The good news is that there is a lot talk about standards as it relates to cloud computing these days. The bad news is that a lot vendors are talking to a lot of different standards bodies about ...

The key issue unfolding at that time was the transfer of risk that resulted from moving to a cloud environment and the obstacles to security, performance and licensing that would need to evolve. But ...

The Open Cloud Consortium is a newly formed group of universities that is both trying to improve the performance of storage and computing clouds spread across geographically disparate data centers and ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- Mar 01, 2010 IEEE, the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology, and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit ...

Microsoft Corp. is joining a group led by cloud-computing rival Google Inc. to collaborate on standards for software that can run on multiple computers and networks. Microsoft Corp. is joining a group ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A group of 38 companies and academic groups have signed on to a so-called Open Cloud Manifesto, calling for open standards for cloud computing. The document echoes a recent paper on ...

Can you hold Payment Card Information (PCI) data in a cloud-based service? Yes, but doing so isn’t straightforward, so the PCI Security Standards Council has published a guideline that clarifies what ...

Look at the cloud computing services out there — then consider the fact they all have their own definition of an API. Clearly, we need standard cloud computing APIs. Enterprises are concerned because ...

The Open Cloud Consortium is trying to improve cloud performance and promote open frameworks that will let clouds operated by different entities work seamlessly together Everyone’s talking about ...