Larry Dennison, the MIT computer science and engineering Ph.D. who co-founded core router vendor Avici Systems and control-plane pure-play Soapstone Networks, is at it again. This time he's set his sights on the future operations support system - the one needed to support cloud computing and monetize third-party applications in an open-source environment. Though he isn't saying exactly which piece of the puzzle his new start-up, Lightwolf Technologies, will supply, he will say this: Cloud computing is bringing a paradigm shift toward usage-based, rather than capacity-based, accounting, as well as dynamic, quick-session allocation of networking, computing and storage infrastructure - all of which will require much more sophisticated provisioning, billing and performance-monitoring systems than are presently used.
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