SO just what do UC Berkeley researchers think about cloud computing. For a start, they believe cloud computing presents a great opportunity to exploit unprecedented IT resources, but only if vendors can overcome a litany of obstacles. Okay, nothing new there that we could work out oustide the lab.
But then they came up with the real gem that a key key necessary enabler of Cloud Computing was “the construction and operation of extremely large-scale, commodity-computer data centers at low-cost locations” – wow, mind blowing stuff!!
Okay – just joking around. The research did pinpoint the 10 key obstacles to cloud computing – so go check it out, download the PDF research report. The research group works in the Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory (RAD Lab), a 3-year-old outfit funded by companies such as Google, Microsoft, IBM and Sun. So I guess they have a fair amount of human computing power behind their suggestions.