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Stacey Higginbotham: Here Come the Specialty Clouds

Highlights:

• Some interesting applications of the cloud computing paradigm, including gaming and “virtual Blu-ray players”
• The concept of specialized hardware serving specialized cloud computing platforms
• Important challenges and barriers to adoption: achieving economies of scale to attain commodity pricing for specialized clouds, endpoint / consumer bandwidth constraints, and localizing cloud computing resources to overcome latency issues