[occi-wg] OCCI presentation at IGT2009 slides

[Thijs Metsch]

Hi,

Thanks a lot! Indeed interesting statements/questions. I like your 
answer to #3 :-)

Cheers,

-Thijs

shlomo.swidler at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Last week I presented OCCI at the IGT2009 conference and participated
> in a short panel discussion about cloud standards, moderated by Reuven
> Cohen and including a representative of the Zend Simple Cloud API.
> 
> Here are the slides:
> http://www.slideshare.net/shl0m0/igt2009-the-open-cloud-computing-interface
> 
> The panel discussion touched on these three questions:
> 
> 1) What is the driver for cloud standards - do businesses really want them?
> I said that the main driver for standardization is coming from the
> Government. Now that they need to buy cloud, and to define it before
> they can buy it, standards will be needed in order to fulfill
> Government purchasing requirements.
> 
> 2) Why not just use the existing de-facto standards such as the EC2
> API, as opposed to creating de-jure standards?
> I said that we need to focus on the vision: the vision is "open cloud"
> and a healthy ecosystem. The current de-facto standard is not
> compatible with that vision, since it is IP encumbered. Instead we
> need to push for an open standard.
> 
> 3) Why don't you two guys (OCCI and Simple Cloud API) work together?
> I smiled, reached over, and shook the Simple Cloud API rep's hand.
> 
> Shlomo
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