1. CLOUD – DRIVERS AND ISSUES Michael Sharpe1 st Digital Agenda Assembly VP ETSI Standardization Projects Towards a Cloud Computing Strategy for Europe © ETSI 2011. All rights reserved

2. What’s in a cloud A major shift in IT architectures and service delivery Ubiquitous computing « Inverted value chains » Openness /interoperability: the crux of the matter Development pulled by commercial needs Won’t be end-to-end No time to design big master plans… …but research is crucial Cross road of infrastructure and services Policy, standards, regulation…strategy & tactics – NOW! 2 © ETSI 2011. All rights reserved

3. Policy and regulatory issues Data Protection Security, reliability Privacy, consumer protection QoS Portability Responsibility and Liability, Jurisdiction... etc © ETSI 2011. All rights reserved 3 All of which have knock-on effects on standards making

4. 4 Interoperability and standards -questions Within clouds Infrastructure equipment & software APIs Standardized or Unified APIs? Proprietary ? What about registries? Between clouds Portability & interoperability public/private « Cloud of clouds » « Hard standards », « soft standards » and also SLAs, business processes, etc… The thorny issue of IPR dealings

5. You want to talk to us (as much as we want to talk to you...) Industry driven 750+ Members, 62 countries, 5 continents (80% private sector) Links to governements (members) and EU policy makers We never do it alone…global network of partners (SDOs and fora) « Made in Europe for Global Use » Focus on IOP: Centre for Testing & Interoperability Engineering interoperability between heterogeneous components Testing, validation Interop testing (PlugTest) © ETSI 2011. All rights reserved 5

6. 6 michael.sharpe@etsi.org margot.dor.etsi.org www.etsi.org