The status quo of standardization of cloud computing China's push to standardize construction of cloud computing

The current concept of cloud computing in the industry discussed in full swing, the newspaper articles on cloud computing are endless, in this year's China cloud computing Conference, many leaders, experts and scholars also called for the establishment of cloud computing standards, this time some people have begun to promote the standardization of cloud computing trip. This article will focus on the basic requirements of cloud computing standardization, International cloud computing standardization related organizations, groups and their contribution to the standards, and finally based on the current international Standardization of cloud computing in China to promote the standardization of cloud computing ideas and suggestions.

The main content of cloud computing standardization

Cloud computing standardization is the basic premise of cloud computing and the ultimate goal of real cloud computing. At present, many international and domestic organizations have begun to study and discuss the standardization of cloud computing, and are trying to gain a certain discourse right in the future development of cloud computing core technology. But we know that cloud computing standardization contains a wide range of content, from the standardization of Software Development, the standardization of Grid computing to the standardization of resource management interfaces. At the same time, the technology architecture of cloud computing is divided into different levels, from top to bottom, business logic layer, Application layer, distributed file and operating system layer, virtualization layer, hardware layer and data center infrastructure, as shown in the following illustration. To achieve standardization of cloud computing, it is theoretically necessary to achieve these five levels of standardization, such results will be very complex. To simplify the process of cloud computing standardization, we recognize that the basic goal of cloud computing standardization is to achieve cloud portability (portability), interoperability (interoperability), and security. That is, the standardization of cloud computing content locked to the most important and most urgent aspects.

In particular, the main elements that require the standardization of cloud computing are:
Cloud computing operates and integrates standards that encompass interoperability and integration interface standards between different clouds, such as private and public, public and public, and private and private clouds.
Cloud computing Service Interface standards and application development standards, mainly for cloud computing and business level exchange standards, from the business level how to invoke, use cloud services.
The interface standard between different levels of cloud computing, including the interface standards between the architecture layer, platform layer and application software layer.
Cloud Computing Services Directory management, portability standards for seamless migration between different clouds.
Cloud computing business metrics standards, cloud computing users improve asset utilization standards, resource optimization and performance optimization, evaluation performance price ratio standards.
Cloud computing architecture governance standards, including design, planning, architecture, modeling, deployment, management, monitoring, operations support, quality management, and service level agreements.
Cloud computing security and privacy standards, data integrity, usability, confidentiality, physical and logical standards.

10 international organizations that drive cloud computing standards

Most of the organizations that currently promote the standardization of cloud computing come from the United States, mainly:

1 American National Laboratory NIST (Nationalinstituteofstandardsandtechnology). NIST aims to provide technical guidance and promotion of technology standards for effective and safe application in government and industry areas, it presents the definition of cloud computing, the U.S. federal government's cloud architecture, security and deployment strategy, focusing on the U.S. federal government's cloud standards, cloud interface, Cheng application development interface, etc., see: http:// Csrc.nist.gov/groups/sns/cloud-computing/index.html, many articles, newspapers or books are defined as standard by NIST's cloud computing definition.

2) Structured information standard Propulsion organization OASIS (Organizationfortheadvancementofstructureinformationstandards) was founded in 1993, a non-profit federation organization, The objective is to promote the development, integration and application of open standards in the global information society. Oasis has great influence in the field of software development, and has submitted the famous XML and Web standards. By the end of August 2010, it had included 260 organizations, groups, universities, research institutes and companies from different countries, including IBM and Microsoft. Oasis-driven standards include access and identity policy security, format control and data input output content, directory pooling, directory and registry standards, and service-oriented architecture methodologies and models, network management and quality of service and interoperability. Oasis and International Electronic Technology Commission IEC (internationalelectrotechnicalcommission), ISO ( theinternationalorganizationforstandardization), International Telecommunication Union ITU (THEINTERNATIONALTELECOMMUNICATIONUNION) and EU economic Commissioners un/ece (Theunitednationseconomiccommissionforeurope) are closely linked and actively involved in the e-commerce memorandum of Understanding ( memorandumofunderstandingonelectronicbusiness), so Oasis has a semi-official nature, its Web site is: http://www.oasis-open.org/. China's Internet Information Center CNNIC, Shenzhou Digital Information System Co., Ltd. Digitalchina, Huawei Technology, Beijing University Pekinguniversity, etc. have joined the organization.

