Ten organizations compete for cloud computing standards How does China participate?

At present, the concept of cloud computing is in full swing in the industry. The newspaper articles on cloud computing are also emerging one after another. At this year's China Cloud Computing Conference, many leaders, experts and scholars also called for and called for the establishment of cloud computing standards. At this time, there are some knowledge. The men have begun a journey to promote cloud computing standardization. This article will focus on the basic needs of cloud computing standardization, the organizations and groups related to cloud computing standardization in the world, and their promotion and contribution to standards. Finally, based on the current international situation of cloud computing standardization, the paper proposes how to promote cloud computing standardization in China. Suggest.

The main content of cloud computing standardization

Cloud computing standardization is the basic premise of cloud computing promotion and application and the ultimate goal of true cloud computing. At present, many international and domestic organizations have begun to study and discuss cloud computing standardization, and they all try to gain a certain right to speak in the future development of cloud computing core technology. But we know that cloud computing standardization covers a wide range of topics, from standardization of software development to standardization of grid computing to standardization of resource management interfaces. At the same time, the technical 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 figure. To achieve standardization of cloud computing, it is theoretically necessary to achieve standardization at these five levels, and the results will be very complicated. In order to simplify the process of cloud computing standardization, we recognize that the basic goal of cloud computing standardization is to achieve cloud portability, interoperability and security, which is to lock the content of cloud computing standardization. To the most important and urgent aspects.

The road to the development of cloud computing standardization

Specifically, the main contents that require cloud computing standardization are:

1. Cloud computing interoperability and integration standards cover interoperability and integration interface standards between different clouds, such as between private and public clouds, between public and public clouds, between private and private clouds.

2. Cloud computing service interface standards and application development standards are mainly for cloud computing and business-level exchange standards, how to invoke and use cloud services from the business level.

3. Interface standards between different levels of cloud computing, including interface standards between the architecture layer, platform layer, and application software layer.

4. Cloud computing service catalog management, portability standards for seamless migration between different clouds.

5. Cloud computing business metrics standards, cloud computing users improve asset utilization standards, resource optimization and performance optimization, evaluation of performance price ratio standards.

6. Cloud computing architecture governance standards, including standards for design, planning, architecture, modeling, deployment, management, monitoring, operational support, quality management, and service level agreements.

7. Cloud computing security and privacy standards, data integrity, availability, confidentiality, physical and logical standards.

10 international organizations promoting cloud computing standards

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

1) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST aims to provide technical guidance and promote technical standards for effective and secure application in government and industry. It proposes a definition of cloud computing, targeting the US federal government's cloud architecture, security and deployment strategies, focusing on the US federal government's cloud standards, Cloud interface, cloud integration and cloud application development interfaces are available at http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html. Many articles, newspapers or books are defined by NIST cloud computing. As a standard definition.

2) Organizational Information Standards Organization OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structure Information Standards) was established in 1993 as a non-profit association organization with the goal of promoting the development, integration and application of open standards in the global information society. OASIS has a strong influence in the field of software development, submitting the well-known XML and Web Services standards. By the end of August 2010, there were 260 organizations, groups, universities, research institutes and companies from different countries such as IBM and Microsoft. OASIS-driven standards include access and identity policy security, format control and data input and output content, directory pools, directory and registry standards, and service-oriented architecture methods and models, network management and quality of service and interoperability. OASIS and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the European Economic Commissioner UN/ECE (the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) There is a close relationship and active participation in the Memorandum of Understanding on Electronic Business, so OASIS has a semi-official nature at http://www.oasis-open.org/. China's Internet Information Center CNNIC, Digital China Information System Co., Ltd. Digital China, Huawei Technologies Huawei, Peking University Peking University, etc. have joined the organization.

3) Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the goal is to jointly develop, verify and promote system management standards in collaboration with the entire IT industry, helping to simplify management and reduce IT management costs worldwide. And the hardware-level management interface specification comes from the DMTF standard, so the organization is a very influential group. The DMTF recently proposed Open Virtualization Format (OVF) 1.0, which specifies the deployment and packaging standards for virtualized images. In addition, from July 2010, the cloud computing working group CMWG (Cloud Management Working Group) is still drafting an open cloud standard incubator. (Open Cloud Standard Incubator), which develops cloud resource management protocols, packet formats and security management protocols, and publishes a white paper on cloud interoperability and cloud management. The DMTF organization website is: http://www.dmtf.org/. By the end of August 2010, there were 160 companies and organizations from 43 countries, 4,000 active participants, and board members including Dell, HP, IBM, Fifteen companies including Cisco, Intel, AMD, Oracle, Microsoft, EMC, CA, Citrix, VMware, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and Broadcom.

