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Cloud Standards Customer Council
Membership Expanding Rapidly
First Virtual Meeting to be Held May 18
Needham, MA, USA - April 27, 2011 - The Cloud Standards
Customer Council (CSCC), managed by OMG®, has more than
doubled its membership since the announcement of its
formation with now more than 91 participating organizations.
In the group's first meeting of CSCC participants, there was
a call for use cases, the establishment of a Wiki page and
an agenda underway for the first formal virtual meeting on
Wednesday, May 18. For more information on the CSCC, visit http://www.cloud-council.org/.
"Influencing the development and adoption of cloud
standards with a focus on customer requirements will
positively impact cloud computing deployment," said
Melvin Greer, Senior Fellow and Chief Strategist Cloud
Computing, Lockheed Martin; interim chair, CSCC steering
committee.
"This has been a very exciting launch with an
incredibly motivated group of participants and sponsors. The
Cloud Standards Customer Council is the fastest-growing
group we've ever had in our 22 years' history," said
Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., chairman and CEO, OMG. "The
great reception the announcement had, and the comments I've
heard from attendees at our successful first meeting show
enormous end-user interest in simplifying access to the
cloud."
The Cloud Standards Customer Council is an end user
advocacy group dedicated to accelerating cloud's successful
adoption, and drilling down into the standards, security and
interoperability issues surrounding the transition to the
cloud. More than 91 of the world's leading organizations
have joined the Cloud Standards Customer Council, with more
joining every day. CA Technologies, IBM, Kaavo, Rackspace
and Software AG are Founding Sponsors.
The Council is not a standards organization, but will
complement existing cloud standards efforts and establish a
core set of client-driven requirements to ensure cloud users
will have the same freedom of choice, flexibility, and
openness they have with traditional IT environments. The
Cloud Standards Customer Council is open to all end-user
organizations. The group will work to lower the barriers for
widespread adoption of Cloud Computing by helping to
prioritize key Interoperability issues such as cloud
management, reference architecture, hybrid clouds, as well
as security and compliance issues.
Elections for the steering committee will take place at
the first face-to-face meeting of the CSCC on June 21, 2011
in Salt Lake City, UT. Details will be posted on the CSCC
website soon. Membership is free for qualified end-user
organizations. The membership application is available at http://www.cloud-council.org/application.
Vendors may join as sponsors. For membership or sponsorship
questions, contact Ken Berk at ken.berk@omg.org
or +1-781-444 0404.
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About the Cloud Standards Customer Council
The Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC) is an
end user advocacy group dedicated to accelerating cloud's
successful adoption, and drilling down into the standards,
security and interoperability issues surrounding the
transition to the cloud. The Council is not a standards
organization, but will complement existing cloud standards
efforts and establish a core set of client-driven
requirements to ensure cloud users will have the same
freedom of choice, flexibility, and openness they have with
traditional IT environments. The Cloud Standards Customer
Council is open to all end-user organizations. CA
Technologies, IBM, Kaavo, Rackspace and Software AG are
Founding Sponsors. For more information on CSCC, visit http://www.cloud-council.org.
The CSCC is managed by OMG®
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