Open Cloud Manifesto: Core principles for cloud computing

Grazed from ThoughtsOnCloud. Author: Thiago Viola.

Can we consider cloud computing open source? Is there a cloud computing standard? How can we work with different cloud providers? An instructor from one of my MBA classes (@AnderPaulucci) referred me to the Open Cloud Manifesto site and I did a whitepaper about this subject to explain how it works. I saw what could be a great solution for the open cloud scenario.

This document is intended to initiate a conversation that will bring together the emerging cloud computing community (both cloud users and cloud providers) around a core set of principles. They believe that these core principles are rooted in the belief that cloud computing should be as open as all other IT technologies. Some key points are:…

* Security: Reassure customers that cloud providers must offer a high degree of transparency into their operations.

* Data and application interoperability: Cloud providers need to support interoperability standards so that organizations can combine any cloud provider’s capabilities into their solutions. Organizations will want the flexibility to create solutions-enabled data and applications to communicate where they reside (public, private or hybrid cloud)…

Read more from the source @ http://thoughtsoncloud.com/index.php/2014/01/open-cloud-manifesto-core-principles-for-cloud-computing/