# Unclouded vision *2011-01-01 — note* Paper on a vision for a semi-federated cloud for personal data at ICDCN. Working with Jon Crowcroft, [Richard Mortier](https://github.com/mor1), [Malte Schwarzkopf](https://cs.brown.edu/people/malte/), and Theodore Hong, we proposed the Droplets architecture as a middle ground between fully centralized cloud services and completely decentralized systems. The work contrasts these two extremes and shows how Droplets enables controlled trade-offs between the costs and benefits of each approach. We demonstrated three sample applications that substantially benefit from this flexibility, providing a more nuanced vision of cloud computing than the prevailing centralized model. Synopsis: Paper on Droplets architecture enabling controlled trade-offs between centralized cloud and fully decentralized personal data approaches at ICDCN. Words: 83 ## Related - [Unclouded vision](https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2011-icdcn-droplets) (paper, 2011-01-01) --- Canonical: https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2011-icdcn-droplets-1 Type: note License: CC BY 4.0 Tags: cloud, personal-data, privacy, distributed, systems