What’s a Supercloud?

The concept of a supercloud is still evolving, reports Dave Vellante, but a working definition that grew out of the recent Supercloud 22 event states:

Supercloud is an emerging computing architecture that comprises a set of services which are abstracted from the underlying primitives of hyperscale clouds. We’re talking about services such as compute, storage, networking, security and other native tooling like machine learning and developer tools, to create a global system that spans more than one cloud.

In this article, Vellante explains the five essential properties of a supercloud (e.g., it has to run its services on more than one cloud) and looks at three specific deployment models. 

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