3 Distributed Management Task Group DMTF (Distributedmanagementtaskforce), the goal is to unite the IT industry together to develop, validate and promote system management standards, to help simplify management worldwide, reduce IT management costs, The current host operating system and hardware-level management interface specification from the DMTF standards, so the organization is a very influential group. DMTF recently proposed Openvirtualizationformat (OVF) 1.0, which prescribes the deployment and encapsulation standards for virtualized mirrors, and also from the July 2010 Cloud computing Workgroup CMWG ( Cloudmanagementworkinggroup) is also drafting an open cloud standard incubator (opencloudstandardincubator), developing cloud resource management protocols, packet formats and security management protocols, and publishing white papers on cloud interoperability and managing cloud architectures. DMTF Organization web site is: http://www.dmtf.org/, by the end of August 2010, a total of 160 companies and organizations from 43 countries, 4,000 active participants, board members are Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco, Intel, AMD, Oracle, Microsoft, EMC, CA, Citrix, VMware, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Broadcom 15 companies.

4 The Storage Industry Association SNIa (Storagenetworkindustryassociation) is a relatively early establishment of the storage factory neutral industry Association organization, the purpose is to lead the world-wide storage industry development, promotion standards, technology and training services, Enhance the organization's information management capabilities, its members include different vendors and users, and the core members of the voting power are Dell, IBM, NETAPP, EMC, Intel, Oracle, FUJITSU, JUNIPER, QLOGIC, HP, LSI, SYMANTEC, HITACHI, Microsoft, VMware, Huawei-symantec 15, other members have nearly hundred, from the composition of members can be seen, core members from the core of the storage vendors, so SNIa is the storage industry leader. In response to the rapid development of cloud computing SNIa set up a cloud computing team, and in April 2010 officially released CDMI1.0 (clouddatamanagementinterface), the purpose is to promote the storage-service cloud specification, unified cloud storage interface, Realize resource-oriented data storage access, expand different protocols and physical media. It is worth mentioning that the standard from the concept to the proposed only in less than a year.

5 The Open Grid forum OGF (opengridforum,http://www.ogf.org) is a community organization of more than 400 users, developers, and vendors from 40 countries to guide the standards and norms of network computing, and its gold members have Cybera, Fujitsu and Oracle, Silver members about 12 companies and organizations from Japan's Gridconsortiumjapan, CA and NetApp. The organization proposes OCCI1.0 (by Opencloudcomputinginterfaceworkinggroup), which aims to establish an interface standard solution for the architecture that serves the cloud, to implement the architecture cloud remote management, and to develop different tools to support deployment, configuration, Automatically expands, monitors, and defines cloud computing, storage, and networking services, and its team Web site http://www.occi-wg.org/provides some information. OGF members published a lot of data center for Grid computing, energy saving and consumption of the best practice white paper, the cloud Computing data Center building has a very good reference value.

6 The Cloud Security Alliance CSA (Cloudsecurityalliance), established in April 2009, aims to promote cloud security best practices and cloud security training, and to write key issues and recommendations for 15 strategic areas of cloud computing consumers and service providers http:// Www.cloudsecurityalliance.org, by the end of August 2010, there were 14 organizations including DMTF, OGF, Isaca, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Google, Novell, 55 companies, including CAs, Oracle, Symantec, RSA, McAfee, TrendMicro, and VMware, with a large membership and renowned large companies, are more influential in cloud computing security best practices.

