Above the Clouds whitepaper

Here's a whitepaper on Cloud Computing from the UC Berkeley RAD Lab. - just what everyone has been waiting for, a whitepaper on Cloud Computing.

In part this describes obstacles and opportunities. My personal favorite :

Obstacle #6 : Scalable Storage

Opportunity #6 : Invent Scalable Store

That's right, we finally have the go-ahead to Invent Scalable Store.

The paper gets better the more you read. Another great quote:

Google Search is effectively the dial tone of the Internet: if people went to Google for search and it wasn’t available, they would think the Internet was down