At The Open Group's Cloud Computing Summit held in San Diego in February 2009, both suppliers and customers of cloud computing services met to assess the technology and business models driving adoption of Cloud computing. The meeting identified the need for further progress on several issues including:

        •        Standards and portability
        •        Mappings to Business Architecture
        •        Security and privacy
        •        Multi-supplier and hybrid sourcing, management and governance
        •        Business analytics for cloud

In the intervening weeks, the Cloud Computing community has begun to coalesce on the need for organized effort to address these and other problems. A critical input to the decision on how to proceed will be the voice of the customers for cloud, who will provide validation of technical direction and ultimately, through their purchasing decisions, decide which cloud approaches will gain market acceptance.

To provide this necessary customer voice, The Open Group's Customer Council will be conducting a Cloud Computing Customer Requirements session during the London conference in London. The objective of this meeting will be to identify and priorotize issues for the cloud community, and make recommendations for the ongoing role of the Customer Council and The Open Group in cloud computing.