7) Theopengroup is a manufacturer-neutral, technology-neutral consortium, designed to open standards and global interoperability, to achieve a borderless integrated flow of information within and between enterprises, with the aim of establishing a common understanding between consumers and suppliers, and the consensus content, including cloud computing, on how to secure, Reliable implementation of different scale of enterprise operations, reduce the cost of business operations, increase business scalability and agility, eliminate cloud products and services to the enterprise manufacturers lock. Opengroup Platinum members are Gemini, HP, IBM, Kingdee (Kingdee), ORACLE, SAP. Other members also have different cloud providers and end users, and the organization web site is http://www.opengroup.org/, Most of its members are ERP and consultancy firms, and have recently launched a series of excellent white papers on cloud computing business applications, cloud computing reference architectures, and cloud computing methods for ROI Computing, which is a good reference for Ceo/cfo/cio.

8 Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum CCIF (cloudcomputinginteroperabilityforum,http://www.cloudforum.org/) is an open, factory-neutral non-profit technology community organization, The goal is to build global cloud groups and ecosystems, discuss community consensus on cloud computing, explore emerging trends and reference structures, and help different organizations accelerate and apply cloud computing solutions and services. CCIF proposes a unified cloud interface UCI (Unifiedcloudinterface), which unifies the APIs of different clouds into a standard interface for interoperability, and proposes a resource description framework, RDF (Resourcedescriptionframework), Define the semantics, classification, and entity methods of the resource. The CCIF Forum's sponsors are Cisco, Intel, IBM, SUN, Appistry, RSA and other 14 companies.

9 The members of the Open Cloud Federation OCC (Opencloudconsortium) are made up of universities that focus on improving cloud performance, presenting an open framework for integration and cloud interoperability between different clouds, cloud reference metrics and open source cloud reference models, Management of Opencloudtestbed's experimental platform and Opensciencedatacloud's scientific research infrastructure, the Web site is: http://opencloudconsortium.org/, the main members of Cisco, MIT, NASA , Yahoo, northwesternuniversity, Universityofillinoisatchicago, etc.

10 In addition, Tmforum,http://www.tmforum.org, a non-profit organization, aims to lead service providers to provide the best it in the communications, media and cloud services markets, and to help industry build, exchange and benefit from digital services, Other members come from 700 organizations and companies in 195 countries, many of them from traditional telecom operators and equipment, and recently launched a cloud services strategy that expects the industry to overcome some resistance in cloud-based services to achieve cloud services growth.

Does China fit in or do it on its own?

From the front, there are at least 10 organizations that promote the development of cloud standardization, which can be said to be a good thing, so many people focus on and force to facilitate the early implementation of cloud computing, but also that the establishment of cloud computing standards is still in the early stages, different interest groups are trying to innovate, Hope to have a place in the future cloud computing standards. As can be seen, in these cutting-edge cloud computing standardization Research and Development Organization, our country's company and organization proportion is very few, only in Oasis, Opengroup, SNIa a very small number of companies or organizations involved. To promote the development of cloud computing standardization, our work centers are trying to bring China's cloud computing needs into the international standardization camp, rather than building China's own cloud computing standards, because the cloud itself is borderless, the standard should be borderless, of course, standards inside the research, promotion and application level has national boundaries. The first step in promoting the standardization of cloud computing is that our national universities and scientific research institutions should actively participate in the cloud computing organization established by the same nature, and study the basic technology of cloud computing, which is the core force of standard innovation in the long run. The second level is our country's industry association also participates in the International Industry Organization's standardization discussion and the research, represents the broad masses of small and medium cloud computing Organization's desire; the third level is that large technical companies should set up specialized standardization groups to participate in international companies, As respected innovation companies actively research and practice cloud computing standards, rather than doctrine and enjoyment, and these companies on the national standardization of Cloud computing is also the largest, well-funded, talented people, the results of research and with the first, second level of organizations to share.

Dell, as the initiator and promoter of cloud computing, has already joined the larger organization in the DMTF, SNIA, CSA Impact, advocating open, affordable, reliable cloud computing solutions that help organizations manage through intelligent infrastructure, simplify architecture management, Streamline application and workload management and intelligent data management to build an efficient enterprise environment, enhance enterprise operational efficiency, reduce enterprise operating costs.

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