Supercloud And Sky Computing : Future of Cloud Computing

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Nowdays we're are hearing about cloud computing,hybrid cloud and multi-cloud as well.

In addition to above now onwards we may hered "super cloud" and "sky computing" to the list of phrases that describe the next ten years of computing.

Even though it's hard to believe, given how common cloud computing is now, it's only been natural for the past ten years or so. But at the time, it changed the way people thought about IT networking and infrastructure.

In the simplest terms, it means giving users access to computer storage, processing power, and applications through the Internet so they don't have to buy, install, and maintain their hardware and software.

In that time, we've seen a multi-cloud rise, where businesses and organizations pick and choose services from different cloud providers, and hybrid cloud, where both cloud and on-premises solutions deliver infrastructure.

But technology is adancing exponentialy and recently, new terms like "supercloud" and "sky computing" have come up to describe what the next step in the development of "infrastructure as a service" might be.

What Are Supercloud and Sky Computing?

The term was actually first coined back in 2016, by a research group at Cornell University, you can read their definition, here: Supercloud (cornell.edu). The key paragraph is:

“Supercloud is a cloud architecture that enables application migration as a service across different availability zones or cloud providers. The Supercloud provides interfaces to allocate, migrate, and terminate resources such as virtual machines and storage and presents a homogeneous network to tie these resources together. The Supercloud can span across all major public cloud providers such as Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, and Rackspace etc., as well as private clouds. Supercloud users have the freedom to re-locate VMs to many data centers across the world, irrespective of owner and without having to implement complex re-configuration and state re-synchronization in their applications. Using the Supercloud, an application can easily offload from an overloaded data center to another one with a different infrastructure.”

i.e., the original “definition” was applied to an experimental implementation associated with VMs.

A recent and broad description was given by SiliconANGLE Analyst Dave Vellante, last year:

“We used the term supercloud to describe an abstraction layer that resides above and across hyperscale infrastructure, connects on-premises workloads and eventually stretches to the edge. Our premise is that supercloud goes beyond running services in native mode on each individual cloud. Rather, supercloud hides the underlying primitives and application programming interfaces of the respective cloud vendors and creates a new connection layer across locations.” (Source: Supercloud is becoming a thing – SiliconANGLE).

Sky Computing is an advance deployment model and future of cloud computing where multiple clouds are integrated to serve the business processes at one place. Sky Computing is an emerging computing model where resources from multiple cloud providers are leveraged to create large scale distributed virtual clusters. These clusters provide resources to execute scientific computations requiring large computational power. Establishing a sky computing system is challenging due to differences among providers in terms of hardware, resource management, connectivity and architecture. [

Reference :

1. https://www.eginnovations.com/blog/what-is-supercloud-what-to-consider-when-monitoring-and-observing-the-a-supercloud/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CSupercloud%20is%20a%20cloud%20architecture,availability%20zones%20or%20cloud%20providers.
2. https://ijarsct.co.in/Paper2035.pdf