NIST Seeks Members for Three New Cloud Computing Working Groups
June 23, 2014
Grazed from NIST.gov. Author: Evelyn Brown.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cloud Computing Program (NCCP) is forming three public working groups to provide solutions to cloud computing challenges. A teleconference on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, at 11 a.m. Eastern will kick off the effort. Program leaders will discuss group goals, member roles and responsibilities, meeting schedules and deadlines. The NCCP provides leadership and guidance to catalyze and facilitate the use of cloud computing within industry and government.\
NIST’s cloud computing public working groups bring together industry, government and academic experts from across the world to address requirements laid out in the NIST U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, Release 1.0 (Draft).* The combined efforts of several public working groups drew up the roadmap and others are working on security, standards and accessibility…
Two of the key challenges for cloud computing flagged in the roadmap are interoperability— software and components working together—and portability—allowing data owners to easily move data from one cloud to another or change cloud vendor. The Interoperability and Portability for Cloud Computing working group will identify the issues and types of interoperability and portability needed for cloud computing systems and the relationships and interactions between interoperability and portability…
Read more from the source @ http://www.nist.gov/itl/antd/cloud-062314.cfm