From the development of java cloud computing

Lead: Some time ago, Gaurav Pal, director of strategic planning at Smartronix, published an article on GigaOM that says that because the cloud computing process is very similar to that of Java, we may be able to harness the advances in Java and WORA Analysis, to a general analysis of the evolution of the various models of cloud computing in the coming years.

The following is the full text of the article:

The write-once, run-once (run-once) write-up by Stanford University Network in the United States was quite popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Today, a new wave of technology is evolving: Deploy once, scale anywhere (once deployed, any extension), or DOSA. Why do we care about WORA now? Because by understanding the evolution of Java and WORA, we may know how the various cloud computing models will evolve over the next few years.

As an Enterprise Architect for multiple large-scale Java and cloud deployments, I've been following closely the development of both technologies. Based on this experience, I saw their similarities, and I believe the various cloud platforms will eventually be similar to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), creating a separate infrastructure to enable the new architecture.

As the cloud computing platform began to mature and interoperable seeds began to sprout, DOSA day is not far away. Eucalyptus AWS API compatibility transactions is one way this may be done. Another possibility is the availability of cloud services enabled in OpenStack, such as HP, Rackspace and AT & T. VMWare recently acquired DynamicOps also pointed out this direction. These are just some developments that are taking place every day. DOSA appears to be close to PaaS technology, such as CloudFoundry and OpenShift, providing resilient application containers in the same way as ubiquitous Java virtual machines that Java promised 15 years ago. Obviously, the major industry manufacturers have already begun to prepare.

I bet the chaos of cloud computing (especially IaaS and PaaS) will evolve into a more subtle DOSA message. IT companies will have the ability to shrink and proliferate based on open and flexible infrastructure platforms. These infrastructure platforms will primarily include commodity hardware and intelligent software to ensure interoperability across service providers.

Here are three key similarities between WORA and DOSA:

A new way to run an application

Just as organizations are struggling to establish new applications in the Internet and the Internet age in the late 1990s, companies are looking for new ways to build network-scale systems. Just as Java is seen as a new way to build applications that can be deployed on any operating system, the next generation of cloud applications can also be dynamically deployed on any cloud platform. Driven by the rapid growth of mobile devices and rich applications, the company's expansion model is shifting from expensive dedicated servers to more offerings. The logical extension of these extended models allows for the easy selection of infrastructure service providers, thereby reducing the threshold for vendor entry.

2. Open systems continue to increase

The idea that software should be open without paying a large license fee was really developed in the mid-1990s with the opening of Java and Linux. This wave is infiltrating into the realm of infrastructure. Enterprise data centers for "old" IT vendors must now transition from hundreds of millions of dollars in expensive equipment to models based on open and interoperable usage.

3. Standardization of infrastructure

The WORA phenomenon gave birth to a standardized requirement, which subsequently led to the emergence of the Java ecosystem. Likewise, cloud computing has made a huge effort to standardize modernization and IT infrastructure technologies. This will ultimately enable interoperability of internal and external cloud services, including security, application, hardware, virtualization software, monitoring and management of a complete set of systems and software.

So, who will be the driver of DOSA? This is a new field, but also revealed the momentum of development, Gartner company has talked about a lot of cloud middlemen. Many interesting models begin to emerge:

Jamcracker and Virtustream are innovations in cloud proxy.

Vendors in content delivery networks and telecoms are also beginning to act as cloud networking. For example, Akamai's Global Traffic Manager (GTM) allows organizations to automatically direct traffic between workload centers.

Existing cloud service providers such as Microsoft Azure are also beginning to explore cross-platform interoperability.

The ability to move workloads seamlessly between centers in a hybrid cloud configuration is an emerging architectural blueprint. Deliver the right to "deploy once, grow arbitrarily" to businesses that are looking for innovation, rapid migration, and are not locked into costly, proprietary data centers.

Although Sun invented Java, the biggest beneficiary is IBM. So, I wonder who the emerging DOSA winner will be?