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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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