• Shareability
– Make sharing as easy as creating and saving
• Freedom
– Users don’t want their data held hostage
• Simplicity
– Easy-to-learn, easy-to-use
• Essentially infinite amount of disk • Essentially infinite amount of computation • (Assuming they can be parallelized)
Google and Cloud Computing
Google与云e Internet: From Hardware to Community • The Innovation: A Computing Cloud • Breakthroughs for Cloud Computing • Google Apps for Cloud Computing • Google Infrastructure for Cloud Computing
• Data stored on the cloud • Software & services on the cloud - Access via web browser • Based on standards and protocols - Linux, AJAX, LAMP, etc. • Accessible from any device
1 User-Centric 2 Task-Centric 3 Powerful 4 Intelligent
5 Affordable 6 Programmable