Ha, indeed :-) Standards don't need window dressing ... On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Krishna Sankar (ksankar) <ksankar@cisco.com> wrote:
And say "Cloud has no clothes" ;o)
Cheers <k/> |-----Original Message----- |From: Alexis Richardson [mailto:alexis.richardson@gmail.com] |Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:39 AM |To: Sam Johnston |Cc: Krishna Sankar (ksankar); occi-wg@ogf.org |Subject: Re: [occi-wg] Resource Types: Compute / Network / Storage | |Fabric is also used to refer to PaaS: |http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/11/14/cloud-types/ | |I suggest we drop the word 'fabric'. | | |On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> wrote: |> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Krishna Sankar (ksankar) |> <ksankar@cisco.com> wrote: |>> |>> But then SaaS is Software over PaaS; PaaS is fabric over IaaS; IaaS |is |>> compute, storage and network. Isn't fabric the P is PaaS ? and in |IaaS, we |>> see raw compute/storage/network ? |>> |>> If we want to maintain the Software-Platform-Infrastructure |terminology |>> hierarchy I am fine with that. Then we should switch the fabric and |the |>> Compute-Storage-Network. |> |> [Ab]use of the term "fabric" to refer to software platforms like Azure |is so |> far as I can tell a fairly recent trend (and one I'm relatively |unconvinced |> by). Granted the contept (whereby many interconnected nodes, when |viewed |> from a distance, appear to be a single coherent "fabric") could be |applied |> to both hardware and software, but it is most often applied to low |level, |> interconnected hardware such as SANs and InfiniBand... and servers: |> |>> What is fabric computing and how does it improve upon current server |>> technology? |>> The simplest way to think about it is the next-generation |architecture for |>> enterprise servers. Fabric computing combines powerful server |capabilities |>> and advanced networking features into a single server structure. |> |> We do need something to refer to the underlying hardware/firmware but |I'm |> even less convinced by proposed alternatives ("unified computing" |being the |> most obvious example). Perhaps "Hardware Fabric" would clarify? |> |> Sam |> |>