CLOUD – DRIVERS AND ISSUES Michael Sharpe1 st Digital Agenda Assembly VP ETSI Standardization Projects Towards a Cloud Computing Strategy for Europe © ETSI All rights reserved
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 All rights reserved
Policy and regulatory issues Data Protection Security, reliability Privacy, consumer protection QoS Portability Responsibility and Liability, Jurisdiction... etc © ETSI All rights reserved 3 All of which have knock-on effects on standards making
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
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 All rights reserved 5
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