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 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 ...

Coming from a technical background, when I hear the word "standards," I tend to think of things that usually go by strings of numbers (802.11), inscrutable abbreviations (USB), or at best a slightly ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. (X9) and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) have entered into a formal liaison agreement. The CSA is a not-for-profit ...

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 ...

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ITU-T's focus group on cloud computing has completed its preliminary study into cloud computing's standardisation ecosystem and has released a seven part report on cloud computing standardisation. The ...

For the practice to become widespread, the federal government must develop common processes to ensure agencies don't duplicate inefficiencies from data centers. Standards for security, ...

The IEEE - which now bills itself as "the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity" - is taking steps to bring global standardisation to cloud computing with what it ...

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 ...