It was interesting to see how the closely knit community of eComm already arrived in the Cloud. Of course, these are all people focusing on developing and running services around “Emerging Communication”. But for me the interesting thing to see is how application architectures change and are designed with the deep understanding of necessary interactions between Cloud layers.
I interviewed Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck, Chief Technologist at IBM (amongst many other things) on Wednesday morning. He had an inspiring view on how application architectures have to adjust to new interaction and transaction models, very timely. It made me understand the undercurrents and sociological background of this change much better.
In http://www.playoutintelligence.com/2009/09/cloud-economics-saas-paas-iaas/ I wrote about one way to abstract different layers of cloud beyond Service, Platform, and Computing. Most communication-centric services I have seen already provide stable and scalable solutions in the Network-as-a-Service layer as well as in the Relationship layer. Great examples are Ringio, Ribbit, and Rebelvox.
But the Augmented Reality sessions clearly showed the understanding of the Information Cloud on data and meta data – more than I could ever have imagined.
