1. Dr. Jochen Friedrich – Technical Relations Executive
13 December 2012
DIGITALEUROPE Workshop - “Standards and Cloud: The Quest for a Magic Formula”
Rethinking the Approach towards
Standards for Cloud
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2. IBM Presentation Template Full Version
Perspectives on the Context of Cloud and Standardisation
Customers
Customers Policy
Policy
Efficiency and Flexibility
Efficiency and Flexibility Wide adoption of Cloud
Wide adoption of Cloud
Certainty, Openness
Certainty, Openness Innovation
Innovation
Trust and Security
Trust and Security Growth
Growth
Private / /Public
Private Public Open Standards Efficiency
Efficiency
Interoperability
Portability
Promote competition
Prevent vendor lock-in
Ensure trust
Business Opportunity
Business Opportunity
Private / /Public Clouds
Private Public Clouds Business Opportunity
Business Opportunity
Flexibility
Flexibility Promote technologies
Promote technologies
Fair competition, Global scope
Fair competition, Global scope Adoption of standards
Adoption of standards
Vendors
Vendors Standards Bodies
Standards Bodies
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3. EU Commission Communication on Cloud
“The Commission therefore aims at enabling and facilitating faster
adoption of cloud computing throughout all sectors of the economy
which can cut ICT costs, and when combined with new digital
business practices, can boost productivity, growth and jobs” (p. 2)
“A jungle of standards generates confusion by, on one hand, a
proliferation of standards and on the other hand a lack of certainty as
to which standards provide adequate levels of interoperability of data
formats to permit portability; the extent to which safeguards are in
place for the protection of personal data; or the problem of the data
breaches and the protection against cyberattacks.” (pp. 5-6)
Key action 1: Cutting through the jungle of standards
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4. Key action 1: Cutting through the jungle of standards
■ Promote trusted and reliable cloud offerings by tasking ETSI to coordinate with
stakeholders in a transparent and open way to identify by 2013 a detailed map of the
necessary standards (inter alia for security, interoperability, data portability and
reversibility).
■ Enhance trust in cloud computing services by recognising at EU-level technical
specifications in the field of information and communication technologies for the protection
of personal information in accordance with the new Regulation on European
Standardisation.
■ Work with the support of ENISA and other relevant bodies to assist the development of
EU-wide voluntary certification schemes in the area of cloud computing (including as
regards data protection) and establish a list of such schemes by 2014.
■ Address the environmental challenges of increased cloud use by agreeing, with industry,
harmonised metrics for the energy consumption, water consumption and carbon
emissions of cloud services by 2014.
(pp. 10 – 11; highlighting added)
Development of “Cloud standards roadmap”
ETSI to do coordination work, not standards development
Comparison to work accomplished by NIST
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5. The task ETSI has been given is about
coordination between stakeholders.
It must be done in a highly open and
transparent process allowing all
stakeholders to participate in the activity
without any encumbrances.
It is not about developing standards but
about identifying relevant standards
necessary in the context of Cloud.
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6. The Global Standards Environment for Cloud
➔ Cloud is not aanew technology but aacombination of technologies
➔ Cloud is not new technology but combination of technologies
➔ Cloud does not require massive development of new standards
➔ Cloud does not require massive development of new standards
➔ Many standards are already available for integration in the context of
➔ Many standards are already available for integration in the context of
Cloud architectures, e.g. general internet/web standards
Cloud architectures, e.g. general internet/web standards
➔ Development of additional standards is under way globally
➔ Development of additional standards is under way globally
Some examples of key organisations involved in global Cloud standardisation:
Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface
DMTF CIMI, Cloud Audit, OVF Open Virtualization Format
IETF OAuth Web authorization protocol
ISO/IEC JTC 1 CCRA Cloud Computing Reference Architecture
Topology & Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications
OASIS TOSCA, IDCloud Identity in the Cloud
The Open Group Reference Architecture
SNIA CDMI Cloud Data Management Interface
W3C Linked Data Data format standard
Other organisations are involved in sector/domain specific standardisation work, e.g. ETSI and
ITU on telecommunications and radio related issues
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7. Cloud is primarily about integrating
technologies and combining different
standards.
Global standards are key for Cloud
technologies and global market success.
Most of the required standards have been
available for a while
Activities to close functional gaps are well
under way in global organisations.
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8. Rethinking the Approach towards Standards for the Cloud
Innovative Practical
Open standards for cloud: Business success is not
Invention? Reinvention? theoretical. Practical
Cloud computing is cloud computing is grass
changing the economics of roots plain and simple: it
IT and requires a involves leveraging real
rethinking of how we all world implementations of
engage in standards standards & open source
development
User-driven Architectural
The members of the Standards allow
Cloud Standards enterprises to manage
Customer Council create change across market
a cross-industry view into evolution cycles
market-leading Cloud extending the value of
use cases and best customers’ services
practices based architectures and
investments
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9. Putting Customer Needs in Focus
 End user advocacy group
 Accelerate cloud's successful adoption
 Standards, security and interoperability issues relevant
for transition to the cloud
 Drive client requirements into standards development
organizations
 Deliver materials such as best practices and use cases
 Global collaboration of developers and cloud computing
technologists
 Ubiquitous Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) open
source cloud computing platform for public and private
clouds
 Cloud operating system that controls large pools of
compute, storage, and networking resources throughout
a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard
 Available under the Apache 2.0 license.
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10. FI-WARE: OpenStack-Based Cloud Hosting Infrastructure
FP 7 project The FI-WARE project will introduce
The FI-WARE project will introduce
Mission: aa generic and extendible ICT
generic and extendible ICT
– Provide core platform for Future
platform for Future Internet
platform for Future Internet
Internet applications in multiple
services. The platform –– also
services. The platform also
industries referred to as the “Future Internet
referred to as the “Future Internet
Core Platform” or “FI-WARE” ––aims
Core Platform” or “FI-WARE” aims
– Based on OpenStack
to meet the demands of key market
to meet the demands of key market
– First release available to partners of
stakeholders across many different
stakeholders across many different
FI-PPP (will be avaiable to public in
sectors,
sectors, strengthen
strengthen the
the
spring 2013)
innovation-enabling capabilities
innovation-enabling capabilities
Contribute to development of in Europe and overall ensure the
in Europe and overall ensure the
– Open Architecture Specifications long-term success of European
long-term success of European
– Open API Specifications
companies in aa highly dynamic
companies in highly dynamic
market environment
market environment
– Reference implementation
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11. Rethinking the approach to standards and
Cloud means …
… to establish a closer interlock with
customers in order to support their needs
and requirements;
… to make use of community work and
collaboration for providing open platforms
that can broadly be used and adopted
without encumbrances.
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12. Many thanks for your attention...
Happy to answer your questions
and discuss further.
jochen@de.ibm.com
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