Cloud Industry Forum launches cloud management special interest group
April 5, 2013
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.
The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has launched a second Special Interest Group (SIG), this time focusing on cloud operations and management. The move comes a little over a week since the industry body, which aims to promote trust, security and transparency in the cloud computing sector, launched an SIG to focus on cloud security issues.
CIF claims the new SIG – which will be chaired by Lee Fisher, Abiquo’s vice president of products – has been set up in order to help both cloud providers and end users develop better cloud strategies. These should, the organisation says, properly define service goals and success criteria, plot migration paths for legacy technologies and processes and identify agnostic and ‘future proof’ technologies…
“By establishing this group, we aim to develop and champion best practice for managing the complexity of a distributed IT estate [as it moves to the cloud]," Fisher said. "We will also look to discuss, develop and provide guidance towards the appropriate steps that business should follow to ensure a seamless transition of today’s traditional process driven IT controls into a future automated, frictionless cloud era. Simply put, to better operate the cloud."…
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