New body formed to promote cloud adoption

The Cloud Standards Customer Council has been formed by the Object Management Group (OMG) to accelerate the successful adoption of cloud computing, and to push client requirements into the standards process to ensure openness, security and interoperability.

The founding sponsors were CA, IBM, Kaavo, Rackspace, and Software AG. Other council members are drawn from the IT industry (eg, Red Hat), government (eg, the US General Services Administration), academia (eg, Jordan University of Science and Technology) and business (eg, Citigroup).

"End users confront the challenges of implementing cloud on a daily basis. The Cloud Standards Customer Council will bring together these cloud veterans into a community where they can discover and disseminate best practices for moving to and managing the cloud and help to drive standards across industry, both to end-users and vendors to bring down costs and increase choice," said Richard Mark Soley, chairman and CEO, OMG.

Membership is free for qualified end-user organisations.