The Object Management Group is holding the Cloud Computing Standards Summit July 13-15 in Arlington, VA, as part of their Standards in Government & NGO's Workshop.The Summit will focus on standards for government clouds. Participants include:
Peter Mell and Tim Grance - National Institutes of Standards
and Technology
Reuven Cohen - Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum)
Kevin Jackson - Dataline, LLC
Mark Carlson - Storage Network Industry Association
Winston Bumpus - Distributed Management Task Force
Robert Grossman - Open Cloud Consortium
Craig Lee - Open Grid Forum
Nils Puhlmann - Cloud Security Alliance
Douglas Johnson - Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
Jim Warner - TM Forum
James Odell - OMG SOA SIG Co-Chair, CSC,
Ralph Thrash - CSC
Recommendations from this summit will be made available to the July 15th, NDU IRM Cloud Computing Symposium attendees.
The establishment of compatible industry and government standards are crucial to the broad adoption of cloud computing. Just as standards allowed the global spread and enhanced the utility of the Internet, standards will drive the utility of the cloud computing paradigm.
Registration for this event is available at
http://www.omg.org/registration/GOV-WS/css/index.htm
