Cloud Ecosystem
CategoryCloud Computing Standards
The Cloud Ecosystem of an enterprise provides critical enabling capabilities to meet growing market demand for greater business agility. Cloud Computing guidelines and reference models serve as a framework for implementing solutions for cloud service providers and consumers.
Standards Overview
Managed Applications and Shared Services
Cloud Computing allows users to conveniently rent access to fully featured applications, to software development and deployment environments, and to computing infrastructure assets such as and processing power and network-attached storage. A number of IT standards governing bodies issue recommendations on how to provision and maintain cloud infrastructure to maximize the efficiency of their essential characteristics.
The following publications provide guidance on architecting and building Cloud Computing environments:
- ISO/IEC 17788 — Cloud Computing - Overview and Vocabulary
- ISO/IEC 17789 — Cloud Computing - Reference Architecture
- ISO/IEC 19086 — Cloud Computing - Service Level Agreement (SLA) Framework
- ISO/IEC 19941 — Cloud Computing - Interoperability and Portability
- ISO/IEC 19944 — Cloud Computing - Cloud Services and Devices
- ISO/IEC 22678 — Cloud Computing - Guidance for Policy Development
- Migrating Applications to the Cloud
- Migrating Applications to Public Cloud Services
- Interoperability and Portability for Cloud Computing
- Convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud
- Best Practices for Cloud-enabled Workforce
- Practical Guide to Cloud Computing
- Practical Guide to Hybrid Cloud Computing
- Practical Guide to Platform-as-a-Service
- Practical Guide to Cloud Management Platforms
- Practical Guide to Cloud Service Agreements
- Public Cloud Service Agreements
- Cloud Customer Architecture for API Management
- Cloud Customer Architecture for Big Data and Analytics
- Cloud Customer Architecture for e-Commerce
- Cloud Customer Architecture for Enterprise Social Collaboration
- Cloud Customer Architecture for Hybrid Integration
- Cloud Customer Architecture for Internet of Things
- Cloud Customer Architecture for Mobile Applications
- Cloud Customer Architecture for Securing Workloads
- Cloud Customer Architecture for Web Application Hosting
- NIST SP800-145 — The Definition of Cloud Computing
- NIST SP800-146 — Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations
- NIST SP500-291 — Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap
cloud
Cloud Ecosystem participants are not necessarily aware of all other entities in the environment but will affect or be affected by them.
Cloud-based application services are securely exposed with the appropriate level of abstraction, and hide their implementation details.
A multi-tenant Cloud Computing model supports client and solution isolation among multiple service consumers.