Notes from MonadLUG, 12-Nov-2009: Cloud Computing
Ted Roche
tedroche at tedroche.com
Fri Nov 13 18:01:29 EST 2009
Ten people attended the November meeting of the Monadnock Region Linux
User Group, MonadLUG, on the usual second Thursday of the month at the
SAU #1 offices in Peterborough, NH.
Due to an emergency school board meeting, we had to move to another
classroom. Thanks to our sponsor, Ken, for arranging the alternate room
on short notice.
Charlie Farinella called the meeting to order and turned it over to
MonadLUG's new coordinator, Philip Sbrogna. Philip had a few
announcements and lead a round of introductions. We had a variety of
attendees with a range of experience and interests.
Tim Wessels [1] ran the discussion on Cloud Computing. Tim introduced
the subject with a great monologue on tracing the history of computing
on the desktop over the past 25 years, from single PCs and
mini-computers, through the networking era, into the internet and
world-wide computing, touching on the orders-of-magnitude increase in
speed, capacity, storage and processing power. He pointed out how the
poor economic outlook is probably going to be accelerating the move from
stand-alone to company-owned data centers to shared hosting machines to
virtual, scaleable, pay-as-you-go computing infrastructures. We touched
on the operational issues, security issues, and legal aspects. Many
members contributed to the discussion with insights on why they'd want
to use cloud computing, concerns their customers raise, situations where
cloud computing was or was not a good fit, and their personal
experiences with using cloud computing.
Tim mentioned that he's looked through a lot of books and hasn't found
many that have more information than can be read in the trade press.
However, he recommend the book: Cloud Security and Privacy, by Tim
Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy, Shahed Latif, published by O'Reilly Media,
September 2009, [2]
Thanks to Tim for moderating the discussion, to Philip for organizing
the meeting, to Ken and the SAU#1 office for the facilities, and to all
who attended and participated.
[1] http://www.timwessels.com/about_tim_wessels.htm
[2] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802776/
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