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MANA GEMENT STRATEGIES F O R THE CL OUD R EV OL UTION



                     It’s still very early in the game, but these open source ini-
                 tiatives show how private clouds may soon be built and find
                 the means to synchronize their operations with public clouds.
                 In some cases, front-end management services, such as Skytap
                 and RightScale, already accept and manage an enterprise’s
                 virtual workloads for the cloud, even if they are generated by

                 different hypervisors. They may extend that ability and start
                 directly navigating the man-made barriers between private
                 cloud operations and the public cloud.




                 Forces Line Up behind Cloud Standards



                 The Distributed Management Task Force has launched an
                 Open Cloud Standards Incubator in which it will host early
                 work on specifications, APIs, and other candidates to become
                 standards of cloud computing. In November 2009, the DMTF
                 published a 21-page white paper, “Interoperable Clouds,”
                 which makes the point that we’ve been emphasizing through-
                 out this chapter: “It is important for users to use standard in-
                 terfaces to provide flexibility for future extensions and to avoid
                 becoming locked into a vendor.” This white paper can be

                 found at http://www.dmtf.org/about/cloud-incubator/DSP_
                 IS0101_1.0.0.pdf.
                     The Cloud Security Alliance seeks to promote shared
                 standards and best practices in cloud computing security. It is
                 partnering with the DMTF to cooperate on cloud systems
                 management standards.





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