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| Cloud Wars, Part I: Framing the Standardization in Cloud Computing |
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| Standards and Standardization Practices in Cloud Computing | |
| by Tuomas MT Nurmela & Alex Krikos | |
| This article frames the international cloud SDO environment and process, categorizes cloud standards, and provides an example of the use of categorization. | |
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| NIST-National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cloud Computing |
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| October 14 2011 |
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| NIST’s Role is to provide guidance to industry and government for the creation and management of relevant cloud computing standards allowing all parties to gain the maximum value from cloud computing.
NIST’s role in cloud computing is to promote the effective and secure use of the technology within government and industry by providing technical guidance and promoting standards. |
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| SAS 70 & Cloud Computing |
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| October 14 2011 |
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| The Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) has become the ubiquitous auditing report by which all cloud computing service providers are judged. So how did this financial auditing report become the standard by which we examine cloud service providers? How much can we trust this report as a true representation of the security controls in place? |
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| Cloud Computing Standards – Not This Year |
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| January 26 2011 |
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| It’s clear that end users of cloud computing would like to see true interoperability
I started out writing a blog about the state of cloud computing to review how things have evolved in the cloud space over the last year (2010 was a good year for cloud computing) but I got sidetracked thinking about how clouds are converging, or in reality, not converging.
It’s clear that end users of cloud computing would like to see true interoperability. Companies want the freedom to pick a cloud that meets their needs, without worrying that choices made today will cost them big in the future or lock them in. Interoperability would mean that a company could choose a cloud for a given workload, and if conditions change, they could opt to bring the workload back in-house or move to another cloud environment – without requiring a major engineering project or a shift to a different computing paradigm. |
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| Cloud Standards or Innovation – take your pick |
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| November 11 2010 |
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| Cloud Vendors and Customers alike seem to be confusing the maturity curve of Cloud and raising the Lack of Standards flag and preventing wider adoption. |
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| OpenStack: Will it Prevent the Cloud Mono Culture? |
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| August 24 2010 |
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| This article provides insights into evolution of cloud standards and how OpenStack can position itself to be the open source, open standards based alternative for proprietary stacks like Amazon, Microsoft etc. Randy Bias of CloudScaling.com shared his perspectives on where OpenStack is going.
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NCOIC Analyses Cloud Computing with SCOPE  |
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| February 24 2010 |
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| As an analysis tool, the Systems, Capabilities, Operations, Programs and Enterprise (SCOPE) model is used to characterize interoperability-relevant aspects of a system or capability in terms of a set of dimensions. Organized hierarchically, these dimensions (and possible sub-dimensions) represent specific aspects of a system or its surrounding environment. This process enables a quantitative and/or qualitative interoperability assessment of the target system or capability. With the development of a cloud interoperability best practice as a goal, the NCOIC CCWG is working to identify all significant cloud computing dimensions. |
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Cloud Computing Use Cases V3.0 |
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| February 23 2010 |
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| The Cloud Computing Use Case group brought together cloud consumers and cloud vendors to define common use case scenarios for cloud computing. The use case scenarios demonstrate the performance and economic benefits of cloud computing and are based on the needs of the widest possible range of consumers. The goal is to highlight the capabilities and requirements that need to be standardized in a cloud environment to ensure interoperability, ease of integration and portability. It must be possible to implement all of the use case described in this paper without closed, proprietary technologies. Cloud computing must evolve as an open environment, minimizing vendor lock-in and increasing customer choice. Version 3 has additional security scenarios, requirements and use cases. |
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| Cloud Federation and the Intercloud |
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| January 15 2010 |
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| There has been lots of discussion about the concept of the "Intercloud", a direction for cloud computing that is closely related to federation. The Intercloud refers to a mesh of clouds that are interconnected based on open standards to provide a universal environment for cloud computing. Like the name suggests, it's similar to the Internet model, where everything is federated in a ubiquitous, multiple-provider infrastructure. |
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| The Federated Cloud |
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| January 07 2010 |
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| Federation brings together different cloud flavors and internal resources so companies can select a computing environment on demand that makes sense for a particular workload. The notion of federation has been around since cloud computing began, but as a long-term vision rather than a working solution. Soon that gap is going to close. |
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| The OGF Open Cloud Computing Interface |
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| December 03 2009 |
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| An introduction to the OGF Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) standard. |
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Cloud Computing Use Cases Version 2.0 |
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| October 30 2009 |
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| The Cloud Computing Use Case group brought together cloud consumers and cloud vendors to define common use case scenarios for cloud computing. The use case scenarios demonstrate the performance and economic benefits of cloud computing and are based on the needs of the widest possible range of consumers.
