Personal thoughts on virtual computing in OU...

1. Generic thoughts on “personal virtual compu4ng”.
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2. What do we need to know about what’s possible, and what we want to achieve, in
order to make sensible choices for providing services over the next 5-10 years?
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3. A possible useful dis4nc4on – “where” is the compu4ng happening?
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4. Note that this presenta4on is not interested in mul4-user services, per se. The focus
is on applica4ons or services that you can treat as if they were your own – so you can
destroy them, reinstall them, etc.
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17. Virtual workbenches offer mul4ple integrated services configured to work with each
other. The “closed composi4on” suggests that these should be standalone/self-
contained, rather than accessing shared services. (For example, in a shared service
model, users might access their own datasets stored on a mul4-user database server.
In the closed composi4on model, the database server would be bundled as part of
the workbench package and only be available within that context.)
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