Following on from the previous post, Webinos at the Digital Agenda – Interoperability and standardization workshop , we (Nick and I – representing Webinos) also attended the Towards a cloud computing strategy for Europe: Matching supply and demand
This workshop had many good presentations but I am going to focus on one specific aspect from Mark SKILTON (Capgemini, Global Infrastructure Services, United Kingdom)
He presented the attached diagram about Cloud computing standards followed by details about the standards at various levels of the cloud stack.
The notes below and the diagram make fascinating reading and they show a problem that webinos grapples with ie standardization across the Web + Telecom stack. I don’t have any comments except to say that it is a complex task and it may be fulfilled partly through systems like webinos which try to unite the stack holistically but also we will see diversity through a mix of open standards, proprietary standards, open source and closed source
The WEF World economic forum http://www.weforum.org/s?s=cloud+computing has recently conducted a survey and number of publications on the topic of Cloud Computing among its many interests including Climate change and Economic growth.
Security guideline standards – CSA cloud Security Alliance https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/ are a significant standards body who have lead in the development of Identification, authentication, authorization, encryption and secure access to personal and corporate data and assets.
Encryption protocol standards – Data encryption – Advanced Encryption standard AES (NIST http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf); Transport layer encryption - Virtual Private Network protocols VPN; Message encryption – SSL
Identity and Authentication Standards : OASIS – Liberty Alliance Standards Body http://www.oasis-open.org/ token authentication SAML 2.0;
OPENID foundation http://openid.net/foundation/.OpenID authentication Single Sign-on.
Web service Standards : ISO/IEC 29362:2008 for Web services and ISO JTC 38 to reconcile Web services, SOA and cloud computing standards development to extend WS*I under DAPS – Distributed Applications and Platform Services Initiative. World Wide Web Consortium W3C http://www.w3.org/ RDF, SPARQL, OWL, Semantic Web and Web architectures http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_technical_committee.html?commid=601355;
Legal Compliance standards : – Policy compliance for corporate enterprise environments and personal privacy
ISO 27000 series relating to Information Security Governance; Government Legislative standards.
EU Directive 95/46/EC – Security, Data Transfer
EU Directive 2002/58/EC – Interception, Spam, cookies.
Federal law on Safe Habor.
PCI-DSS – payment cards.
Government- Patriot, Subpoenas
HIPPA - Personal Data protection
Sarbane-Oxley – Data Audit
Browser standards- these include open and closed (Proprietary) standards
Formats for web page Screen description and manipulation of webpage information : examples include HTML (5) (W3C http://www.w3.org/), CSS DOM, ECMAScript. Feeds and Scripts, ajax, rss atom; Adobe Flash
Platform OS: Microsoft, Unix, Linux, Apple, Chrome, ,Net, Java, OpenVMS (HP)..
Mobile Platform OS: Android, Windows Mobile, AppleOS, HP WebOS..
Open Source Standards: OpenVMS, Apache LibCloud, Linux and many others, OSI Open Source Initiative. Open Compute initiative (Facebook) http://opencompute.org/ and many others
Grid Computing and cloud projects, Globus Project OGSA Open Grid Services Architecture http://www.globus.org/ogsa/ , OGF, Nebula Cloud (NASA) , eScience Open Science Data Cloud , Reservoir fp7 project http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/ , OpenStack http://www.openstack.org/ , and many others
API standards – for access to Cloud resources can be split into open and closed(Proprietary) APIs.
OCCI Open Cloud Computing Interface – from OGF OpenGridForum http://www.gridforum.org/
CDMI- Cloud Data Management Interface from – from SNIA Storage Network Industry Association http://www.snia.org/
Open Cloud API - Python, Java – Apache Libcloud development http://libcloud.apache.org/ Libcloud
Google APIs- examples http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html , Google Code http://code.google.com/
Amazon APIs – examples https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html , Amazon WS documentation http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/
Salesforce.com APIs http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/Content/sforce_api_quickstart_intro.htm , Salesforce.com developer documentationhttp://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/index.htm
and many others..
Code development standards - Java, windows , .NET, Ruby, Python, PHP, C++..
Chip set standards: IBM, Intel, ARM, HP..
Container standards – these are open and closed (Proprietary) standards. And include :
OVF Open Virtualization Format – from DMTF Distributed Management Task Force http://www.dmtf.org/standards/ovf relating to VMware VMIs.
Amazon AMIs and many others
Service Management certification standards - ITIL v3, ITSM is standards for Service Management (for ITC regulation). CMMI and ISO 20000 certifications for IT Service management maturity and quality standards (ISO 9000 for non ITC)
Architectural standards - The Open Group http://www.opengroup.org/ TOGAF model for Enterprise Architecture with recognized International certification. The group also has Cloud Computing , SOA, Security and Semantic Interoperability reference models. NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology Cloud Initiative http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/ , Other Use Case developments are seen in OASIS, OMG, ODCA and many others
Ajit Jaokar
Bio
Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based publishing and research company futuretext focussed on emerging Web and Mobile technologies.
In 2009-2010, Ajit was nominated as part of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet by the world economic forum. Ajit chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Web 2.0, Social networking, Mobile Web 2.0 and LTE services at Oxford University. Ajit’s thinking is widely followed in the industry and his blog, the OpenGardens Blog, which was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide.
Media appearances include BBC – Newsnight – 3phone launch; CNN money; BBC digital planet. Ajit’s latest books are Open Mobile, Social Media Marketing and Mobile Web 2.0. His recent talks and forthcoming talks include: MobileWorld Congress(2011, 2009, 2008, 2007); CTIA 2011, CEBIT 2009; Keynote at O Reilly Web20 expo (April 2007);Keynote at Java One; European Parliament – Brussels – (Electronic Internet Foundation); Stanford University’s Digital visions program; MIT Sloan;Fraunhofer FOKUS ; University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
His consulting activities include working with companies to define value propositions across the device, network, Web and Social networking stack spanning both technology and strategy. He has worked with a range of commercial and government organizations globally including The European Union, Telecoms Operators, Device manufacturers, social networking companies and security companies in various strategic and visionary roles Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three. He is currently doing a PhD on Internet of Things, Privacy and Reputation systems at UCL in London. Ajit is a fan of animation especially Tom and Jerry, Tintin and Asterix and likes the music of ZZ Top and other rock bands.
Webinos interests
- WP2 Use cases
- WP7 Outreach
- Plus other roles to make webinos a success!
