The meeting included:
- A Cloud Work Group Orientation session
- A presentation by Steve Riley of Amazon on Cloud Security from
the Provider's Perspective
- A presentation by Michael Harkins on the Cloud Business
Use-Cases Project
- A presentation by Penelope Gordon on Cloud Taxonomy
- Presentations from Mark Skilton on Cloud ROI Models and Cloud
Service Delivery Models
The orientation session showed the Work Group as an active body
currently engaged in four projects:
- Cloud Business Use-Cases
- Cloud Business Artifacts
- Cloud Architecture Framework
- Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure
Approval of a fifth project was being balloted at the time of the
meeting (it is now approved):
A sixth project is under consideration:
- Cloud Computing Explained
These projects were formed (or are forming) based on the work of nine
initial teams that investigated different aspects of Cloud Computing
over the summer of 2009, just after the Work Group was started.
Most of the work is conducted by teleconference and using two web
resources: the Cloud Work Group Plato Page, which is used for formal
material such as procedure descriptions and output documents, and the
Cloud Work Group Members' Wiki, which is used for work-in-progress.
The Work Group aims also to collaborate with people and bodies
outside The Open Group, and has established the Cloudsters Wiki for this
purpose.
The orientation session was followed by a presentation from Steve
Riley of Amazon on Cloud Security from the Provider's Perspective.
The ideas in this presentation are described in an AWS Security White
Paper. It covered the approach taken by a particular Cloud vendor
(Amazon) to address security threats and availability issues, and gave
an excellent insight into this topic.
The rest of the meeting addressed some topics arising from Cloud Work
Group projects. It did not give a balanced coverage of these projects,
but focused on particular areas of interest of the meeting participants.
These related mainly to the Cloud Business Use-Cases and Cloud
Business Artifacts projects, and to the proposed Cloud Computing
Explained project.
Michael Harkins (IBM) gave a presentation on the Cloud Business
Use-Cases project. This project has already assembled a significant body
of material. Its focus is on business, as opposed to technical,
use-cases, and it is co-operating with the Open Cloud Manifesto Cloud
Computing use-cases group.
Penelope Gordon (IBM) presented slides on cloud
business taxonomies. While this is relevant to – and may be taken up by
– the proposed Cloud Computing Explained project, its primary aim is to
be a deliverable for the Cloud Business Artifacts project ("CC
Metadata for Business Enablement"). It is also a valuable input to
the Cloud Computing Use-Cases.
Mark Skilton (CapGemini) gave presentations on Cloud Deployment
Models and Cloud Computing ROI. These presentations contain ideas and
input on these topics for the Cloud Business Use-Cases and Cloud
Business Artifacts projects.
It had been intended to give at least an overview of the Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure and Security in the Cloud
work, and to discuss forward Work Group planning but, as the meeting
drew towards its end, it was decided to complete the discussions on the
material that was presented, rather than to break into them, so that
these topics were not addressed.
