Jonathan Schwartz

Based upon my experiences at Mosgo's yesterday, I've been looking more and more into open Source as I have time. Put that in between teaching and disAbility/ Accessibility readings.

Today, I've centered on Sun and Jonathan Schwartz. After watching two conference presentations, I am now watching his VLog. I can't really enunciate or speak clearly about what I'm learning; I feel much more like I am getting oriented to the situation. I've also been exposed to the ideas of Open Storage and at Open Networks.

I do not really know why I am watching this material, but my gut tells me to pay attention and it seems critical to understanding the engines through which information is filtered and flows.

Everything else aside, this stuff fascinates me.

Notes about various kinds of clouds from Schwartz talk

most basic: Infrastructure as a service cloud [you must own or be building an operating system] (amazon)

more advanced: Platform as a service
Portability gets lost (google/facebook)

currently going strong: Application as a service (CRM)


unified computing:
convergence of computing, networking, and storage

"free penetrates every marketplace" (near quote)
sun.com/cloud

cloud computing at wikipedia

network theory at wikipedia







"There's a network of clouds in your future."