There is currently a lot of discussion about the role of standards in the cloud, along with a large amount of activity in standards development for the cloud. While some parties see the cloud as something completely new that requires an entirely new set of standards, other parties see the cloud as a technology based on existing technologies that already have standards.
While there are many standards that were developed in support of pre-cloud computing technologies, such as those designed for web services and the Internet, which also support cloud computing, many new cloud computing standards have emerged in recent years and several others are still in draft form.
These standards are now being developed in specific support of cloud computing functions and requirements.. There are many organisation operating in this space but it does not appear there is conscious effort to avoid duplication and contradiction.It is unlikely an all encompassing standard will emerge in cloud.
Based on the conceptual reference model of Cloud Service provider defined by NIST I try to catalogue some cloud related standards and how they map to the reference model. While many standards are generally relevant to these cloud computing areas, the following sections will map those specifically relevant to cloud.
Cloud Service Management includes all of the service-related functions that are necessary for the management and operation of those services required by or proposed to cloud consumers.As illustrated cloud service management can be described from the perspective of business support, provisioning and configuration, and portability and interoperability requirement.
Name of the specification
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OASIS Public Administration Cloud Requirements (PACR)
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Category
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Provisioning/configuration::SLA management
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Purpose and function of the specification
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Set of common required functional elements, and measurable criteria or qualities that should be present in cloud
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URI for the normative text of the specification
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The name of the SDO that generated/authored/hosted the specification
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Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
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Which of the categories of Cloud services does the standard address?
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SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
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Name of the specification
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OASIS Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP)
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Category
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Provisioning/configuration
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Purpose and function of the specification
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Management of resources within the Platform as a Service domain.an interoperable protocol that cloud implementers can use to package and deploy their applications.
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URI for the normative text of the specification
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The name of the SDO that generated/ authored/ hosted the specification
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Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
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Which of the categories of Cloud services does the standard address?
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PaaS
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Name of the specification
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Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface
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Category
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Provisioning/configuration
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Purpose and function of the specification
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Management of resources within the Infrastructure as a Service domain. model and protocol for management interactions between a cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Provider and the Consumers of an IaaS service
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URI for the normative text of the specification
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The name of the SDO that generated/ authored/ hosted the specification
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Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
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Which of the categories of Cloud services does the standard address?
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IaaS
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Name of the specification
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Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA)
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Category
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Interoprability/Portability
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Purpose and function of the specification
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Provide interoperable description of application and infrastructure cloud services, the relationships between parts of the service, and the operational behavior of these services
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URI for the normative text of the specification
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The name of the SDO that generated/authored/hosted the specification
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Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
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Which of the categories of Cloud services does the standard address?
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SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
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Name of the specification
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Open Virtualization Format Specification
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Category
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Interoperability/Portability::System Portability
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Purpose and
function of the specification
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An open, secure, portable, efficient
and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to
be run in virtual machines
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URI for the
normative text of the specification
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The name of the
SDO that generated/authored/hosted the specification
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Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
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Which of the
categories of Cloud services does the standard address?
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SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
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Known
implementations of the specification
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VirtualBox, Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, VMware, IBM POWER server AIX, IBM SmartCloud, OpenNode Cloud
Platform, rPath, SUSE Studio
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Name of the specification
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OASIS Symptoms Automation Framework (SAF)
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Category
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Monitoring and Reporting
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Purpose and function of the specification
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Knowledge sharing across domains, allowing consumer and provider to work cooperatively together to ensure adequate capacity, maximize quality of service, and reduce cost.
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URI for the normative text of the specification
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The name of the SDO that generated/ authored/ hosted the specification
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Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
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Which of the categories of Cloud services does the standard address?
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SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
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Name of the specification
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SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)
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Category
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Provisioning/configuration ::Data Portability
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Purpose and function of the specification
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Functional interface that applications will use to create, retrieve, update and delete data elements from the cloud
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URI for the normative text of the specification
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The name of the SDO that generated/authored/hosted the specification
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Storage Networking Industry Association International Organization for Standards(SNIA)
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Which of the categories of Cloud services does the standard address?
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SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
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Name of the specification
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CloudAuthZ
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Category
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Security::Authorization
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Purpose and function of the specification
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Managing authorizations and entitlements in SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS contexts
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URI for the normative text of the specification
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The name of the SDO that generated/authored/hosted the specification
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Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
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Which of the categories of Cloud services does the standard address?
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SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
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Name of the specification
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OASIS Identity in the Cloud
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Category
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Security::Identity Managent
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Purpose and
function of the specification
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Identity management in cloud computing
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URI for the
normative text of the specification
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The name of the
SDO that generated/ authored/ hosted the specification
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Organisation for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
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Which of the
categories of Cloud services does the standard address?
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SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
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Name of the specification
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Trusted Multi-tenant
Infrastructure
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Category
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Security:: Confidentiality & Integrity
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Purpose and
function of the specification
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Implementation patterns for cloud providers and consumers to implement
a trusted computing base using shared multi-tenant infrastructure
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URI for the
normative text of the specification
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The name of the
SDO that generated/authored/hosted the specification
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TrustedComputingGroup
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Which of the
categories of Cloud services does the standard address?
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SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
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