While the virtual machines cut costs and save energy, they also raise questions about data leakage as well as whether a customer would ever find out files have been breached, said Jim Reavis, executive director of Cloud Security Alliance, a non-profit advocated for cloud security standards.
The battle between competing cloud-computing standards has caused a rupture in the open-cloud movement.
To date, OpenStack has 130 participating companies to develop to open standards for cloud software and services.
However, to me, Openness (and with it Broader adoption, private, hybrid of Public) about the Cloud starts with open Standards for APIs, reference architecture and hardware (Open Compute is a good example of that).
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In the United States, where many cloud companies are based, legal standards make it much easier for law enforcement to obtain data for criminal or other investigations, said Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based digital rights group.
Yet the cloud will be based more on open standards than on proprietary technology.
Almost every explanation of the cloud these days uses the definition of cloud computing from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Jackson also emphasized the need for open standards when dealing with virtualization and cloud computing, an extremely welcome step, but we can start with VMware View, allowing it to be hypervisor independent.
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The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
By moving to a cloud model, companies benefit from using a common set of standards to connect different collaboration tools and applications from different vendors.
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The goal is to make the cloud more like Linux, that is, based on common standards, as opposed to becoming like Microsoft Windows, with one company in control, reaping most of the benefits.
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In fact, many cloud providers have strict security policies and procedures, and likely adhere to auditing standards such as SAS-70.
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Armijo says that several small cloud-computing firms including Elastra and Rightscale are already on board with 3Tera's standards group.
Vendors have started to provide customers with assurances that they are in compliance with security standards and patient-privacy laws, he says, and the advantages of cloud storage are likely to be increasingly persuasive, especially on the cost side.
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