The Sky Above the Clouds
Ken Goldberg joins co-authors Sarah Chasins, Alvin Cheung, Natacha Crooks, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael I. Jordan, Anthony D. Joseph, Michael W. Mahoney, Aditya Parameswaran, David Patterson, Raluca Ada Popa, Koushik Sen, Scott Shenker, Dawn Song, and Ion Stoica to publish "The Sky Above The Clouds" in Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing on Arxiv.
From the abstract:
Technology ecosystems often undergo significant transformations as they mature. For example, telephony, the Internet, and PCs all started with a single provider, but in the United States each is now served by a competitive market that uses comprehensive and universal technology standards to provide compatibility. This white paper presents our view on how the cloud ecosystem, barely over fifteen years old, could evolve as it matures.
Read the article here!