The next phase for cloud is coalescing public and private data centers across the globe into a ‘single infinitely powerful computer’ that is easy to access and use. IBM has a roadmap.
« We are well down the road of executing our vision of making the world’s cloud resources as easy to use as a single computer. When we do, we will finally realize the full revolutionary potential of the cloud. The ability to get what we need when we need it down to the millisecond with the click of a button. » That’s the word from Priya Nagpurkar, director of hybrid cloud platform for IBM Research. In a recent interview with SVP and Director of IBM Research Dario Gil. Nagpurkar explained how IBM Research is pioneering a serverless computing architecture that will transform the cloud into the world’s largest computer. Serverless computing will make this all possible opening access without the complications of backend provisioning and security management. There are data centers for the world’s top public clouds in hundreds of locations that span nearly every continent. « However, this only paints a portion of the picture, » says Gil. There are also a « massive number of private computing environments that exist in silos across the globe. The cloud has dramatically evolved over many years to what it is today, a massively distributed network of public and private data centers comprising zettabytes of computing power and data storage. » For all the progress of what’s happening on cloud, we have to « get to the point where we get the cloud to work as if it was a single infinitely powerful computer, » says Nagpurkar.
