1. ATIS’ Cloud Activity Andrew White Nokia Siemens Networks
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GSC15-PLEN-82
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ATIS
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Andrew White
ATIS’ Cloud Activity
Andrew White Nokia Siemens Networks
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) GSC-15

2. Highlight of Current Activities
Cloud Services Industry Assessment
Collaborative initiative between ATIS Technology and Operations (TOPS) Council (CTOs) and ATIS CIO Council (Operator CIOs) to develop a Framework to address industry business and technical needs.
Policy Management Assessment and Recommendations
Published and Available on the ATIS Website
ATIS PTSC Identity Management (IdM) Work including published Framework, Use Cases, and Requirements
See ATIS IdM Update
ATIS Service Oriented Networks (SON) Work including Service Enabler Characterization
See ATIS SON Update
Network Optimization
Completed Scope and Assessment
ATIS XML Harmonization
Standard format for XML namespace

3. Strategic Direction
Assessing Cloud from both an IT and a Network perspective through collaboration between ATIS TOPS Council (CTOs) and CIO Council (Operator CIOs).
Goal: to enable the delivery of distributed services and/or applications by means of accessing a shared pool of configurable resources (network, computing, storage) managed as integrated resources.
Addressing Service Providers’ (SPs) needs for cloud:
Focus on how SPs can use what they build – deployment of cloud services (Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service) can be sold to customers as a product and also used internally to streamline operations.
Integrating business needs (i.e., deploying new services such as telepresence and other media-rich applications) with technological innovations (i.e., leveraging the scaled economies of cloud).

4. Strategic Direction (2)
ATIS is taking a cross-functional (IT and network) approach to Cloud.
Key service capabilities associated with the cloud (e.g., streaming video, data, security, etc.) are under development within several (individual) committees or forums.
Addressing these topics requires a two pronged approach
Individual committees specific service enablers (IdM, IPTV, Management, etc.) work is shared across ATIS through joint committee sessions.
Cross functional methods such as XML Harmonization are worked collaboratively in multi-committee ad hoc teams.
Build linkages between business goals and the related specific standards.

5. Challenges Varying views on the business models.
Horizontal integration is hard!
More time with liaisons
More time in joint meetings
Important work occurs in many places!
Speak your core competency
Contribute to the expertise of others
Cloud moves at internet speed!
Many activities are proceeding in parallel
The aggregate activity can be overwhelming

6. Next Steps/Actions
Continue assessment of SPs needs and develop industry recommendations.
Collaborate with relevant SDOs and forums (e.g., GSC PSOs) to integrate and aggregate knowledge.
Complete first landscape view of network/IT cloud by October 2010 and develop next steps.
Improve standards adoption by (application) development community through companion XML specs where applicable.

7. Proposed Resolution
N/A