I will be moderating a panel about the Future of Cloud Computing at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit tomorrow July 9th at the Ronald Reagan Building starting at 2:45.
It should be a great panel with professors from the University of Maryland College Park, Amol Deshpande, from their Cloud Computing Center and from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Grade Lewis. Our third panelist is a Computer Scientist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) who is working on the next version of the NIST Cloud reference architecture as well as being active in developing International Standards.
It was interesting in talking to the panelists in preparation for tomorrow. Much of the conversation, a bit to my surprise, focused as much on what is going on regarding the architecture and performance IN the cloud compared to the interface TO the cloud. Topics like cloudlets, clouds of clouds, federated clouds, and a statement that in the future that 80% of all cloud services will be consumed by ‘other’ cloud services will be discussed tomorrow.
The agenda can be found here.