Toward an Open Cloud Standard

  • Authors:
  • Andy Edmonds;Thijs Metsch;Alexander Papaspyrou;Alexis Richardson

  • Affiliations:
  • Intel Labs Europe;Platform Computing;Technische Universität Dortmund;VMware

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Today's cloud ecosystem features several increasingly divergent management interfaces. Numerous bridging efforts attempt to ameliorate the resulting vendor lock-in for customers. However, as the number of providers continues to grow, the drawback of this approach becomes apparent: the need to maintain adapter implementations. The Open Cloud Computing Interface builds on the fundamentals of modern Web-based services to define a standardized interface for cloud environments while enabling service providers to differentiate their service offerings at the same time.