July 13, 2009
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Agenda: Cloud Standards Summit
July 13 at Westin Arlington Gateway in Virginia, VA
http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/GOV-WS/css/css.htm
Morning Session 9:30 - 12:00
9:30 Bob Marcus - Introduction and goals of the Summit
9:35 Peter Mell and Tim Grance (NIST) - NIST's perspective on Cloud Computing Standards Slides
10:05 Reuven Cohen (Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum): Report on May 6 Federal CIO Cloud Working Group Meeting including key concerns. Discussion of the Unified Cloud Interface (UCI) project Slides
Comment by Richard Soley: MDA versus Semantic Ontology?
10:35 Kevin Jackson (Dataline): Feedback from Federal CIO on Cloud Computing issues Slides
Vivek Kundra: My number one goal is to stop building siloed IT infrastrucutures in order to save money in the 2010 budget.
11:00 Mark Carlson (Cloud Standards Coordination): Description of new initiative. Link
General Discussion
12 noon Lunch
Afternoon Session 1:00 - 6:00
13:00 Winston Bumpus (Distributed Management Task Force): DMTF Standards: A Foundation for Managing Cloud Computing Environments Slides
13:30 Mark Carlson (SNIA): SNIA Cloud Storage Reference Model and Standards Slides
14:00 Robert Grossman (Open Cloud Consortium): Open Cloud Consortium: Update on Recent Activities including Benchmarks and Interoperability Slides
14:45 Craig Lee (Open Grid Forum): Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) for portability and interoperability across Clouds Slides
15:15 Nils Puhlmann (Cloud Security Alliance): Best Practices for Security in Cloud Computing Slides
15:45 Douglas Johnson (OASIS): Cloud Computing Standards: Status, Needs and Prospects Slides
16:15 Jim Warner (TM Forum): Telecom initiative on Cloud Computing Slides
16:45 James Odell (OMG SOA SIG Co-chair, CSC): OMG Cloud Computing Standards: Building a Multi-View Specification Slides
17:15 Prepare report for NDU Cloud Computing Symposium on July 15 Richard Soley Slides
Critical Issues for Government Cloud Computing
From the Open Cloud Manifesto (http://www.opencloudmanifesto.org/opencloudmanifesto1.htm), five challenges and barriers to Cloud Computing include security, data and application interoperability, data and application portability, governance and management, and metering and monitoring. The issues involving mobile networks must also be addressed for government field operations.
1. Security
Are data, applications, and resources in the Cloud secured from attacks?
Security and Governance - Cloud Security Alliance
2. Data and Application Interoperability
Are data, applications and resources accessible across Clouds at runtime?
Web-based Integration - Multiple organizations (e.g. W3C, OASIS, OAuth, OpenID)
http://w3c.org, http://oasis-open.org , http://oauth.net/, http://openid.net/
Interoperability Protocols across Clouds - OCC
http://www.opencloudconsortium.org
Interoperable Protocols - IETF
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/lisp/current/msg00413.html
Data Sharing across Clouds - OCC and OASIS
http://www.opencloudconsortium.org/
http://www.oasis-opencsa.org/sdo
Interoperability metaAPIs - Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (Unified Cloud Interface)
3. Data and Application Portability
Can data, application, and resources be moved across Clouds at deployment time?
Portability APIs -OGF WG (Open Cloud Computing Interface)
http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/occi-wg
Possible Metamodel for Cloud application configuration and deployment - OMG
Cloud Storage Interfaces - SNIA
Portability for VMs - DMTF
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/published_documents/DSP0243_1.0.0.pdf
4. Governance and Management
Can policies about data, application, and resources be enforced across Clouds?
Management of Virtualized Resources - DMTF
http://www.dmtf.org/initiatives/vman_initiative/
Open Cloud Standards Incubator - DMTF
http://www.dmtf.org/about/cloud-incubator
SLAs -at SOI
Compliance - Industry organizations (e.g. HIPAA, PCI)
5. Metering and Monitoring
Can activities be tracked, analyzed, and processed across Clouds?
