Posts Tagged ‘ standards ’

As the field of cloud computing has developed over the last few years, many people in the industry have recognized the need for clear and open standards that can help maintain an environment that gives us as much flexibility in the future as possible.  Standards work for cloud computing security is relatively mature, but work on standards that ensure interoperability and portability is not as far along. The work goes back as far as 2008 when I had the opportunity to help to start some of the first cloud computing standards activity that resulted in the launch of the DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator in early 2009. Lately, we’ve seen a lot of and Standards Development Organizations (SDO) that are also starting...

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Some new activity around cloud computing standards have occurred in the last month that I thought would be good to blog about. First of all we are all very excited to receive the news that OVF (Open Virtualization Format) specification has been adopted as an international standard ISO/IEC 17203 .  This a major milestone and will continue to be a key building block for workload portability between clouds. This specification was introduced to the industry four years ago and has received wide adoption and was even been recognized as one of the first virtualization/cloud standards adopted by ANSI last year as a US national standard. This standard is still emerging as new uses and additional features are to be added....

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I have seen several articles that have stated that there are no cloud standards yet so customers should not wait. I agree customers should not wait to start implementing clouds. Cloud computing has moved this year from hype to reality, so customers should not wait to take advantages of the efficiencies and cost savings that it can provide.   The part that troubles me is the statement that there are no cloud standards, so I would like to set the record straight.  There are standards that customers should consider before buying and implementing cloud computing today in their data centers and before they sign agreements with cloud service providers. These standards will provide the portability that customers need so that they don’t find themselves...

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Last week I had the opportunity to visit Tokyo, Japan and meet with a number of vendors and consumers of cloud computing along with analyst and press following the emergence of this new technology. It is clear to me that the interest in cloud computing and advancing of cloud standards is a global concern. Where ever I went there was great interest in the state of cloud standards and interoperability.One of the events I was able to participate in was hosted by an organization called the Global Inter-Cloud Technology Forum (GICTF) . This is a Japan-based organization which was established to provide insight into the need for cloud standards for cloud computing. In the short time they have been in existence they...

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