My presentation to TTI/Vanguard in San Diego, California, on 19 February 2009. The two-day event was exploring Cloud Computing, and my presentation looked specifically at the role of the Cloud in creating opportunities to expose, discover and exploit data across the Web.

1. Ahead in the Clouds, 18-19 February 2009
Toward the Data Cloud
Dr Paul Miller
The Cloud of Data
paul.miller@cloudofdata.com
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3. Getting Started
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4. Enterprise moving infrastructure to Cloud
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5. ...but why not data?
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6. ‘Security’ - reason or excuse?
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7. re-imagining the Semantic Web
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8. re-imagining the Semantic Web
“Stop hugging
your data”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2009
http://tr.im/timblvideo
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9. eg Thomson Reuters
but first…
- recap Cloud
- introduce ‘Semantic’
or Data Web
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10. take a step back
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11. take a step back
The Cloud
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12. Traditional 3 layer model - there are plenty of others!
Greg and Michael showed this yesterday, too.
Software/Application [as a Service]
(SaaS)
Platform [as a Service]
(PaaS)
Infrastructure [as a Service]
(IaaS)
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13. outsource raw infrastructure - avoid
significant CapEx
scale to meet demand - Eli Lilly, payroll
SaaS - IBM Blue Cloud
hybrid
PaaS
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
computers (Amazon EC2, Rackspace, GoGrid...)
storage (Amazon S3, MobileMe, Google Drive...)
Elasticity (Rightscale…)
Bandwidth (Limelight, Amazon CloudFront…)
Electricity
Cooling
etc.
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14. ‘does heavy lifting’
concentrate on your app’s USP
SaaS
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Salesforce force.com
Apprenda SaaSGrid
Google App Engine
Microsoft Azure
Appistry
Talis Platform
IaaS
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15. light weight applications, delivered over Web
mostly low-end disruptors for now...
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Google Apps, Zoho
Acrobat.com, iWork.com
Kashflow, Sage Live
WordPress.com
MobileMe
Salesforce.com
PaaS
IaaS
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16. data are at every level of the stack…
but more on that in a moment
SaaS
Data
PaaS
IaaS
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17. Rode Cloud meme in 2008.
Listen to our podcast.
http://tr.im/dzxm
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18. Recent perspective on opportunity
http://tr.im/gqot
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19. Gradual transition to the
Cloud saves money
Includes Private Clouds
But data in ghettos
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20. Gradual transition to the
Cloud saves money
Includes Private Clouds
But data in ghettos
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

21. Gradual transition to the
Cloud saves money
Includes Private Clouds
But data in ghettos
cloudofdata.com
Thursday, February 19, 2009

22. Gradual transition to the
Cloud saves money
Includes Private Clouds
But data in ghettos
cloudofdata.com
Thursday, February 19, 2009

23. Gradual transition to the
Cloud saves money
Includes Private Clouds
But data in ghettos
cloudofdata.com
Thursday, February 19, 2009

24. Gradual transition to the
Cloud saves money
Includes Private Clouds
But data in ghettos
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25. TimBL’s TED talk reminded me of this... Image © 2008, David Simonds
March 2008 Economist
Remarkably similar to - and different
from - Enterprise data in the Cloud?
cloudofdata.com www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10880936
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27. The Semantic Web
http://tr.im/flqo
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28. complex early vision
cloudofdata.com www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web
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29. complex early vision
http://tr.im/timbl
http://tr.im/hendler
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30. URI - 1994
XML - 1998
RDF - 1999/ 2004
OWL - 2004
SPARQL - 2008
Applications - 2007/8
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31. simple principles, pragmatically applied
cloudofdata.com linkeddata.org/
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32. reaches back to
TimBL’s original
vision of the
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Read/Write Web
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33. “the Web done
right”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2008
reaches back to
TimBL’s original
vision of the
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Read/Write Web
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34. cloudofdata.com www.opencalais.com/
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35. http://tr.im/pridor
http://tr.im/calais4
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36. Slide © 2009, Thomson Reuters
5
3 Which provides
Metadata
1 information and
returned to the other Linked
Unstructured user with keys Data pointers
Text
4
Keys provide
access to the Calais
Linked Data cloud
2
6
Calais extracts
To a range of open
entities, facts and
and partner Linked
events
data assets –
possibly including
including
Thomson Reuters
TR in the future
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37. Slide © 2009, Thomson Reuters
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38. NSF, JISC etc getting
to grips with massive
data sets
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39. Amazon - ‘public’ data free
online, avoiding net work
costs of loading data
cloudofdata.com aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/
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40. cut costs, mass produce, standardise -
create opportunities for growth
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41. cut costs, mass produce, standardise -
create opportunities for growth
Data as Commodity
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42. data is a cost
we treat all data as Core and confidential
most actually Context and a commodity
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Think Different!
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43. “from Data Centre
to data-centric”
JP Rangaswami, 2009
data is a cost
we treat all data as Core and confidential
most actually Context and a commodity
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Think Different!
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44. lots of closed doors
some hide monsters!
presumption is ‘No’
presumption should be ‘Yes’
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45. What if…
-crowdsourced address updates
-wisdom of crowds, like GoldCorp mining
data in Canada
-expose some commercial data, in return
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for benefits from competitor insight
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46. ‘The Data Exhaust’
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47. common to try to copyright data… or to
use a CC license to ‘do the right thing’.
Copyright does not apply, and as CC based
on copyright, CC doesn’t work either.
©
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48. common to try to copyright data… or to
use a CC license to ‘do the right thing’.
Copyright does not apply, and as CC based
on copyright, CC doesn’t work either.
X
©
does not apply
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49. Image for illustrative purposes.
I am not applying a CC0 license
to this presentation.
Contract Law works… or initiatives opendatacommons.org
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such as CC0 and Open Data Commons. wiki.creativecommons.org/CCZero
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51. Closing Thoughts
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52. cloudofdata.com
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53. most data ‘context’ not ‘core’
but we apply one size fits all thinking…
move from a presumption of ‘No’ to a presumption of ‘Yes’
data as commodity; can we let go?
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54. most data ‘context’ not ‘core’
but we apply one size fits all thinking…
move from a presumption of ‘No’ to a presumption of ‘Yes’
data as commodity; can we let go?
Semantic Web thinking lets us address data at Web scale
the primacy of the link
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55. please...
“Stop hugging
your data”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2009
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56. cloud of data
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The Cloud of Data
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57. credit Paul Miller, The Cloud of Data
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