Competing standards could damage cloud industry

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.

Meaningful cloud computing standards are crucial to improve the maturity of cloud-based services and bring increased flexibility, security and interoperability, but too many competing standards could wreak damage, warned the Cloud Industry Forum’s independent certification partner, the APM Group. As cloud uptake gathers pace among users, industry bodies and consumers have expressed anguish over the lack of relevant cloud standards and interoperability hindering cloud adoption.

Cloud standards and interoperability would allow IT to move applications and workloads between private and public clouds and from one public cloud to another. It would enable enterprises to select a combination of cloud technologies and avoid vendor lock-in…

But some experts said that any relevant standard around cloud interoperability and portability is "years away”. “The market is clearly in need of regulation and standardisation,” said Richard Pharro, chief executive of the certification organisation, APM Group…

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