Intercloud: Solving Interoperability and Communication in a Cloud of Clouds

Appendix A. Intercloud Standards Organizations and Industry Bodies

Many cloud computing standards organizations or committees have been formed in order to address cloud issues such as adoption, security, interoperability, brokerage, and a host of other items related to cloud services. Also, there are organizations that produce best practices for service delivery, business processes, and operations that are widely adopted by enterprises and service providers worldwide. In this appendix, we provide both types of cloud standards organizations. A standards organization is an organization whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, and otherwise producing technical standards that ...