exist as simple pass-through facilitators of flat IP
broadband service or may instill themselves as an imposing layer due
to cost structure or restrictions including abilities of devices to
provide classes of or specific programs and content.
The Taxonomy should include a layer, perhaps called 'transport
service' or 'mobile communications' layer that sits between the
service provider and
service consumer. Obviously not all connections are mobile or
otherwise require a intervening service provider or the mobile network
operator, as they definitely plan to do, will become the service
provider often in direct competition with the (unawares?) distinct
'computing industry'.
This is important because there are real costs, network-server-storage-
database implementations, and program and access control the resides
in wireless network operators that is critical to overall (sic) Cloud
Computing/Cloud ICT.
Sincerely,
Robert Syputa
Maravedis, Cloud4G