Dr. Craig A. Lee, President, Open Grid Forum - Driving Coordination and Progress in Cloud Standards

1. Driving Coordination and
Progress in Cloud Standards
cloud-standards.org
Dr. Craig A. Lee
President, Open Grid Forum
NCOIC Plenary Meeting, September 21, 2009

2. 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
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3. 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

4. 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

5. Leading Organizations
Open Cloud Consortium
Courtesy Richard Soley, OMG

6. Federal Cloud Symposium
National Defense University, July 15

7. 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

8. A Positioning of Cloud Standards
Courtesy of Enrico Ronco, Telecom Italia

9. OGF OCCI
Open Cloud Computing Interface
 Commitments for three implementations
– OpenNebula, SLA@SOI, anonymous

10. DMTF OVF
Open Virtualization Format
 A multi-vendor format
enabling interoperability
VM 1 VM 2 VM 3
myApp.ovf
License ... Properties
import

11. SNIA CDMI
Cloud Data Mgmt Interface
Cloud Data
Management
Interface for
Cloud Storage
CDMI early
draft available

12. 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

13. 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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14. A General Process Model
Task A
Concept
Development
Task B
RFQ/CFP*
Development Stakeholders Help Manage
Task C
Selection &
Kick-off
SDOs Help Facilitate Task D
Develop &
Test
Task E
Clear Schedule, Deliverables Deploy &
and Project Responsibilities Persist
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15. 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
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16. 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

17. 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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18. Contact Us – Join Us
 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)