Executive View: Cloud standards and advice jungle - 70641

Cloud computing is one of three dimensions in which organizations are moving towards an economy based upon the interconnection IT services. This idea is described in KuppingerCole Advisory Note 70532 “The Open API Economy”. This success of this economy and hence of cloud computing depends on the availability clearly defined interfaces; standards have a key role to play in achieving this.

Cloud services are built using a technical architecture that may include both proprietary and standard protocols and interfaces. Many of these standard protocols and interfaces are already available and indeed form the basis of cloud connectivity. However the services themselves have significant proprietary content and this can make the costs of changing provider high...