To live is to be part of an ecosystem able to enhance our ability to communicate, talk, write and read. We need to be able to move from one place to another, we need accountability, we need predictability, we need insurance, to feel secure, and we need trust links. Our ability to have success, to move forward and to develop projects and relationships is 100% dependent on our ecosystem.

To Cloud or not to Cloud was the question raised at the “CloudViews – Cloud Computing Conference 2009″ and to which the correct answer will always depend on our capability to develop an ecosystem with all their components.

Helping Cloud Computing achieve its main goal – transform IT platforms in elastic, highly available, fault tolerant, secure, and multi-tenant platforms. Allowing IT technicians to be able to shift the focus of their work from the technology complexity to their companies core business, will depends on our capability to build a true Computing ecosystem in the Cloud: encryption mechanisms, predictability and provision platforms, SLAs monitoring and agreements contracts, AAI, elastic networks, interoperability frameworks, schedule mechanisms, etc.

Please stay tunned and please book the 20th and 21st of May in your agenda…

For the past two months, although it has been very difficult to continue the writing, the CloudViews.Org has not stopped its work. As we promised in our ending notes on the CloudViews.Org Cloud Computing Conference 2009 the main subject for 2010 will be Interoperability, but before we start thinking on the layout of the new event we have to clarify some organizational issues. We want to use the base layout of 2009′s event but we have to articulate it with other projects that we are planning. All the projects will have as main goal to promote and help moving forward the Cloud Computing paradigm in an open and free way, but as I think all of you are able to imagine that is something not very easy to achieve.

On the writing side of CloudVIews.Org we already have some posts which are almost finished and ready to publish, but the subjects are so many and with the ideas flowing on the same path it’s becoming very hard to select the ones to finish first. If you want to continue your readings I leave here some of the sites and subjects that I’ve been occupied with and that have captured my attention:

• www.sakimura.org/en – great work by Nat, specially the one on OpenID TX
• samj.net – some excellent work done by Sam, although some times he is a little excessively verbose when expressing his thoughts ;)
• Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper
• perilsofparallel.blogspot.com- Greg Pfister always with great contributions on CLoud Computing Foruns
• www.idcommons.net
• www.equalsdrummond.name

So please stay tuned and as an appetizer here are some titles of next posts (not necessarily in this order):

• Moving forward on Cloud Computing – Say bye bye to your LAN.
• Entering the era of relations.
• Cloud Security – Are we really moving forward?
• Identity 2.0 – a simple (completed) mashup.