The Real Promise of Cloud Storage

the real promise of cloud storage terry jones terry@ﬂuidinfo.com @terrycojones

using the cloud for regular storageoffers only linear beneﬁts

linear accumulation of value

this is howwe typically do open!

cloud storage offers somethingmuchmore interesting...

the possibility ofshared (writable) storage

1information is more valuable when stored in context

post-it notes: a distributed asynchronousinformation storewith a wonderful user interface

what if applications could also store data in context? an example:tickery.net, wemet.at, tunkrank

do the math!

the friendly face of nuclear data

shared writable storage allows unexpected data combination (boom!) value from search augmentation personalization dynamic organization

but shared storage also allows...

2 the evolution ofasynchronous data protocols

2 the evolution ofasynchronous data protocols da da!!

asynchronous data protocol

asynchronous data protocol storage

inter-building communication via post-it notes

read-only

read-only read-write

tear-off strips

evolution of conventionasynchronousdata protocol

evolution of convention

evolution of convention@addressing, #hashtags, RT

ok, humans can do itwhat about applications?

we’ve already seen an example:tickery.net, wemet.at, tunkrank not aware of one another weren’t anticipated didn’t ask for permission don’t wait for each other just share storage and a convention

anyone can play

anyone can playsimply follow the convention

anyonecan play

no one gets to set the rules

people and applications can do what they want

other advantages conventions can be extended (without harm) biologically ﬁt conventions ﬂourish arriving late is ok

ﬁnal example tim o’reilly:“where is the web 2.0 address book?”

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conclusion: the real promise of the cloud is shared writable storage which enables 1. information storage in context (making it more useful and valuable) and 2. the evolution of asynchronous data protocols(so applications can communicate through data)

more information two oreilly radar articles: http://oreil.ly/fi-async http://j.mp/9mPuNB http://fluidinfo.com terry (@) fluidinfo (dot) com http://twitter.com/terrycojones

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