Internet’s Next Generation is Cloud Computing

“Cloud” has proliferated as the term for Internet-based computing resources because “everyone can draw one,” according to Russ Daniels, the cloud services CTO at Hewlett-Packard, who just added CTO responsibilities at the company’s Electronic Data Systems division. But the usage is fitting because white-board users have drawn the Internet as a cloud from the beginning, Daniels said at GigaOm’s Structure conference Thursday in San Francisco. The cloud is the next generation of the Internet, making it more than an infrastructure for automating business processes or letting humans view information, he said. The Internet so far has helped to carry out established business processes within an organization, Daniels said. Cloud computing will allow people to bring technology to bear in the real activities that drive business and personal life, which are collaboration and information-sharing among people, he said. “That’s what almost all of us do almost all the time,” Daniels said.

Cloud infrastructures make data “programmatically accessible” so that a variety of applications and services can tap into that information, rather than just humans browsing it. This will allow the Internet to solve new kinds of problems, he said. P is looking at the roles of the various participants in publishing, including creators, sellers, and readers, and aims to use cloud infrastructure to connect them through data rather than through process functionality, he said. This approach takes computing beyond the constraints of specific software applications, taking data outside application silos and eliminating the need for application integration work, Daniels said.

The advent of scalable, flexible computing resources has allowed many new Internet services to bloom, said Lew Moorman, chief strategy officer and president, cloud, at Rackspace Hosting. The panelists named solid-state drives, scalable data stores and emerging programming languages such as Rails as the biggest technologies that will keep driving this forward. “We are at a very steep point in the innovation curve because the infrastructure is so readily available,” Moorman said.

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