“Unlocking the cloud” skrev The Economist i maj måned. Artiklen handlede om, at der var en trussel mod åbenheden i forbindelse med cloud computing (Wikipedia kan hjælpe dig i gang, hvis du er blank her).
I artiklen stod der at læse:
“Cloud computing”—the delivery of computer services from vast warehouses of shared machines—enables companies and individuals to cut costs by handing over the running of their e-mail, customer databases or accounting software to someone else, and then accessing it over the internet.
There are many advantages to this approach for both customers (lower cost, less complexity) and service providers (economies of scale). But customers risk losing control once again, in particular over their data, as they migrate into the cloud. Moving from one service provider to another could be even more difficult than switching between software packages in the old days.
For a foretaste of this problem, try moving your MySpace profile to Facebook without manually retyping everything.
Nu går gigantiske IBM så til kamp mod netop denne form for lock-ins i forbindelse med Cloud Computing. På Creative Commons’ Facebook-side og i en tråd på en Google-gruppe, har man annonceret en kladde for et whitepaper for Cloud Computing. I indledningen står følgende:
The goal of the Cloud Computing Use Case group is to bring together cloud consumers and cloud vendors to define common use case scenarios for cloud computing. The use case scenarios will demonstrate the performance and economic benefits of cloud computing, and will be based on the needs of the widest possible range of consumers.
This whitepaper utilizes existing customer based scenarios with the goal of highlighting the capabilities and requirements that need to be standardized in a Cloud environment to ensure interoperability, ease of integration and also portability. It strives to ensure that cloud computing evolves as an open environment, minimizing vendor lock-in and increasing customer choice.
Læs mere hos ElasticVapor | Hent det 22 sider lange white paper (PDF) | 370 KB
Har dette noget at gøre med “Nye medier set med journalistiske øjne”, som er denne blogs beskrivelse? Nej, ikke umiddelbart. Men det har noget at gøre med internettet, og hvordan vi i fremtiden kommer til at bruge nettet som platform for vores arbejde, indhold og kommunikation. Og derfor synes jeg, det var relevant lige at dele dette link.