Cloud computing standards debate heats up with CAMP formation

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Fernanda Aspe.

IT experts and cloud consumers understand the need for cloud standards, but standardization seems like an elusive possibility when the objectives of those standards remain undefined. Typically, standards are created to drive a market; end users or consumers usually have little say in the process of standardization.

"We end up with standards created to service technology providers, not the consumers," said David S. Linthicum, CTO and founder of cloud computing experts company, Blue Mountain Labs…

Cloud computing standards proponents, however, disagree. "For the cloud to operate, to deliver on the promise, there absolutely has to be standards," said Andrew Watson, liaison officer for Cloud Standards Customer Council. "[Standards] are simply necessary for something like cloud."…

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