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Standardization Activities

around Cloud Computing

11th Northeast Asia OSS Promotion Forum

November 13, 2012

Matsuki Yoshino, Ph.D.

Japan OSS Promotion Forum

Cloud Technology WG/

IT Platform Division Group, Hitachi Ltd.

Japan OSS Promotion Forum, 2012 ©, All rights reserved.

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1. Current Status of Cloud Computing

2. Current Status of Standardization

Table of Contents


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1. Current Status of Cloud Computing


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Gartner has identified five cloud computing subtrends that will be

accelerating, shifting or reaching a tipping point over the next three years

and that users must factor into their planning processes:

1. Formal Decision Frameworks Facilitate Cloud Investment

Optimization

2. Hybrid Cloud Computing Is an Imperative

3. Cloud Brokerage Will Facilitate Cloud Consumption

4. Cloud-Centric Design Becomes a Necessity

5. Cloud Computing Influences Future Data Center and

Operational Models （press release: Gartner Outlines Five Cloud Computing Trends That Will Affect

Cloud Strategy Through 2015 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1971515 ）

1.1 Analyst’s View of Cloud Trend


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Upon resource shortage at

Cloud1, Cloud2 provide s

resources to Cloud1

A client uses multiple

cloud services including

public and private clouds

and on-premise systems.

A cloud broker provides

services which combine

multiple cloud services.

Use Cases (from DMTF white paper)

excerpt from :http://dmtf.org/sites/ default/files/standards/documents/ DSP-IS0101_1.0.0.pdf


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Social cloud Resource sharing

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ITS cloud

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Elderly person support cloud

Smart city cloud Market place

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welfare center Doctor

Monitoring center

Monitoring center

Social cloud will be composed of multi clouds, such as medical cloud, Smart grid, etc.

If we want to access to social clouds services, we access them through original cloud.

Social clouds have a market place that have much application and species social data.

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1.3 Social Cloud by JOPF


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Retail &

Logistics Road

Railway Energy

Enterprise

1.4 Hitachi’s View of Evolution of IT

Cloud computing is to be applied to IT systems for social infrastructure .

These IT systems are to be connected to create innovative values to society.


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1.5 Necessity of Standards

For efficient implementation and operation of

Hybrid Cloud, Inter-Cloud, Cloud brokerage.

Standards for interface of management,

provisioning, deployment, measurement,

logging, authentication and so on are

necessary.


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2. Current Status of Cloud Standardization


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ITU-T

2009 2010 2011 2012

ISO/IEC

JTC 1

SC38

FG-Cloud

2013

SC38/SGCC

SG13/WP6

SC38/WG3

▲FG established (2010/2 TSAG mtg.)

▲ FG-Cloud closed(2011/12)

SG13 is assigned as lead SG

▲ (2012/1 TSAG mtg.)

SGCC closed, WG3 established

▲ (2011/9 SC38 plenary mtg.)

SGCC established

▲ (2009/11 JTC 1 plenary)

▲SG reorganization?

(2012/11 WTSA)

2012/5 SC38 plenary mtg.▲

2012/7 TSAG mtg. ▲

Status of de jure Standards 2-1.

JCA ：Joint Coordination Activity

SGCC：Study Group on Cloud Computing

CT on Vocab/RA

JCA-Cloud

2012/6 SG13mtg. ▲

ITU & JTC1 Collaboration Teams

▲ are established(2012/9)


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2.2 ISO/IEC JTC1 SC38

ISO/IEC JTC 1: Joint Technical Committee 1

Established in 1987. JTC 1 is the standards development

environment where experts come together to develop

worldwide Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

standards for business and consumer applications.

SC38: Distributed Application Platforms and Services (DAPS)

Established in 2009 for following target technology area.

– Web Services

– SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

– Cloud Computing (Convenor : Seungyun Lee(Korea))


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2.3 ITU-T FG cloud

ITU(International Telecommunication Union) is one of United

Nation’s organizations as IMF, ILO, FAO, WHO, WIPO,

WMO etc.

ITU-T is an organization in charge of standardization within

ITU, formerly called CCITT.

