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Cloud Central presentation about open cloud standards, what they are and why they matter.Kristoffer Sheather from Cloud Central delivered this presentation at CloudCamp Sydney 2011.
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Open cloud standards,what they are and why they matter
February 25, 2011 Copyright Cloud Central 2011
Current State of Play
• Today there are many different clouds
• Each cloud typically has own unique interface
• There is disparity between capabilities
• Makes it difficult to develop cross platform
• Potential lock in is red flag for end users
• Not great for providers or end users
There needs to be a better way...
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How Open Cloud Standards Will Help
• Enable interop between clouds
• Enable developers to package once, deploy anywhere
• Enable tool vendors to support more clouds
• Reduce lock in for end users
• Leading to wider adoption of cloud services in general
• Allow for development of horizontal players
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What Cloud Standards Exist Today?
• Defacto Standards
– Amazon EC2 API interface
– Amazon S3 API interface
• Open Standards
– OpenStack Compute
– OpenStack Storage
– Open Cloud Compute Interface (OCCI)
– Common Data Management Interface (CDMI)
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OpenStack
• Consortium of cloud companies led by foundation members Rackspace and NASA
• Open source compute and storage stack for building compute and storage clouds
• Compute API based on RAX Cloud Servers API
• Storage API based on RAX Cloud Files API
• Gaining widespread support and momentum
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Open Cloud Compute Interface
• Open community lead cloud API spec delivered by Open Grid Forum (OGF)
• First spec targets IaaS compute
• Further specs to target PaaS & SaaS
• Focused on Integration, Portability, Interopand Extensibility
• Recommended by UK government as the cloud interface for use in G-Cloud
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Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)
• Created by storage networking industry association (SNIA)
• Open standard to manage and access cloud data storage
• Functional interface to create, read, update and delete data elements in storage cloud
• Support for block, file and object storage type
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Cloud Central and Open Cloud Standards
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• We believe in open cloud standards
• We are a corporate contributor to OpenStack
• We are a member of the OCCI working group
• We support the CDMI initiative
We are releasing our implementation of OpenStack Compute API to beta testers today!
Learn More
www.openstack.orgwww.occi-wg.org
cdmi.sniacloud.comopen.cloudcentral.com.au
Contact: Kristoffer Sheather+61 2 6173 7349
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