The goal is to highlight the capabilities and requirements that need to be standardized in a cloud environment to ensure interoperability, ease of integration and portability. It must be possible to implement all of the use case described in this paper without closed, proprietary technologies. Cloud computing must evolve as an open environment, minimizing vendor lock-in and increasing customer choice.
The full list of contributors include:
Contributors: Dustin Amrhein, Patrick Anderson, Andrew de Andrade, Joe Armstrong, Ezhil Arasan B, Richard Bruklis, Ken Cameron, Reuven Cohen, Andrew Easton, Rodrigo Flores, Gaston Fourcade, Thomas Freund, Babak Hosseinzadeh, William Jay Huie, Pam Isom, Sam Johnston, Ravi Kulkarni, Anil Kunjunny, Thomas Lukasik, Gary Mazzaferro, Craig McClanahan, Walt Melo, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Dirk Nicol, Lisa Noon, Santosh Padhy, Greg Pfister, Thomas Plunkett, Ling Qian, Balu Ramachandran, Jason Reed, German Retana,
Dave Russell, Krishna Sankar, Alfonso Olias Sanz, Wil Sinclair, Erik Sliman, Patrick Stingley, Robert Syputa, Doug Tidwell, Kris Walker, Kurt Williams, John M Willis, Yutaka Sasaki, Eric Windisch and Fred Zappert. |
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| Cloud: Interoperability & Portability |
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| October 12 2009 |
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| The discussion about the difference between interoperability and portability isn't new by any means. In the context of Cloud, Portability is the ability to move an application or service from one cloud to another cloud, usually with minimal overhead, or no overhead. Interoperability is the ability of services to seamlessly communicate with each other. |
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| Is Application Portability Possible in the Cloud? |
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| October 08 2009 |
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| Companies are trying to get a handle on the costs involved in running data centers. This is one of the primary reasons that companies are looking to cloud computing. Like everything else in the complex world of computing, clouds solve some problems but they also cause the same type of lock-in problems that the industry has experienced for decades. |
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| Cloud Standards are Misunderstood |
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| September 29 2009 |
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| Create them now and stifle innovation or create them later when it's too late? That seems to be the breadth of the discussion on cloud standards today. Fortunately, the situation with cloud computing standards is not actually this muddy. In spite of the passionate arguments, the reality is that we need cloud standards both today and tomorrow. Here is an overview of the Cloud standards landscape. |
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Cloud Computing Interoperability and Standardization for the Telecommunications Industry |
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| September 22 2009 |
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| Grid and Cloud Computing Technology: Interoperability and Standardization for the Telecommunications Industry |
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| Driving Coordination and Progress in Cloud Standards |
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| September 22 2009 |
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| Driving Coordination and Progress in Cloud Standards |
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| Open Cloud Computing Interface - Use Cases and Requirements for a Cloud API v10 |
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| September 22 2009 |
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| Open Cloud Computing Interface - Use Cases and Requirements for a Cloud API v10 |
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| Cloud Computing Use Cases |
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| September 22 2009 |
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| Cloud Computing Use Cases |
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| A Roadmap for Cloud Standards |
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| September 15 2009 |
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| A Roadmap for Cloud Standards |
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| Cloud Cafe Canonical Cloud Talk With Simon Wardley: Part 2 |
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| September 09 2009 |
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| Cloud Computing Expert from Canonical, Simon Wardley, and Cloud Café's John Willis discuss Cloud Computing.
