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Fog Machine

Fog Machine™ (named because fog is like a cloud, on the ground) is a software product to provide cloud services to customers without a cloud service provider. The problem with the traditional cloud is that it requires a provider. Fog Machine™ would run cloud "nodes" in idle system resources on ordinary user's devices. This would be a peer to peer system in which each connected device would be a peer.

It would support standard cloud APIs (perhaps Cloud Foundry?) and it would be easy to port cloud apps to it off providers such as Google cloud, Azure, or AWS--or maybe it would be effortless for apps that were already portable through compliance with open standards.

We might use encryption for privacy, redundancy for reliability, and remuneration/incentive for resource consistency. The showstopper (critical assumption) is that the synergy would be sufficient to significantly surpass the overhead, and provide competitive performance for at least some types of cloud applications. (Maybe we could use Docker Swarm on the peers.)

How would we establish initial command and control without any central provider? Maybe we could look into using Tor.

Verified Author: Serafino Software™
Maturity:  Idea 
Type: Software Product
Date Claimed: 23 August 2017
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