FG(Focus Group) is formed for research of latest

technologies.

FG-cloud was established in Feb. 2010 and closed in Nov.

2011.

Study Group 13 - Future networks including mobile and

NGN has taken over work of FG-cloud.


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2.4 Collaboration of JTC1 and ITU-T

Currently ISO/IEC JTC1 SC38 and ITU-T SG-13

establish Collaboration Teams for “Common text”

standards regarding following issues.

1. Definition and vocabulary on cloud

2. Reference architecture of cloud


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2.5 DMTF(Distributed Management Task Force)

Founded in 1992 as Desktop Management Task Force.

Major accomplishments include:

• CIM(Common Information Model)

Object model for IT resources to be managed.

• WBEM(Web-Based Enterprise Management）

CIM based management technology in distributed

environment.

• DASH(Desktop and Mobile Architecture for Systems

Hardware）

Management interface for desktop and mobile devices.

• SMASH(Systems Management Architecture for Server

Hardware ）

Management interface for servers.


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2.6 DMTF - OVF

OVF specification is submitted to JTC1 and

ratified as ISO/IEC 17203:2011 in Nov.


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CIMI(Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface):

REST interface for IaaS level Management.

The first version was published in August 2012.

CIMI Provider

(Cloud Entry Point)

Systems Machines Volumes Networks

CIMI Core Resources

2.7 DMTF - CIMI


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2.8 OASIS (1)

OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of Structured

Information Standards

Founded in 1993.

TOSCA: Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud

Applications

Defining XML Schema for service description for enhancing

portability of cloud applications and services.


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Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP) TC

Standardizing cloud PaaS management API

Cloud Authorization (CloudAuthZ) TC

Enabling contextual attributes and entitlements to be delivered to Policy Enforcement Points in real time

Identity in the Cloud TC

Developing profiles of open standards for identity deployment, provisioning and management in cloud computing

Open Data Protocol (OData) TC

Simplifying data sharing across disparate applications in enterprise, Cloud, and mobile devices

2.9 OASIS (2)


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2.10 Cloud Security Alliance

Founded 2008 for promotion and education of

best practices of cloud security.

Published reports:

「Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud

Computing」 (2009)

「Top Threats to Cloud Computing」(2010)


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2.11 SNIA(Storage Networking Industry Association)

Founded in 1997 for education, promotion and

standardization of storage networking.

SMI-S(Storage Management Initiative Specification):

realizing multi-vendor interoperability of SAN

DMTF CIM is used in SMI-S.

CDMI：Cloud Data Management Interface）: RESTful

interface for create/retrieve/update/delete operation for

DaaS(Data as a Service) cloud.

ISO/IEC 17826 Information technology -- Cloud Data

Management Interface (CDMI) is ratified in Oct. 2012.


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2.12 OGF(Open Grid Forum)

OGF was formed in 2006 by merging GGF(Global Grid

Forum) and EGA (Enterprise Grid Alliance)

OCCI：Open Cloud Computing Interface

IaaS level API(deployment, auto-scaling, monitoring, etc.)

OpenNebula and OpenStack, open source support OCCI.


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2.13 IEEE

IEEE SA(Standards Association) is famous for

network standards, IEEE 802 series.

Cloud Profile WG(CPWG)

IEEE P2301, Guide for Cloud Portability and

Interoperability Profiles

Intercloud WG(ICCWG)

IEEE P2302, Standard for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation


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2.14 GICTF(Global Inter-Cloud Technology Forum)

Founded in 2009, to promote standardization of network protocols and the

interfaces through which cloud systems interwork with each other, and to

enable the provision of more reliable cloud services than those available

today. A use case from GICTF white paper


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2.15 Closing Remarks

• So many standardization activities around cloud.

• Standard interfaces are necessary for hybrid cloud,

inter-cloud, and cloud brokerage.

• So far, major cloud vendors, like Amazon, Google,

Salesforce.com do not care about standardization.

• EC2 interface is a de facto standard.

• De jure standards and adoption of standards by

OSS cloud stacks may change the situation.


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Thank you!

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