Part 2: They discuss the benefits and risks of Cloud Computing, how standards have to be based on the open source refence model, and much more. |
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| Open Cloud as a Set of Tools, Standards, and Community |
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| June 09 2011 |
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| The CTO at Rackspace, John Engates, discusses open cloud as a set of tools, standards, and community at the SIIA All About the Cloud Conference. |
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| Are Open APIs Enough to Prevent Lock-in? |
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| July 28 2010 |
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| Are Open APIs Enough to Prevent Lock-in? |
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| NASA CTO on Cloud Computing |
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| May 26 2010 |
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| The CTO of IT at NASA, Chris Kemp, discusses Nebula, open standards, innovation and more at the Gov 2.0 Expo. |
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| An Introduction to the Open Cloud Principals (OCP) |
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| October 07 2009 |
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| An Introduction to the Open Cloud Principals (OCP) |
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NCOIC Analyses Cloud Computing with SCOPE |
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| February 24 2010 |
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| As an analysis tool, the Systems, Capabilities, Operations, Programs and Enterprise (SCOPE) model is used to characterize interoperability-relevant aspects of a system or capability in terms of a set of dimensions. Organized hierarchically, these dimensions (and possible sub-dimensions) represent specific aspects of a system or its surrounding environment. This process enables a quantitative and/or qualitative interoperability assessment of the target system or capability. With the development of a cloud interoperability best practice as a goal, the NCOIC CCWG is working to identify all significant cloud computing dimensions. |
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Cloud Computing Use Cases V3.0 |
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| February 23 2010 |
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| The Cloud Computing Use Case group brought together cloud consumers and cloud vendors to define common use case scenarios for cloud computing. The use case scenarios demonstrate the performance and economic benefits of cloud computing and are based on the needs of the widest possible range of consumers. The goal is to highlight the capabilities and requirements that need to be standardized in a cloud environment to ensure interoperability, ease of integration and portability. It must be possible to implement all of the use case described in this paper without closed, proprietary technologies. Cloud computing must evolve as an open environment, minimizing vendor lock-in and increasing customer choice. Version 3 has additional security scenarios, requirements and use cases. |
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Cloud Computing Use Cases Version 2.0 |
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| October 30 2009 |
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| The Cloud Computing Use Case group brought together cloud consumers and cloud vendors to define common use case scenarios for cloud computing. The use case scenarios demonstrate the performance and economic benefits of cloud computing and are based on the needs of the widest possible range of consumers.
The goal is to highlight the capabilities and requirements that need to be standardized in a cloud environment to ensure interoperability, ease of integration and portability. It must be possible to implement all of the use case described in this paper without closed, proprietary technologies. Cloud computing must evolve as an open environment, minimizing vendor lock-in and increasing customer choice.
The full list of contributors include:
Contributors: Dustin Amrhein, Patrick Anderson, Andrew de Andrade, Joe Armstrong, Ezhil Arasan B, Richard Bruklis, Ken Cameron, Reuven Cohen, Andrew Easton, Rodrigo Flores, Gaston Fourcade, Thomas Freund, Babak Hosseinzadeh, William Jay Huie, Pam Isom, Sam Johnston, Ravi Kulkarni, Anil Kunjunny, Thomas Lukasik, Gary Mazzaferro, Craig McClanahan, Walt Melo, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Dirk Nicol, Lisa Noon, Santosh Padhy, Greg Pfister, Thomas Plunkett, Ling Qian, Balu Ramachandran, Jason Reed, German Retana,
Dave Russell, Krishna Sankar, Alfonso Olias Sanz, Wil Sinclair, Erik Sliman, Patrick Stingley, Robert Syputa, Doug Tidwell, Kris Walker, Kurt Williams, John M Willis, Yutaka Sasaki, Eric Windisch and Fred Zappert. |
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Cloud Computing Interoperability and Standardization for the Telecommunications Industry |
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| September 22 2009 |
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| Grid and Cloud Computing Technology: Interoperability and Standardization for the Telecommunications Industry |
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| Open Cloud Computing Interface - Use Cases and Requirements for a Cloud API v10 |
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| September 22 2009 |
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| Open Cloud Computing Interface - Use Cases and Requirements for a Cloud API v10 |
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Cloud Computing Use Cases |
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| July 31 2009 |
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| The Cloud Computing Use Case group brought together cloud consumers and cloud vendors to define common use case scenarios for cloud computing. The use case scenarios demonstrate the performance and economic benefits of cloud computing and are based on the needs of the widest possible range of consumers. The goal is to highlight the capabilities and requirements that need to be standardized in a cloud environment to ensure interoperability, ease of integration and portability. It must be possible to implement all of the use case described in this paper without closed, proprietary technologies. Cloud computing must evolve as an open environment, minimizing vendor lock-in and increasing customer choice. Contributors: Dustin Amrhein, IBM, Joe Armstrong, Ezhil Arasan B, Richard Bruklis, Reuven Cohen, Enomaly, Rodrigo Flores, Gaston Fourcade, Thomas Freund, William Jay Huie, Sam Johnston, Ravi Kulkarni, Anil Kunjunny, Gary Mazzaferro, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Dirk Nicol, Lisa Noon, Santosh Padhy, Balu Ramachandran, Jason Reed, German Retana, Dave Russell, Krishna Sankar, Patrick Stingley, Robert Syputa, Doug Tidwell, Kris Walker, Kurt Williams, John M Willis, Yutaka Sasaki, and Fred Zappert. |
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The Open Cloud Manifesto |
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| March 23 2009 |
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| This document is intended to initiate a conversation that will bring together the emerging cloud computing community (both cloud users and cloud providers) around a core set of principals. There is a belief that these core principals are rooted in the belief that cloud computing should be as open as all other IT technologies. |
