The document discusses the current state of cloud standards, highlighting the challenges posed by disparate cloud interfaces and the potential for user lock-in. It advocates for open cloud standards that enhance interoperability, allowing developers to deploy across multiple platforms and reducing barriers for both users and providers. Various existing standards and initiatives are mentioned, including OpenStack, the Open Cloud Compute Interface, and the Cloud Data Management Interface.

1. Open cloud standards,
what they are and why they matter
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2. Current State of Play
• Today there are many different clouds
• Each cloud typically has own unique interface
• There is disparity between capabilities
• Makes it difficult to develop cross platform
• Potential lock in is red flag for end users
• Not great for providers or end users
There needs to be a better way...
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3. How Open Cloud Standards Will Help
• Enable interop between clouds
• Enable developers to package once, deploy
anywhere
• Enable tool vendors to support more clouds
• Reduce lock in for end users
• Leading to wider adoption of cloud services in
general
• Allow for development of horizontal players
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4. What Cloud Standards Exist Today?
• Defacto Standards
– Amazon EC2 API interface
– Amazon S3 API interface
• Open Standards
– OpenStack Compute
– OpenStack Storage
– Open Cloud Compute Interface (OCCI)
– Common Data Management Interface (CDMI)
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5. OpenStack
• Consortium of cloud companies led by
foundation members Rackspace and NASA
• Open source compute and storage stack for
building compute and storage clouds
• Compute API based on RAX Cloud Servers API
• Storage API based on RAX Cloud Files API
• Gaining widespread support and momentum
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6. Open Cloud Compute Interface
• Open community lead cloud API spec
delivered by Open Grid Forum (OGF)
• First spec targets IaaS compute
• Further specs to target PaaS & SaaS
• Focused on Integration, Portability, Interop
and Extensibility
• Recommended by UK government as the
cloud interface for use in G-Cloud
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7. Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)
• Created by storage networking industry
association (SNIA)
• Open standard to manage and access cloud
data storage
• Functional interface to create, read, update
and delete data elements in storage cloud
• Support for block, file and object storage type
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8. Cloud Central and Open Cloud Standards
• We believe in open cloud standards
• We are a corporate contributor to OpenStack
• We are a member of the OCCI working group
• We support the CDMI initiative
We are releasing our implementation of
OpenStack Compute API to beta testers today!
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9. Learn More
www.openstack.org
www.occi-wg.org
cdmi.sniacloud.com
open.cloudcentral.com.au
Contact: Kristoffer Sheather
+61 2 6173 7349
kris@cloudcentral.com.au
www.cloudcentral.com.au
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