New Article: What If Users Cloud Specify Their Own SLAs?

On the surface, Infrastructure 2.0 seems to have very little value to the end-user. It is, after all, about collaboration at the infrastructure layer. It is under the covers, as it were, of the application blanket with which end-users actually interact. But it may end up that Infrastructure 2.0 will have a direct impact on the control the user has over the way in which applications are delivered. Which is to say they might one day have some. What this means is something along the lines of taking the "choose your download mirror" capability offered by popular download sites and cranking it up about six clicks on the dial. Yes, we're going to turn it up to eleven. First, let's lay out some options for these fictional (but very demanding) users...

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