There is no shortage of groups working on cloud standards, but there are questions about whether enough thought has gone into the fundamental direction and impact of standardisation, says Lori ...

GovRAMP, the state and local government cloud cyber program, now includes 70 participating governments, 33 states and around 400 private sector members.

Cloud-computing standards discussions tend to focus on technical standards. But users most care about standards in the sense of minimal best practices. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology will host a Cloud Summit on May 20 with federal agencies and the private sector with the intent to develop data interoperability, portability and ...

Cloud computing is still in its infancy and standards need to be developed around the emerging technology, several experts said today at the Strategies and Technologies for Cloud Computing ...

Just try creating a definition of cloud computing that’s broad enough to encompass all its permutations and narrow enough to provide technical guidance on how to get one cloud talking to another. “At ...

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Cloud Standards Customer Council™ (CSCC™) has published version 2.0 of Public Cloud Service Agreements: What to Expect and What to Negotiate. The guide contains a ...

According to one study conducted by the CSA and the IEEE, the evolution of cloud computing has increased the need for cloud-specific security standards. The CSA-IEEE survey of hundreds of IT ...

A major systems-management standards body has formed a group dedicated to developing open management standards for cloud computing. The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), whose board includes ...

Cloud security is still one of the key hindrances in adopting cloud computing services, especially as pertaining to the public cloud. With the public cloud market expected to triple from $12.1 billion ...

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Cloud Standards Customer Council™ (CSCC™) has published an update to the guide, Cloud Security Standards: What to Expect and What to Negotiate. The guide is an ...