craig lee driving cloud progress final

Driving Coordination and

Progress in Cloud Standards

cloud-standards.org

Dr. Craig A. Lee

President, Open Grid Forum

NCOIC Plenary Meeting, September 21, 2009

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Why Standardize? Need for commonality and best practices across a

significant user community– Interoperability & Portability

– Reduce engineering costs

Technical Requirements– Feasible & appropriate to codify in the technical design

Marketplace Drivers– User community must have critical mass

– Standardization must be seen as “growing the market” for everybody!

Genuine standardization with wide-scale adoption will only occur when all of these conditions are met

How Do We Make This Happen?

Drive Coordination

– Stakeholders

– Vendors

– Standards Organizations

Drive Progress

– Identify key requirements/goals

– Plan key projects

– Provision with time, money & people

cloud-standards.org An informal group of Standards Development

Organizations (SDOs) collaborating to coordinate and communicate standards for cloud computing and storage– Wiki: cloud-standards.org

– Mailing List: groups.google.com/group/CloudStandards

Different SDOs bring different but complementary technologies & capabilities– Storage, execution models, deployment models, service level

agreements, security, authentication, privacy

All interested, committed persons and organizations with relevant technical skills can participate

A Little History– Enterprise Cloud Conference, Open Group, Feb. 3, San Diego

– SATCCI, OMG, March 23, Arlington/Crystal City

– Cloud Standards Summit, OMG, July 13, Arlington/Ballston

Leading Organizations

Open Cloud Consortium

Courtesy Richard Soley, OMG

Federal Cloud SymposiumNational Defense University, July 15

Standardization Areas Briefed

at Federal Cloud Symposium Security (e.g. authentication, authorization)

Interfaces to IaaS (e.g., compute, storage)

PaaS & deployment formats for Cloud applications– Resource descriptions (required, available)

– Service & SLA models

Management Frameworks– Governance and Policy Enforcement

– Regulatory agreements (e.g. data location and security)

– SLA formats (e.g. performance, availability)

Portable component descriptions (e.g. VM’s)

Data exchange formats (to and from Clouds)

Cloud Taxonomies and Reference Models

Courtesy Richard Soley, OMG

A Positioning of Cloud Standards

Courtesy of Enrico Ronco, Telecom Italia

OGF OCCIOpen Cloud Computing Interface

Commitments for three implementations

– OpenNebula, SLA@SOI, anonymous

DMTF OVFOpen Virtualization Format A multi-vendor format

enabling interoperability

myApp.ovf

License

VM 1

Properties

VM 2 VM 3

...

import

SNIA CDMICloud Data Mgmt Interface

CDMI early

draft available

Cloud Data

Management

Interface for

Cloud Storage

Example of Coordination

• Joint whitepaper

published this month by

OGF and SNIA

• Covers how OCCI and

CDMI are being designed

to work together

• Available on both OGF

and SNIA web sites

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Driving Progress

Build Critical Mass of Key Stakeholders

– Continual polling and coordination across

the community

Must Forge Agreement on:

– Clear Goals

– Clear Schedule (“time-box” the process)

– Clear Responsibilities

– Properly Provisioning the Effort

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A General Process Model

Develop &

Test

Task D

Selection &

Kick-off

Task C

RFQ/CFP*

Development

Task B

Concept

Development

Task A

Deploy &

Persist

Task E

Clear Schedule, Deliverables

and Project Responsibilities

SDOs Help Facilitate

Stakeholders Help Manage

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Return on Investment What are the “carrots” to get concrete

stakeholder engagement?– Get early influence in specification development,

early skills building, visibility, and opportunity for early market deployment of standards, but just as important…

– Return on Investment (ROI)

Investment– Time, Money & People

– Both Monetary and In-Kind (labor & materials)

Timely Connection to Concrete Results– Stakeholders benefit from collaboration

– Get more than they put in

A Proposal cloud-standards.org to organize a set

of open cloud demonstrations

Engage stakeholders on demo scenarios US Cloud Storefront

UK G-Cloud

Japanese Kasumigaseki Cloud

Identify testbed resources

Identify target demo venues

Build schedule appropriately

Provision money & people appropriately

Caveat: Every element here is critical

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Summary

cloud-standards.org formed to coordinate SDOs

Ongoing work on open cloud standards for

– APIs, formats, data, security, and more …

Process described that could be used to drive:

– Best common practices & standards

– Interoperability testing & compliance testing

– … anything that requires collaboration among stakeholders to drive progress

Major stakeholder engagement is critical to drive further progress

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Join:–cloud-standards.org

–CloudStandards@GoogleGroups.com

Contact:–Winston Bumpus (wbumpus at vmware.com)

–Mark Carlson (mark.carlson at sun.com)

–Craig Lee (lee at aero.org)

–Bob Marcus (robert.marcus at gmail.com)

–Nils Puhlmann (npuhlmann at cloudsecurityalliance.org)

–Richard Soley (soley at omg.org)

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