4) Storage Industry Association (SNIA) is a relatively short-established storage manufacturer neutral industry association organization, which aims to lead the worldwide storage industry development, promotion of standards, technology and training services, and enhance the organization's information management. Capabilities, its members include different vendors and users, and voting core members are Dell, IBM, NetApp, EMC, Intel, Oracle, FUJITSU, JUNIPER, QLOGIC, HP, LSI, SYMANTEC, HITACHI, Microsoft, VMware, Huawei - Symantec has fifteen other members, and there are more than one hundred members. From the members' composition, the core members are from the core storage vendors, so SNIA is the leading organization in the storage industry. For the rapid development of cloud computing, SNIA established a cloud computing working group, and officially released CDMI 1.0 (Cloud Data Management Interface) in April 2010, with the aim of promoting storage-as-a-service cloud specifications, unifying cloud storage interfaces, and implementing resource-oriented interfaces. Data storage access, extending different protocols and physical media. It is worth mentioning that the standard took less than a year from concept to presentation.

5) The Open Grid Forum (http://www.ogf.org) is a community organization of more than 400 users, developers and vendors from 40 countries, aiming to guide the standards of network computing and The standard, its gold medal members are CYBERA, FUJITSU and Oracle, and the silver members are related to 12 companies and organizations such as Grid Consortium Japan, CA and NetApp from Japan. The organization proposes OCCI 1.0 (responsible by the Open Cloud Computing Interface Working Group), which aims to establish an interface-standard solution for the architecture-as-a-service cloud, implement remote management of the architecture cloud, and develop different tools to support deployment, configuration, and automatic scaling. Monitoring and definition of cloud computing, storage and networking services is available on the Working Group website at http://www.occi-wg.org/. OGF members have published a number of white papers on best practices for data center construction for grid computing, energy conservation and consumption reduction, and have a very good reference value for cloud computing data center construction.

6) Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), established in April 2009, aims to promote cloud security best practices and cloud security training, and writes key issues in 15 strategic areas for cloud computing consumers and service providers. And suggestions, http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org, by the end of August 2010, the organization has 14 organizations including DMTF, OGF, ISACA, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Google, Novell, CA, Oracle. Fifty-five companies, such as Symantec, RSA, McAfee, Trend Micro, and VMware, have many members and are well-known big companies, so they are more influential in cloud computing security best practices.

7) The Open Group is a vendor-neutral, technology-neutral federation that aims to open a standard and global interoperability based on a seamless, integrated information flow between the enterprise and the enterprise, with the goal of building consumer and supply. Consensus between businesses, including IT technology, including cloud computing, how to safely and reliably implement business operations of different scales, reduce the cost of business operations, increase business scalability and agility, and eliminate cloud products and services. The lock on the manufacturer of the enterprise. Open Group Platinum members include Capgemini, HP, IBM, Kingdee (Kingdee), ORACLE, SAP. Other members have different cloud computing providers and end users. The organization's website is http://www.opengroup.org/ Most of the members are ERP and consulting companies. Recently, they have also launched a series of excellent white papers on cloud computing business application scenarios, cloud computing reference architecture, and cloud computing investment return calculation methods. It is a good reference for CEO/CFO/CIO. .

8) The Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (http://www.cloudforum.org/) is an open, vendor-neutral, non-profit technology community organization whose goal is to establish global cloud groups and ecosystems. Cloud community consensus, exploring emerging trends and reference structures to help different organizations accelerate and apply cloud computing solutions and services. CCIF proposed the Unified Cloud Interface (UCI), which unified the APIs of different clouds into standard interfaces for interoperability. It also proposed the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which defines the semantics, classification and entity methods of resources. The sponsors of the CCIF Forum include 14 companies including Cisco, Intel, IBM, SUN, Appistry, and RSA.

9) Open Cloud Consortium members are composed of universities that focus on improving cloud performance. They propose open frameworks for cloud integration and cloud operations, cloud computing reference indicators and open source cloud reference models. The experimental platform of Open Cloud Testbed and the scientific research infrastructure of Open Science Data Cloud are available at http://opencloudconsortium.org/, and the main members are Cisco, MIT, NASA, Yahoo, Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago, etc. .

10) In addition to TM Forum, http://www.tmforum.org, a non-profit organization that aims to lead service providers to provide the best IT in the communications, media and cloud services markets, helping the industry build, exchange and benefit from Digital services, other members from 700 organizations and companies in 195 countries, many members from traditional telecom operators and equipment vendors, and recently launched a cloud service strategy, expecting the industry to overcome some resistance in the cloud-based market to achieve the cloud Service growth.

Is China integrated into it or is it a self-reliant portal?

From the front, at least ten organizations have promoted the development of cloud standardization. This can be said to be a good thing. So many people pay attention to the power and promote the early realization of cloud computing standardization, and also explain the establishment of cloud computing standards.