[occi-wg] OCCI presentation at IGT2009 slides

[Alexis Richardson]

Prasad

The OGF grid standards may be useful for creating federations of
cooperating resource providers, whose collected resources may then
deliver some cloud-like characteristics.  But for this to happen, some
provider(s) must want to do it.  Without that, the standards will play
no role.

alexis



On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Renuka Prasad <prasadtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I am interested in knowing the role of existing OGF standards for
> grid computing in the upcoming cloud technology. Will they will be
> used as it is or only some standards will be incorporated?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Prasad
>
>
> On 12/6/09, shlomo.swidler at gmail.com <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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