The standardization of Cloud computing, China's discourse power worrying

Cloud computing as a technological revolution initiated by the IT industry, is gradually growing into a future national emerging strategic industries, is now showing a vigorous development momentum around the country. 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.

Undeniably, 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 and 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 preempt industry standards

There are already common public cloud standards for AmazonEC2, EBS, loadbalancing, Cloudwatch and so on in the market, the virtual machine open standard format has the OVF, the virtual machine engine has the KVM, Xen and other open source products, encryption technology has RSA2048 bit high strength encryption algorithm.

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

Distributed Management Task Group DMTF:DMTF Team is committed to the effective management of distributed IT systems, and DMTF standards make 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 proposed the OpenVirtualizationFormat1.0, which stipulates that the virtualThe deployment and encapsulation standards for mirroring, the group's cloud computing team, CMWG, is also working on 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 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 XML and Web standards: Coverpages 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.

Storage Industry Association SNIa: Established early-time storage manufacturer-neutral industry associations that include different vendors and users, with core members of 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 leader. In response to the rapid development of cloud computing SNIa set up a cloud computing team, and published Clouddatamanagementinterface, 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.

(Editor: Duqing first)