Thursday, February 18, 2010
Moving Forward in the Cloud Field
Increasingly, cloud computing is becoming an Israeli field. Other countries are having problems understanding and making money from it. CA's newly appointed CEO is in Israel looking to buy knowledge and people "to provide us with the capabilities to move forward in the cloud field." Maybe I should try to look at this thing that is happening under my nose in Kever Benjamin Village and its surroundings.
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Computer Associates were notorious for being the scavengers of the computer industry. If the are still working according to the same knackers formula, cloud computing may in fact be on the verge of being commodified. Cloud computing was hyped as some sort of Holy Grail, a means of transparently communicating between large software systems hosted anywhere in the world by the magic of the internet and common protocols such as SOAP or its successors. CA is bad news, if it is on the move, in practical terms it means that the processes have become so rationalised and modularised that any code coolie in Hyderabad or Guangzhou can handle the software plumbing. Shareholders would of course welcome any opportunity to extract value by sending jobs overseas. I on the other hand say Death to commodification for the benefit of Gates, Ellison and Wang. Then again much creative life has already been squeezed out of computer programming, programmers spend the whole day, checking configurations, stress testing and using standard libraries that it is no great loss one way or another.
cloud computing may in fact be on the verge of being commodified
I have no idea what I am talking about, but CA's CEO appears to have said the opposite, that they need fresh ideas to move ahead in that field. What else he was looking for in Israel? Do you know what Israeli companies are working in this cloud field?
I too have very little idea, what I recall reading is this; CA is usually the last stop before closing time. They may have moved to better things since. Cloud computing seems to be a marketing term to describe the hosting of certain functions and services on servers which the customer can then access transparently. From the business point of view the value is in enabling commerce and gathering marketing data. But Amazon and Google are already doing that. No new technology is involved. My perspective is that of an embittered programmer, that CEO might have the angle on making money, which is what you are looking for.
It has been explained to me that cloud computing is distributing the work among many interconnected computer farms, so this note may be processed in any of the thousands of farms all over the globe, according to the general availability of time and power. It is basically self-organized processing, no one really follows what is happening in the system. I know of comp farm in Israel selling services through under ocean cable.
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