Dan’s SCADA Presentation
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2 responses to “Dan’s SCADA Presentation”
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Hi Dan,
Interesting concepts. I started getting the “confused dog” look when the presentation showed that my desktop / laptop is a private cloud. While it matches a given definition, I think it doesn’t jive with the intent of Mell and others. I may be “2000-and-late”, but to me pools of resources is the vision when speaking of cloud infrastructure. The intention is multiple boxes appearing as a single fabric of potentially massive scale.I really appreciate the ideas/concepts of everything in the cloud and the push to increasingly mobile connectivity. The sensor discussion hits this concept very well.
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One of the reasons I like doing presentations is that I get to try out thoughts, even those that do not work out.
So, first there is no question that saying that your desktop in effect is a small private cloud is not consistent with the NIST, or standard, definition.
The point I am making is part of the “there is nothing in center” approach to business and technical architecture. My problem with the current emphasis on cloud implementations is not the importance but the thought that it is an end point. In fact, cloud computing is still another intermediate step in a continuum, with the next step being poorly defined.
Thus what I am trying to say is that there was something that was ‘like’ a cloud before we did clouds and there will be something else beyond a cloud tomorrow. You should not do architecture assuming a static reality.
The point may be too esoteric to be useful, I haven’t decided yet.
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