Google never says how many servers are running in its data centers. But a recent presentation by a Google engineer shows that the company is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/talks/dean-keynote-ladis2009.pdf
wasn't the emergence of cloud computing supposed to help solve these types of problems? Isn't cloud computing supposed to be the answer to all our problems?I'm here to tell you. Hell No! Cloud computing is Dangerous!Helping bring this danger to the forefront was the announcement last week that a division of Microsoft ironically called Danger Inc had likely lost all the contacts, photos and other personal data for users of the T-Mobile Sidekick. Pretty bad, huh? What was worse is this cloud service was a manditory requirement for using the Sidekick service. If you wanted to use a Sidekick you had no choice but to use this sadly lacking excuse for a hosted data service
Cloud interoperability--the ability to abstract the programmatic differences from one cloud to another--is a key to adoption. If we assume that some percentage of private compute clouds will be based on virtualization, and we know that a large percentage of public clouds already are, then the ability to move among virtual machines is a critical function in this regard.
Deltacloud gives you:
* REST API (simple, any-platform access)
* Support for EC2, RHEV-M; VMWare ESX, RackSpace coming soon
* Backward compatibility across versions, providing long-term stability for scripts, tools and applications
