Thing 1: what do we mean when we say cloud?

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at 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