Future cloud apps won’t need humans

>> So as we also look into the future I think what we're also going to start seeing is that applications are going to be increasingly responsible for self provisioning. As a computer scientist this is an area that I think is the most interesting in cloud computing is that whereas previously it seems like only like viruses and inaudible on the net have been able to take over computers and use them for their own purposes. Now we're actually seeing that applications we all know the familiar storage case studies of Ana motto and others whereby the applications themselves now in response to increased demand or load are able to provision service. So software itself now is provisioning physical servers, virtualized but that means there's no more human in the loop. So this is both sort of possibly a scary scenario if you think of the terminator series and sky net but we have an economic basis again for this it costs something. So when you're designing an application that is scaling I am sure you're likely to put n there but do not exceed X dollars per hour or whatever to make sure that the application does not run over your bill and on the service provider side I think that they're probably be constraints that this account may only go up to a certain amount again to protect against errors and things like that. But this means that you'll be able to create entirely new kinds of application that will be able to scale up and scale down and possibly you know reduce it may be at a point in time and it will say I can actually do with less right now and therefore save my company money and have the applications actually work on your behalf. This also allows platform as a service company that we talked about for developers developing a new kind of applications to dynamically scale with the customer demand. If you have a ruby and rales environment that you're trying to set up and you're fighting it out to your customers you may need, you may become very popular and again maybe need to dynamically increase the number of instances that you're running to meet your demand. And the cloud service customer again may chose different kinds of management and tools and policies according to their different needs so you don't have to settle what is provided by the service provider you can set up your own management tools because now you're working again in a virtual data center and those tools and everything else should match pretty closely to what you're familiar with and what you need. So your data center becomes virtual and very much more app centric as you're letting others match your physical systems. So the future I think is going to be very bright and in many ways I think we're talking about now global cloud of clouds. People have talked about this I think they've changed and Eric inaudible and Greg Poplidopolis assumed spelling and others as the inter cloud could think about it as a interconnected network of servers and storage and applications and this interconnected network then can actually have different parts. It can be divided and segmented into public and private areas or areas devoted to some particular application. But most importantly, we want to see that this is unified and driven by a set of protocols, software APIs and services so that this can be open to all, made advantage to everybody.

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