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We’re about to transition from the cloud computing era to the “sky computing” era, according to a pair of distinguished computer science professors at University of California Berkeley, Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker. As the name suggests, sky computing is a layer above cloud platforms — and its goal is to enable interoperability between clouds.

To find out more about sky computing, I interviewed Professor Stoica (who’s also, by the way, a co-founder of Anyscale and Databricks).

The new paper by Stoica and Shenker lays out a vision for “a more commoditized version of cloud computing, which we call the Sky computing.”

Ion Stoica and his Berkeley colleagues were prescient about the future of cloud computing in 2009, and I think Stoica and Shenker have made a compelling case for utility cloud computing in the new paper.

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