CloudEthernet Forum to fight cloud fragmentation
June 2, 2014
Grazed from TelcoReview. Author: Editorial Staff.
Every cloud provider has its own technologies, its own buzzwords, its own APIs – and that’s a challenge for enterprises. High on their cloud shopping lists are ideas like portability, compatibility and interoperability. So far, cloud providers have been unable to address those demands. That’s about to change, thanks to standards work being done by the CloudEthernet Forum, a relatively new nonprofit organization spun out of the well-established MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum).
The CEF previewed two new programs at the NetEvents Cloud Innovation Summit, held here in late March 2014: the CloudE 1.0 Framework and OpenCloud Project. The CloudE 1.0 Framework defines a set of standardized services to be offered by cloud service providers…
The organisation lists what it calls the Five Fundamentals of cloud computing: Virtualisation, Automation, Security, Programmability and Analytics, or VASPA…
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