On the future of cloud charging problems

The cloud computing is so extensive that we often hear the explanation: "The user does not have to care where computing is going, just as you do not care about who you use for water, electricity and gas!" meaning.

But for utility services, we are in fact not concerned with service delivery. Perhaps the utility service has occupied the entire market, not lacking. The vast number of consumers still can not choose, so they also have time to take into account who provided us with what facilities and services. However, it is noted that hearings on the price increases of water prices, electricity prices, gas, fuel, heating, waste disposal and so on have been held in various places recently, which is of course due to the public's concern for the price charged for these public services. I want to wait until the cloud computing service for the vast number of consumers that day, we must also be very concerned about the cost of their corresponding. At the same time, fees are also a measure of quality.

Since the hearings can only be organized by the government, it is clear that there is a situation in our government that controls these markets. The opposite is deregulate, which corresponds to the market is an open market (open market). A market can be effectively regulated, provided that it is not open. Returning to the topic of municipal utilities service markets, there was once a history of market regulation in almost every country in the world that was able to provide such services. However, in the past one or two decades, many countries, mostly developed countries, have taken the path of deregulating the open market. As the market opens up, there is competition and service costs drop. Hearing is not needed and the result is only consumer benefits. When I previously lived in the United Kingdom, it was not until the early nineties that consumers were able to choose municipal utility providers, which were all industry monopolies that qualified as service providers.

For example, the telephone service at that time had to be provided by British Telecom. International long distance call back when playing with the general short and brief, but also very fast! Later, many pieces of the municipal utilities service market in the United Kingdom were deregulated. Salesmen were often on the market to promote gas, electricity and telephone services for some small companies. The author actually has a family for some time using a gas company to provide gas services, and a gas company to provide electricity services! Technically no problem, a small company can purchase its own natural gas into the municipal gas pipeline, you can also generate their own power grid. There are ways to accurately measure the entrance to the entrance, not to mention the measures at the consumer port. So in a deregulated market, service consumers do not really have to worry about who is providing the service, as long as they are cheap and good quality.

Compared with municipal utility services, if the intelligent level of cloud computing services is in the sky, then the former level is at best on the ground. Advanced intelligence makes cloud computing naturally has the open market non-monopoly. For example, a very important software operating system is running on the cloud, users do not have to buy a copy may be good for a long time can not use a few times, but by the rental time to pay, who use the quality and cheap who. Cloud anti-virus is also true, anti-virus services on various clouds can compete. It is even possible for a broker to pave the way for real-time pairing between users and service providers for the best possible balance of minimum fees.

We still have to work hard to maintain the open, non-monopolistic nature of cloud services, or else it may happen that "computing uses my cloud computing solution and my storage can only use my cloud storage solution because The interface for exchanging data between the two is private, the file size must be limited to 5GB or less, and the metadata size must be limited to 2KB or less. " "Of course my data inflow fee is cheap." Users should beware of its data outflow traffic Yo, leaving the price is higher than the entry price. I think the interface for data exchange between compute and storage should be standard, at least as far as the file size is concerned, so two independently unrelated servers provide computing and storage for one user. As a technician, I also consider the REST (Representational State Transfer) architecture of Web Services as a promising standard for cloud data exchange. Later I will take the time to introduce a standard cloud storage optimization solution, Atmos, implemented with REST.