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Standardization

Standardization

Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781466646834|ISBN10: 1466646837|EISBN13: 9781466646841
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4683-4.ch004
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Lucio Grandinetti, et al. "Standardization." Pervasive Cloud Computing Technologies: Future Outlooks and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, IGI Global, 2014, pp.75-96. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4683-4.ch004

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L. Grandinetti, O. Pisacane, & M. Sheikhalishahi (2014). Standardization. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4683-4.ch004

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Lucio Grandinetti, Ornella Pisacane, and Mehdi Sheikhalishahi. "Standardization." In Pervasive Cloud Computing Technologies: Future Outlooks and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4683-4.ch004

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Abstract

The importance of cloud computing standards is the same as the World Wide Web standardization. There are plenty of prevalent standards around cloud computing that make different aspects of cloud computing possible. Standardization is a key answer and solution to the main question in this book (i.e., whether cloud computing will survive and remain on IT trends track or not). Standardization will bring interoperability, integration, and portability to the cloud computing landscape. With these three features, the main elements of IT (i.e., computation and data) can move from one cloud provider to another. Therefore, it eliminates vendor lock-in that is one of the barriers in cloud adoption. In addition, cloud interoperability will minimize cloud fragmentation. We need interoperability and portability to achieve cloud federation and to build hybrid cloud. In addition, there is still no de facto standard for moving workloads or data among different clouds. Cloud standardization needs to be addressed at various layers of a cloud infrastructure such as: virtual machine format, data, interface, context, and identity layers. This chapter reviews the emerging standards from the perspective of various organizations and standard bodies.

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