http://www.vmworld.com/blogs/scotthan Have you ever really "learned" anything from a manual ? ... yeah me neither, I use them after I get stuck trying to USE the stuff. Much better way to learn ! 2008-09-19T15:41:38Z http://www.vmworld.com/blogs/scotthan/2008/09/19/my-thoughts-on-the-vcloud <br /> At the VMworld 2008 keynote there was an emphasis on vEverything, and in particular the vCloud. At the high level, the idea is a great one, be able to seamlessly move workloads in and out of the Cloud, no matter where the resources exist in the cloud. My datacenter, your datacenter, their datacenter.<br /> <p /> In my previous life I was lucky enough to work on the team at IBM that was engaged in the beginning of the <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.teragrid.org/">TeraGrid project</a>. A great project with a goal of uniting several academic HPC Cluster sites across the US, so they could share the computational resources.<br /> <p /> We thought the biggest challenges would be of a technical nature, turned out the political and trust challenges far outweighed the technical.<br /> <p /> How can I trust my data is secure at your site ? Who will have access to the data ? I need admin rights on your site. How do we charge back for your hogging all the bandwidth with your project ?<br /> <p /> I would encourage <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.vmware.com/company/leadership.html">Paul Maritz</a> to meet with the <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.teragrid.org/about/management.html">leaders of TeraGrid</a> and discuss those challenges and how they deal with those issues. It's the natural order of the world for us to learn from academia. 2008-09-19T16:01:27Z 3 months, 2 weeks ago http://www.vmworld.com/blogs/scotthan/comment/my-thoughts-on-the-vcloud http://www.vmworld.com/blogs/scotthan/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1296