Perspectives on cloud computing: interviews with five leading scientists from the cloud community
Venue
Journal of Internet Services and Applications (2011)
Publication Year
2011
Authors
Gordon Blair, Fabio Kon, Walfredo Cirne, Dejan Milojicic, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Dan Reed, Dilma Silva
BibTeX
Abstract
Cloud computing is currently one of the major topics in dis- tributed systems, with
large numbers of papers being writ- ten on the topic, with major players in the
industry releasing a range of software platforms offering novel Internet-based
services and, most importantly, evidence of real impact on end user communities in
terms of approaches to provision- ing software services. Cloud computing though is
at a for- mative stage, with a lot of hype surrounding the area, and this makes it
difficult to see the true contribution and impact of the topic. Cloud computing is
a central topic for the Journal of In- ternet Services and Applications (JISA) and
indeed the most downloaded paper from the first year of JISA is concerned with the
state-of-the-art and research challenges related to cloud computing [1]. The
Editors-in-Chief, Fabio Kon and Gordon Blair, therefore felt it was timely to seek
clarifica- tion on the key issues around cloud computing and hence invited five
leading scientists from industrial organizations central to cloud computing to
answer a series of questions on the topic. The five scientists taking part are: •
Walfredo Cirne, from Google’s infrastructure group in California, USA • Dejan
Milojicic, Senior Researcher and Director of the Open Cirrus Cloud Computing
testbed at HP Labs • Raghu Ramakrishnan, Chief Scientist for Search and Cloud
Platforms at Yahoo! • Dan Reed, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Tech-
nology Strategy and Policy and Extreme Computing • Dilma Silva, researcher at the
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, in New York
