Cerf urges standards for cloud computing
In this recent Infoworld article, Vint Cerf, as always, asks the right question. The answer to his question is to return to the basics of the Internet that he created. The “inter-cloud” problem he described most recently at the Churchill Club stems from popular acceptance of HTML 15 years ago. While HTML sparked an Internet boom, it made people look at the Internet as a way to connect Web pages, not people.
Securing user data scattered among large numbers of Web silos is complex and consumes huge amounts of every users’ most valuable resource: time. The solution isn’t another identity standard or method for data portability. It’s a paradigm shift.
CLOUD’s technology standard is that shift. Read the rest of this entry »
