It seems there is no shortage of standards and requirements principals for cloud computing, with the latest to join the fray being the Open Cloud Principles document just published by the Open Cloud Initiative at OSCON 2011. In early June 280 companies joined together as the Open Data Center Alliance and released a set of proposed standards for cloud providers. That was a day after the members of the Cloud Standards Customer Council announced a project to create a “Practical Guide to Cloud Computing.”
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