Cloud Standards Summit and Areas for Standardization

[Bob Marcus]

     There is going to be a Cloud Standards Summit on July 13 in Virginia featuring leading Cloud standards groups. http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/GOV-WS/css/Program.htm

     The results are going to be reported to US government IT leaders at the NDU Cloud Computing Symposium on July 15 http://www.ndu.edu/irmc/ilss/ilss_CCagenda.html

      Part of this report will include a list of recommended areas for standardization. See the list below. Any suggestions for additional or modified standardizations would be valuable. Specifically any input from those working on the development, deployment, migration, or management of Cloud applications would be of special interest. Please forward this message to others who might be interested in supplying feedback. Thanks 

              •       Interfaces to IaaS (e.g. Compute, Storage)

•       PaaS formats for Cloud applications

–      Resource descriptions (Required, Available)

–      Service & SLA models

•       Management Frameworks

–      Governance and Policy Enforcement

–      Regulatory agreements (e.g. Data location and security)

–      SLA formats (e.g. Performance, Availability)

•       Portable component descriptions (e.g. VMs)

•       Data exchange formats (to and from Clouds)

•       Cloud Taxonomies and Reference Models