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Cloud Standards Customer Council
The Customers’ Voice for Cloud Standards
OMG Technical Committee Meeting
11 Dec 2013
Claude R. Baudoin

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Background
Goals
• Provide customer-led guidance to
the multiple cloud standardsdefining bodies
• Establish the criteria for openstandards-based cloud computing
History
• Founded in April 2011
• Originally facilitated by, but
independent of, the OMG
450+
Organizations
participating
http://cloud-council.org
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CSCC Working Groups
Practical Guide
Security
XaaS
(chair: IBM; 60 active members)
(chair: Boeing & Kroger; 43 active members)
(Chair: Ekartha & IBM; 31 active members)
Develop collateral to help enterprise
information technology (IT) & business
decision makers adopt cloud computing
to solve business challenges.
Develop high priority use cases for cloud
security, reflecting customer issues &
pain points in cloud deployment models.
ID management, authorization, auditing,
availability, data protection & privacy are
a few issues under consideration
Identify & document existing
standards, use cases & best practices
spanning areas of IaaS, PaaS &
SaaS, to help organizations achieve
business agility & mitigate time to
market, quality & cost issues.
Cross-industry
Big Data
(Chair: IBM; WG Launch, Jan. 2013)
Industry-specific
Financial Services
Healthcare
(chair: State Street; 24 active members)
(chair: Lockheed Martin; 26 active members)
Create, refine, or assemble financial
services industry-specific use cases &
business patterns for cloud in order to
influence cloud technology standards in
the sector
5 initiatives: 1) Industry use of cloud; 2)
Standards & SDO's driving cloud use;
3) Existing EHR implementation /
adoption guidance; 4) Effective privacy
requirements for cloud; 5) Compliance
monitoring for cloud customers
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This CSCC WG will build on the cloud
computing principles to develop best
practices and identify functional /
standards requirements for these
new, engaging, internet-scale big-data
analytics platforms.

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Practical Guide to Cloud Computing
First deliverable – October 2011
Focused on pragmatic steps to solve enterprise problems
Written with a minimum of technology details
Lockheed Martin’s
survey research
Foundation for subsequent guides
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Assemble your (cloud consumer) decision team
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Develop business case and an enterprise cloud strategy
3
Select cloud deployment model(s)
4
Select cloud service model(s)
5
Determine who will develop, test and deploy the cloud services
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Develop a proof-of-concept before moving to production
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Integrate (cloud solution(s)) with existing enterprise services
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Develop and Manage Service Level Agreements (SLA)
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Manage the Cloud Environment
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indicates that while
customers understand
the benefits of cloud
computing, they
continue to look for
guidance to simplify the
move from exploration
to cloud implementation;
the CSCC Practical
Guide will serve them
well in this journey
Melvin Greer
Senior Fellow &
Chief Strategist,
loud Computing
Lockheed Martin

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Subsequent Deliverables
2011 Cloud Computing Use Cases
2012 Practical Guide to Cloud SLAs
Security for Cloud Computing
Impact of Cloud Computing on Healthcare
2013 Public Cloud SLAs: What to Expect and What to Negotiate
Impact of Convergence of Cloud, Mobile, and Social
Cloud Security Standards: What to Expect & Negotiate
Migrating Applications to Public Cloud Services –
Roadmap for Success (to be released this month)
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Expected Roadmap for 2014
Two new guides
• Deploying Big Data Analytics Applications to the Cloud:
Roadmap for Success
• Business-Driven Social Business: An Open Approach
Leads to Measurable Success
Step back and take a look
• Update some of the existing guides -- things have evolved
quickly in some areas since 2011-2012
Increased focus on Open Source
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Call to Action
Join the CSCC Now!
• To impact customer use case-based standards
requirements
• To learn about all Cloud Standards within one organization
• Membership is free, apply at www.cloud-council.org/application
Get Involved!
• Join one or more of the CSCC Working Groups, see
www.cloud-council.org/workinggroups.htm
• Participate in periodic web conferences to shape the work
Review and leverage CSCC resources
• All papers/guides are free to download and share from the
CSCC’s Web site at http://cloud-council.org/resource-hub
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Thank You!
For more information, contact:
John Meegan, meegan@us.ibm.com
Claude Baudoin, cbaudoin@cebe-itkm.com