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| Cloud Standards Coordination Overview and Contributing Organizations |
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| Cloud-standards.org is a Wiki site for Cloud Standards Coordination. The goal of the wiki is to document the activities of the various SDOs working on Cloud Standards. Cloud-standards.org is an initiative for editing and sharing a general cloud computing standardization positioning, in which more relevant cloud standardization initiatives can be seen and related. The first informal proposal of the positioning can be seen at cloud standards positioning. | ||||
| DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator |
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| DMTF's Open Cloud Standards Incubator will focus on standardizing interactions between cloud environments by developing cloud resource management protocols, packaging formats and security mechanisms to facilitate interoperability. DMTF is working with other SDOs on coordinating Cloud standardization efforts at cloud-standards.org. | ||||
| NEXOF |
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| The overall ambition of NESSI is to deliver NEXOF, a coherent and consistent open service framework leveraging research in the area of service-based systems to consolidate and trigger innovation in service-oriented economies. The Three Core Elements of NEXOFNESSI Open Reference Model: An open specification, which includes the conceptual model of the core elements that enable service-based ecosystems and their relationship as well as underlying rules, principles and policies which lead to interoperable implementations. Core elements include business dynamics, development environment and operational environment. NESSI Open Reference Architecture: Addressing definition and selection of innovative architectural styles and patterns based on the reference model. Ou .... | ||||
| SLA@SOI |
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| The ongoing transformation of a product-oriented economy towards a service-oriented economy has come to a critical point. IT-supported service provisioning has become of major relevance in all industries and domains. However, the nature of these setups is typically quite static because it requires significant effort to create service offers, to negotiate provisioning details with customers and to manage and control provided services. The research project SLA@SOI will provide a major milestone for the further evolution towards a service-oriented economy, where IT-based services can be flexibly traded as economic goods, i.e. under well defined and dependable conditions and with clearly associated costs. Eventually, this will allow for dynamic value networks that can be flexibly instantia .... | ||||
| The Open Grid Forum Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) |
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| The Open Grid Forum Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) working group will deliver an API specification for remote management of cloud computing infrastructure, allowing for the development of interoperable tools for common tasks including deployment, autonomic scaling and monitoring. The specification will be all high level functionality required for the life-cycle management of virtual machines (or workloads) running on virtualization technologies (or containers) supporting service elasticity. | ||||
| Will the Government Push Open Clouds Over the Goal Line? |
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| April 15 2011 - GigaOm | ||||
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| Cloud computing, digital signatures speed clinical trials |
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| April 15 2011 - Health Care IT News | ||||
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| Standards organisations to tackle cloud computing |
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| April 11 2011 - Rackspace UK | ||||
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| “Digital Oil” and Cloud Computing |
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| April 11 2011 - Forbes Blog | ||||
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| Belt, braces and external security standards |
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| April 08 2011 - The Register UK | ||||
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| IBM Takes Leading Role in Cloud Standards Group |
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| April 08 2011 - eWeek.com | ||||
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| IEEE's cloud portability project: A fool's errand? |
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| April 07 2011 - InfoWorld | ||||
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| IEEE aims to standardise cloud computing |
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| April 05 2011 - ITWire | ||||
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| IEEE Targets Cloud Interoperability Standards |
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| April 05 2011 - Information Week | ||||
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| EU Puts Standardization at Forefront of Cloud Computing |
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| March 23 2011 - PCWorld | ||||
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| Cloud CIO: 3 Private Cloud Use Case Scenarios |
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| March 23 2011 - Network World | ||||
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| Open Networking Foundation Pursues New Standards |
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| March 22 2011 - New York Times | ||||
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| EU's Kroes Says "Cloud Computing" Must Be Open, Competitive |
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| March 22 2011 - Wall Street Journal | ||||
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| Report: Firms Plan Alliance for Cloud Computing Standards |
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| March 22 2011 - Insurance Technology | ||||
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| Good insights from The Open Group Cloud Conference -- and its unconference brethren |
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| February 13 2011 - ZDNet | ||||
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| Cloud computing drives need for open standards to define and describe a new enterprise environment |
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| February 11 2011 - IT-Director | ||||
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| Cloud governance is about more than security |
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| February 10 2011 - Cnet News | ||||
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| NIST refines cloud computing definition |
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| February 09 2011 - Fierce Government IT | ||||
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| NIST report aims to help U.S. agencies deploy cloud apps |
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| February 03 2011 - ComputerWorld | ||||
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| Cloud Computing at NIST: Two New Draft Documents and a Wiki |
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| February 02 2011 - Newswise | ||||
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