Several institutions to promote the standardization of cloud Computing: China's discourse power

At present, there are more than 10 organizations in the world to promote the process of cloud standardization, different interest groups are trying to compete in the future cloud computing industry in the right to speak. The bad news for China is that in these leading cloud computing standardization organizations, China's enterprises or organizations are still very few.

Cloud computing, as a technological revolution initiated by it, is gradually growing into a new national strategic industry in the future. But the industry generally believe that the domestic cloud computing industry is still in its infancy, and there is no uniform industry standards, each of them is an important factor restricting the healthy development of cloud computing industry. IDC, a market consultancy, has reported that many of the terminology and technology interfaces associated with cloud computing, and the different technologies used by different companies, have led to a large number of data and services that cannot be transferred and shared across companies, limiting the scope of application services for cloud computing. The lack of top-level design, the construction of fragmented, difficult to play synergies and other issues, does not meet the cloud computing to maximize the sharing of resources, flexibility to use the characteristics.

Admittedly, cloud computing standardization is the basic premise of the real wide spread and application of cloud computing, there is no standard, cloud computing industry is difficult to get normative healthy development, it is difficult to form large-scale and industrialized cluster development. Many of the world's most important companies are building up the standardization of cloud computing, and in the future development of cloud computing industry to seek their own voice. Industry analysts believe that the main elements that need to be standardized for cloud computing include: cloud computing interoperability and integration standards that encompass the interface standards between different clouds, between private and public clouds, between public and public clouds, between private cloud and private cloud, and the service Interface standards and application development standards for cloud computing The interface standards between different levels of cloud computing, including interface standards between architecture layer, platform layer and application layer, cloud computing Services Directory management, portability standards for seamless migration between different clouds, cloud business metrics, cloud computing Architecture governance standards, cloud computing security and privacy standards.

International organizations to seize industry standards

Currently the market has Amazon EC2, EBS, Loadbalancing, Cloudwatch and other common public cloud standards, virtual machine open standard format has OVF, virtual machine engine has KVM, Xen and other open source products, encryption technology has RSA204 8-bit high-strength encryption algorithm.

More than 10 international organizations are pushing the process of cloud standardization, and different interest groups are trying to have a place in the future cloud computing standards. Various international standards organizations focus on cloud security, cloud storage, cloud interoperability, platform interface and so on.

Distributed Management Task Group DMTF:DMTF is committed to the effective management of distributed IT systems, and the DMTF standard makes it possible to interoperate across vendor systems, tools, and enterprise solutions. At present, the host operating system and hardware-level management interface specification from the DMTF standards, so the organization is a very influential group. DMTF The Open Virtualization Format1.0, which prescribes the deployment and encapsulation standards for virtualized mirrors, and the cloud computing workgroup CMWG under the organization is also drafting an open cloud standard incubator (open Cloud Standard). Develop cloud resource management protocols, packet formats, and security management protocols, and publish white papers on cloud interoperability and managing cloud architectures. DMTF also together with CSA to develop cloud safety standards. There are over 160 companies and organizations from 43 countries with board members from Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco, Intel, AMD, Oracle, Microsoft, EMC, CA, Citrix, VMware, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Broadcom 15 companies.

Structured Information standards promote organization of OASIS: The goal is to promote the development, integration and application of open standards in the global information society. Oasis has great influence in software development, submitting the name of the XML and Web services standards: Vinyl pages and xml.org. By the end of August 2010, it had included 260 organizations, groups, universities, research institutes and companies from different countries, including IBM and Microsoft. Become an international organization with more than 600 organizations and more than 5000 participants. China's Internet Information Center CNNIC, Shenzhou Digital Information System Co., Ltd., Huawei, Peking University and so on have joined the organization.

The storage Industry Association SNIa: The early establishment of an industry-neutral association of Storage manufacturers, its members include different vendors and users, core members are Dell, IBM, NETAPP, EMC, Intel, Oracle, FUJITSU, JUNIPER, QLOGIC, HP, LSI, SYMANTEC, HITACHI, Microsoft, VMware, Huawei-symantec 15, other members have nearly hundred, SNIa is the storage industry's leading organization. In response to the rapid development of cloud computing SNIa set up a cloud computing team, and published cloud data Management Interface, the purpose is to promote the storage-service cloud specification, the Unified cloud storage interface, the realization of resource-oriented data storage access, the expansion of different protocols and physical media. It includes reference model of SNIa cloud storage and CDMI Reference model based on this reference model. SNIa wants to provide the appropriate application interfaces for cloud storage and cloud management and to submit these standards to ANSI and ISO.

Open Grid Forum OGF: A community organization of more than 400 users, developers, and vendors from more than 40 countries to guide the standards and specifications of network computing, develop APIs to manage the cloud infrastructure, and create practical solutions that interact with the cloud infrastructure (IaaS). Members are Cybera, Fujitsu, Oracle, Grid Consortium Japan, CA, NetApp, Microsoft, Sun, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, HP, At&t, ebay and other companies and organizations. The organization presented OCCI, the purpose of this standard is to establish interface standard solutions, implement cloud remote management of architecture, develop different tools to support deployment, configuration, automatic expansion, monitoring and definition of cloud computing, storage and network services, and OGF members have published a number of best practices white paper on grid computing, energy saving and data center construction , it has very good reference value for cloud computing data center construction.

Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum CCIF: Nonprofit technology community organizations that aim to build global cloud groups and ecosystems, discuss cloud computing community consensus, explore emerging trends and reference structures, and help different organizations accelerate and apply cloud computing solutions and services. Establish a mutually agreed framework/terminology that enables the exchange of information between cloud platforms within a unified workspace, enabling cloud computing technology and related services to be applied to a wider range of industries. CCIF proposed the unified cloud interface UCI to unify the different cloud APIs into the standard interface to realize interoperation, also proposed the resource Description framework RDF, the definition resource semantics, the classification and the entity method. The CCIF Forum's sponsors are Cisco, Intel, IBM, SUN, Appistry, Thomson Reuters, RSA and other companies.

Cloud Security Alliance CSA: Promote cloud security best practices and cloud security training, write key issues and recommendations in 15 strategic areas for cloud computing consumers and service providers, promote best practices to provide security in cloud computing, and provide education based on cloud computing to help protect other forms of computing. Organization members include DMTF, OGF, Isaca, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Google, Novell, CA, Oracle, Symantec, RSA, McAfee, Trend Micro, Companies like VMware are more influential in cloud computing security best practices.

Open Cloud Alliance OCC: an open framework for integrating and cloud interoperability between different clouds, cloud reference metrics and open source cloud reference models, management of the Open Cloud testbed experimental platform and the scientific research infrastructure of open science Data Cloud, Develop cloud computing benchmarks and support cloud computing reference implementations, manage open cloud test platforms, improve cloud storage and computing performance across geographically heterogeneous data centers, and enable different entities to operate seamlessly together. The main members are Cisco, MIT, NASA, Yahoo and northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago and some other universities.

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