[occi-wg] FYI: Cloud Interoperability Roadmaps Session on Dec 10 in Long Beach, Ca

[Bob Marcus]

This is a link to the Agenda for the "Cloud Interoperability Roadmaps" 
Session on December 10 in Long Beach, Ca. Craig Lee (OGF President) will 
be presenting OCCI.
http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/ca/special-events/Cloud_Interop_Roadmaps.htm

One day registraton is available to all at  
http://www.omg.org/registration/ca/index-c.htm  I'll post a link to the 
Proceedings after the Session.

 Bob Marcus

P.S. Shlomo did an excellent job representing OCCI at the IGT2009 World 
Summit.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [occi-wg] OCCI presentation at IGT2009 slides
Date: 	Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:08:02 +0100
From: 	Thijs Metsch <Thijs.Metsch at Sun.COM>
To: 	shlomo.swidler at gmail.com
CC: 	occi-wg <occi-wg at ogf.org>
References: 	<8abf61f70912051901v5d9be6a6od8b3a3abdd38a4d8 at mail.gmail.com>


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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