I'm Cloud 2.0, and I'm Not Just a Data Center

Cloud service providers invest significant effort into designing, building, and empowering cloud infrastructures to deliver a growing number of services in a scalable and cost-efficient fashion. At the same time, technology advances are commoditizing small devices with powerful compute, storage, and communication capabilities at unprecedented scale. What if such devices could extend the boundaries of the traditional cloud model to form an even more flexible, resource-aware, and better-performing cloud? The author has termed this approach Cloud 2.0.