Expert BLOG: A comprehensive analysis of the current situation of cloud computing standardization

"Guide" has been a growing number of experts see the lack of cloud computing standards will virtually hinder people to accept cloud computing, this is mainly due to the cloud vendors to lock users of the concerns and the different cloud computing between the virtual machine and data migration helplessness.

A growing number of experts have seen that the lack of cloud computing standards will virtually hinder people's acceptance of cloud computing, largely because of concerns over cloud-vendor lock-in and the helplessness of virtual machines and data migrations between different cloud computing.

Today, only the cloud computing standard--open virtualization Format (OVF). It was launched by VMware to facilitate virtual machine mobility--but only its presence cannot fundamentally solve cloud computing interoperability problems.

What users need is a cloud application programming interface (API) that is like a network api,tcp/ip that enables and facilitates cloud computing interoperability across all cloud computing products and services. This will undoubtedly boost public confidence in public cloud computing, and users will be able to choose to leave their suppliers at any time. It will also eliminate the traditional notion that cloud computing is "easy to enter".

However, Forrester analyst James Staten says he believes the public cloud computing API is still in the future. In his view, the implementation of standards far beyond the current market reality: "There is no compelling reason for people to obey the public cloud computing API, not enough corporate users to build a passion for cloud computing."

At the moment, the organization is at full throttle to implement cloud computing standards

There are many organizations that support open standards, and some organizations develop guides and people who are interested in providing information to cloud computing. Here are some important information:

Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) is developing cloud computing interoperability and security standards. DTMF launched the Open Cloud Standards Incubator (OCSI) in 2009 to address the need for cloud computing for open management standards.

National Cato of Standards and Marvell (NIST) is committed to promoting U.S. innovation and industry competition, which strengthens economic security through more advanced metrology science, standards and technology.

Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) is a member-driven organization designed to develop reference examples, benchmarks, and standards for cloud computing.

Open Grid Forum (OGF) is an open community that drives the rapid development and application of distributed computing. OGF completed various tasks from building open communities, exploring trends, sharing best practices and forming standards for integration practices. In addition, OGF has established the open Cloud Computing Interface sharable Group to launch an open community, consensus-driven API for the cloud infrastructure.

Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has assumed responsibility for promoting the development of storage needs and technologies, global standards, and storage education.

Cloud Security Alliance (CSA, Cloud Security Alliance) unveiled a safe cloud computing guide. Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) is a vendor-neutral, open Community technology supporter and user who is committed to driving global cloud computing services.

There is also a wiki site for cloud standards coordination, which documents standards and guidelines for the cloud in various standards organizations.

The cloud computing standards available today

Numerous patents and open APIs have been proposed to provide interoperability between infrastructure and services (IaaS). As far as I know, the first and only approved cloud-oriented standard is OVF. It was DMTF for three years and was approved in September 2010.

The OVF development suite and distributed format for virtual machines (VMS) are available to users and to a number of independent platform vendors. It helps promote mobility, but it does not provide all the independence needed for cloud computing interoperability. OVF allows vendors and businesses to package VMS with applications and the operating system, and to invoke any other application and hardware on demand, which includes information about VM mirroring, such as the number of CPUs, the memory required, and the configuration of the network.

For another important api,vmware in September 2009 announced the submission of its Vcloud API to DMTF. The API is expected to coordinate the preparation, management and application of service guarantees that run on private and public cloud computing.

The Gogrid API is also presented to the OCCI Working Group of the Open Grid Forum. However, the result is largely due to the failure of the Gogrid API to achieve significant industry backups.

Oracle recently published the Oracle Cloud API on its Oracle technical receptacle (OTN, Oracle Technology Network) and submitted the API to DMTF Open Cloud in June 2010 Standards Incubator organization. The Oracle Cloud API is basically similar to the Sun Cloud API, with some improvements. But the submission program did not cause much concern in the IT community.

Red Hat submitted the Deltacloud API as a standard for cloud computing interoperability to DMTF in August 2010. This is an open API that can be used to migrate workloads between different private and public cloud vendors. Red Hat contributes deltacloud to the Apache Software Foundation (Apache Software Foundation) as a hatching project. Deltacloud attempts to abstract cloud vendors and cloud tools to help applications and developers, by simply invoking a simple API at the time of writing an application to get the required response, ignoring the background.

The Rackspace Cloud API has become an Open-source API and has been integrated into OpenStack. And finally, the Amazon EC2 API is seen by most as the de facto public cloud computing standard. As far as we know, it has not yet been submitted to any open standards organization, including DMTF.

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