In our recent BLOG on "Cloud Computing - Limits to Growth" we discussed the issue of the 'Service Boundary' that needs to be understood when considering integrating Cloud Services into the IT and business landscape.
A number of useful standards are becoming available that provide more consistency of Cloud terminology, reference architectures and .... service management. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has just published two useful guides to Cloud terminology and architectures.
Specifically, these are:
- ISO/IEC 17788:2014 Information technology -- Cloud computing -- Overview and vocabulary
- ISO/IEC 17789:2014 Information technology -- Cloud computing -- Reference architecture
... available for download and use now, and for which a fee is required.
And the following, which are currently in draft and under review:
- ISO/IEC CD 19086-1 Information technology -- Cloud computing -- Service level agreement (SLA) framework and Technology -- Part 1: Overview and concepts
- ISO/IEC NP 19086-2 Information technology -- Cloud computing -- Service level agreement (SLA) framework and Technology -- Part 2: Metrics
- ISO/IEC NP 19086-3 Information technology -- Cloud computing -- Service level agreement (SLA) framework and Technology -- Part 3: Core requirements
It will be interesting to see how the issues that we raised in our BLOG will be addressed in these standards. As ever, the best way to influence this is to participate in the standards development process. Failing that, we recommend that you 'watch this space' as the standards emerge.