On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 10:48 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently published
> an official definition², and while "government-committee definition"
> may light up some alarms, this is actually straightforward and
> fuctional. Once you get past the preamble, there's really only two
> pages to it.
>
> I like this definition because while it's still broad, it focuses on
> essential characteristics which distinguish cloud computing from datacenter
> virtualization in general and from "it's on the Internet!"
Yeah, the NIST definition is fairly well accepted.
> If I haven't lost you already, I encourage you to read the definition.
> Really, it's short. But if you're hanging on by an attention-span thread,
> the essentials are:
>
> - On demand self-service.
> - Broad network access.
> - Resource pooling.
> - Rapid elasticity.
> - Measured service.
That's a good summary. I often say "on-demand, self-sevice,
pay-as-you-go and the illusion of infinite capacity".
Cheers,
Mark.
I agree NIST is pretty well accepted - I personally use Dave
Nielsen's OSSM definition as it seems more consumable:
On-demand
Self-Service
Scalable
Measurable
--David