Open Source Monitoring Tools
http://www.heliosdev.org/open-source
Project Zeppelin - Open Source Cloud Monitoring from Cittio
April 29, 2009
To Standards Groups Representatives:
The Cloud Standards Summit on July 13 is shaping up to be a major event. Preliminary acceptances have been received from all of the invited standards groups. See the list below. The Federal CIOs Cloud Computing WG will be invited to send representatives to provide feedback and attend the Summit. One of the next steps should be developing a list of standards group activities that can be distributed before the Summit. To stimulate responses, I created the attached initial draft outline mapping key concerns to standards activities. A brief paragraph describing the future Cloud standardization goals of your organization will be very useful for coordinating presentations and gathering feedback. Thanks.
Bob Marcus
Cloud Standards Groups Summit Paricipants:
Open Grid Forum's Open Cloud Computing Initiative
Cloud Security Alliance
Open Cloud Consortium
Storage Networking Industry Association
Object Management Group
Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
Network Centric Operations Industry Consoritum (preliminary)
Distributed Management Task Force's Open Cloud Standards Incubator (preliminary)
Cloud Computing Standards Key Issues and Standards Groups (Draft Outline):
Note: This is a rough first cut at an outline which needs to be fleshed out with more detailed information
From the Open Cloud Manifesto (http://www.opencloudmanifesto.org/opencloudmanifesto1.htm), five challenges and barriers to Cloud Computing include security, data and application interoperability, data and application portability, governance and management, and metering and monitoring.
1. Security
Security and Governance - Cloud Security Alliance
http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance
2. Data and Application Interoperability
Web-based Integration - Multiple organizations (e.g. W3C, OASIS, OAuth, OpenID)
http://w3c.org, http://oasis-open.org , http://oauth.net/, http://openid.net/
Interoperability Protocols across Clouds - OCC
http://www.opencloudconsortium.org
Interoperable Protocols -IETF
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/lisp/current/msg00413.html
Data Sharing across Clouds - OCC
http://www.opencloudconsortium.org/
Interoperability metaAPIs - Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (Unified Cloud Interface)
http://code.google.com/p/unifiedcloud/
3. Data and Application Portability
Portability APIs -OGF WG (Open Cloud Computing Interface)
http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/occi-wg
Possible Metamodel for Cloud application configuration and deployment - OMG
http://www.omg.org
Cloud Storage Interfaces -SNIA
http://www.SNIA.org
Portability for VMs - DMTF
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/published_documents/DSP0243_1.0.0.pdf
4. Governance and Management
Management of Virtualized Resources - DMTF
http://www.dmtf.org/initiatives/vman_initiative/
Open Cloud Standards Incubator - DMTF
http://www.dmtf.org/about/cloud-incubatorSLAs -SLA at SOI
http://sla-at-soi.eu/
Compliance - Industry organizations (e.g. HIPAA, PCI)
http://www.hipaa.org/
5. Metering and Monitoring
Open Source Monitoring Tools
http://www.heliosdev.org/open-source
Project Zeppelin - Open Source Cloud Monitoring from Cittio
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zeppelin/
6. Mobile Clients
Tactical Networks - NCOIC
https://www.ncoic.org
April 16, 2009
Following the Cloud Interoperability Workshop on March 23, several of the standards groups expressed an interest in a follow-on "Coordination Summit". The OMG has offered to host a Summit at its July 13 "Specification for Government" Workshop in Virginia. I think the Summit should be broadened beyond the March Workshop to include more government participation and other standards groups. I believe that the theme should be "Coordinating Activities to Remove Government Cloud Computing Roadblocks".
Potential government users of Cloud Computing could supply in advance the key concerns that could delay Cloud deployments. These concerns will probably include areas such as security, governance, SLAs, portability/interoperabilty across Clouds, compliance, legacy systems integration, SOA API interfaces, and virtualized resource management. At the Summit, standards groups will be asked to describe their future work on Cloud standards and how it maps to the government concerns. Government attendees will be encouraged to provide feedback. Companies working on Cloud Computing will be invited to be part of the audience and provide their perspective on the concerns and proposed activities.
Let me know your feedback on the Summit and the proposed theme. Any suggestions on how to make the Summit more useful to government IT planning would be valuable. Thanks.
Bob Marcus
P.S. Possible role for Federal Government in setting directions for Cloud Computing http://www.scribd.com/doc/12704194/Federal-Open-Cloud-Computing-Initiative-FOCI
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