OMG TECHNICAL MEETING
SPECIAL EVENT
Cloud
Interoperability Roadmaps Session
December
10,
2009, Long Beach, CA
On December 10, there was a Session on "Cloud
Interoperability Roadmaps" at the OMG Technical Meeting in Long
Beach, CA. The presenters included leaders of government,
industry, and standard groups working on Cloud Computing. Chris Kemp
(CIO of NASA Ames) who is a government Cloud standards leader was one
of the presenters. The standards groups participating included
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), Open Grid Forum (OGF) Open
Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), Storage Networking Industry
Association (SNIA) and the Object Management Group (OMG). Vendor
participants included Microsoft, VMware, and IBM.
The goal was to initiate a collaborative Roadmap Process leading
towards improved interoperability/portability across Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS) Cloud APIs. Recently several efforts have been
launched by standards groups and industry to develop "Open
APIs" for IaaS. There is a
general
consensus that the functionality of these APIs often overlap
while the specific details of the interfaces are divergent.
Harmonizing IaaS APIs seem like an achievable goal for a Cloud
Interoperability Roadmap Process. The resulting Roadmap should help
the government plan future Cloud deployments and procurements.
The Session was a follow-on to a series of meetings in 2009 among
government, industry, and standards groups. These include a
Cloud
Interoperability Workshop (March), a
Cloud
Standards Coordination Session (July), and a
Government
Cloud Initiatives and Standards Roadmaps Workshop (September).
The results of these meetings include
Cloud
Standards Coordination group and a proposal for a
Cloud
Standards Roadmap Process.
AGENDA
| 08:00 - 08:30 |
(Rackspace) - Jorge
Williams, Senior Software Engineer,
Rackspace
An Implementer’s Perspective on Interoperable Cloud
APIs
|
| 08:30 - 09:00 |
(Open Cloud Consortium) -
Stuart Bailey, CTO, Infoblox
Open
Cloud Consortium: An Update
|
|
09:00 - 09:30 |
(IBM) - Ginny Ghezzo,
Senior Development Manager, Emerging Technologies, IBM
Thinking Dynamically About the Infrastructure
|
| 09:30 – 10:00 |
(Microsoft)
- Mark Ryland, National Standards Officer (USA), Microsoft
Interoperability in the
Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities
|
|
10:00 - 10:15 |
Break
|
| 10:15 – 10:45 |
(Sun) - Lew Tucker,
CTO of Sun's Cloud Computing Initiative
Sun Cloud API: A RESTful
Open API for Cloud Computing
|
| 10:45 – 11:15 |
(RightScale) - Michael
Crandell, CEO, RightScale
Cloud Portability: The RightScale Perspective
|
| 11:15 – 11:45 |
(Elastra) - Stuart
Charlton, CTO, Elastra
Cloud Portability Through Application and Capability
Modeling
|
| 11:45 – 12:00 |
(Eucalyptus) - Woody
Rollins, CEO, Eucalyptus
Interoperability: It’s
not the API
|
|
12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch
(Tables reserved for Cloud Session attendees)
|
| 13:00 – 13:30 |
(Cloud Security Alliance)
- Nils Puhlmann, Co-founder, Cloud Security Alliance
Security in the Cloud: Why a Holistic View is Needed
|
| 13:30 – 14:30 |
(NASA) - Chris Kemp, CIO of NASA Ames
Standards, Nebula and
Interoperability
|
| 14:30 – 15:00 |
(GICTF) - Hiroshi Sakai, GICTF Secretariat, Supervisor,
Global Inter-Cloud Technology Forum
Introduction to Global
Inter-Cloud Technology Forum and its Roadmaps
|
|
15:00 – 15:15 |
Break
|
| 15:15 – 15:45 |
(DMTF) - Winston Bumpus, President, Distributed Management Task
Force
Will Cloud Computing be
Open and Interoperable?
|
| 15:45 – 16:15 |
(OGF) - Craig Lee, President, Open Grid Forum
An Open Cloud Computing
Interface Status Update
|
| 16:15 – 18:30 |
Interactive Discussion
About Follow-on Activities
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