“Standards for cloud computing are an essential part of the cloud computing story, but are not without challenges,” said ZapThink principal analyst Jason Bloomberg. “Cloud computing takes virtualization to multiple levels, including data exchange, but also ranging across operating system functionality, application functionality, as well as service interfaces.”

Secondly, the working group will create cloud APIs and protocols for resource management so that cloud computing resources may be managed like the rest of an organization’s IT infrastructure, Bloomberg said. Quality-of-service policy management will be included in this effort.

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