The characteristics of International cloud computing standardization

At present, the International http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13636.html "> Cloud computing standardization has the following three features:

1. ISO actively participates in the development of cloud computing standards

At present, international standards organizations are actively involved in the work of the relevant standards of cloud computing, including the establishment of a working group/theme Group or Joint working Group to develop the relevant standards of cloud computing. Traditional IT standards organizations or industry alliances have also joined the standard organization of cloud computing standardization.

2. Interoperability portability, data center, and security are the main directions for standardization

Today, many standard organizations have listed cloud interoperability portability, data center and security as 3 important standardization directions for cloud computing.

Similar to the interconnection between different operators in telecom networks today, the future cloud providers are bound to interconnect and interoperate, which is the necessary condition to establish a more reasonable market competition and cooperation. Interoperability between cloud platforms will facilitate further segmentation of the cloud industry chain and generate more flexible and diversified business forms. Interoperability creates the standard requirements for cloudy excuses, such as computing the interface between cloud and storage cloud, the interface between software cloud and infrastructure cloud, and so on. The business migration between cloud is the important basis of maintaining market order, avoiding business monopoly and user lock-in. The business migration between the cloud needs to define standardized business, resource, and data descriptions among providers of the same cloud computing business, which also creates a large number of standard requirements.

Traditional data center due to the previous limitations of the design of the computer room has the following characteristics: Long construction cycle, high cost, expansion and expansion of the difficulty, can not be transferred on demand and migration, geographical location and surrounding environment constraints, large resource consumption, with the development of cloud computing these shortcomings will become more prominent. The data center in the cloud computing era needs to address four key elements: full computing power, convenient network access, rapid expansion and on-demand allocation, and better energy saving and emission reduction. Accordingly, the corresponding standardization needs.

Security and privacy are at the top of the challenges of cloud computing development. Cloud security is considered to be a key issue in determining whether cloud computing can survive, and therefore naturally becomes the focus of standardization. Of course, the security problem needs to be solved from many angles, such as law, supervision, trust system, and standardization is only one aspect. From the point of view of technology, the security of Cloud brings the standardization demand to the cloud platform and client security, data encryption, supervision interface and so on.

3. Market leader's attitude towards standardization is becoming more and more active

Standardization is a technical means to avoid monopoly, so some cloud computing "pioneers" initially for the attitude of standardization is not positive.

At the end of March 2009, IBM launched a series of dozens of manufacturers and organizations, including Ibm,amd,emc,sun,sap,vmware, such as chip, storage, virtualization, software and so on, signed an "Open cloud computing Manifesto" to develop some principles for open cloud computing, To ensure the interoperability of future cloud computing.

In April 2009, with the support of many enterprises, DMTF set up the "Open cloud computing standard incubator", hoping to develop a set of technical specifications for IaaS.

All these cases show that the market leader's attitude towards standardization, as the market leaders, they certainly do not want the current monopoly situation is broken. However, the development of the market is unstoppable, the expansion of the market will need to give the future to the survival of the space, standardization, especially interoperability and business migration standardization is to make the market to open an important foundation. Therefore, the attitude of the market leader is also gradually taking place positive change. At present, Google is actively participating in the IETF for computer discussion, Salesforce became a member of CSA, Microsoft, Intel, etc. have become DMTF board members. All of these changes show that the importance of cloud computing standardization has become a consensus in the industry.

With the rapid development of cloud computing applications and the maturing of its technology, the international standardization organizations have already begun to pay attention to the standards of cloud computing, while other standards organizations in other areas have been focusing on cloud computing standards, and the cloud-computing provider giants have jointly set up a new standardization organization to focus on cloud computing standards. International standards organizations focus on the general and basic of cloud computing, interoperability and portability, security, cloud management and data center, where interoperability portability, data center, and security are the main directions of the standard.

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